The Dive Watch Connection

Hey All,

I picked up this vintage Scubapro 200m diver a while back to go along with some of my other old scuba branded watches. I don't have any really useful info on this particular scubapro model other than it is an M.R.P.S.A case and it has a quartz movement used by a lot of the older quartz Heuer divers. I love my Scubapro 500 but i'm always surprised how much I enjoy the smaller 200m. I remember getting it and being impressed that it was larger than I anticipated and very thin at right around 10mm thick. The dial combination of gold and black along with the PVD case is a great combination that I don't have with any other of my watches. I also love the bracelet, it looked really bizzare in the photos when I bought it, but its just a super long bracelet that you loop through one end and has a little latch that fits into the bracelet. I love that the date wheel has the gold dates on a black date wheel. A small detail, but they all make for a cool watch. enough of my blabbering, onto the watch! If anyone does have any info about this particular model, i'd love to hear it. I ran across a thread where a guy said he bought one new in 1984 (i think) but his was a silver version, not the black and gold.

As a bonus I added a photo of another obscure Scuba branded diver. It's an old quartz 200m Pro-dive branded watch that I bought missing the bezel insert but running great for $50, my twin brother who also collects some old divers helped me do some recon and internet sleuthing and we turned up this old Croton branded diver that turned out to have the same case, same hands, same sized bezel insert and it was on a bracelet. So i bought the Croton as a donor and now my old obscure "Pro-dive" has a nice bezel insert as well as a bracelet and some donor parts if the need ever arises. It was a fun journey piecing it together and makes for a pretty fun addition some of my obscure divers.

That’s awesome, great post. Love these obscure divers

Very cool.

Very nice. Welcome.

Nice - I agree the gold number on the black detail are tits... Great score!

Nice collection of vintage divers.

Thanks everyone, I’m glad you guys enjoy them as much as I do!

Nice collection!

Very cool, have never seen that 200m Scubapro. I searched for a long time before buying a Seiko 6306 Scubapro. Finally found an almost new original on a Japanese auction site and waited quite awhile to get it. It’s probably one of the most faked vintage Seiko’s and pretty hard to find the real deal.

I’ve never seen your model before.

I bought my Scubapro in 1986 and wore it for 20 years. Still ticks but I don’t use it for diving. A PO 8900 is now on my wrist when I’m in the water.

I’ve never seen that 30atm model before either (although the case does seem similar to a “Submarex” branded diver I’ve seen before).

It’s awesome that you bought it new and used it for diving, I’m sure it’s earned the retired life and can let the PO have the fun now. Thanks for showing your Scubapro!

TernGully wrote:I’ve never seen that 30atm model before either (although the case does seem similar to a “Submarex” branded diver I’ve seen before).

It’s awesome that you bought it new and used it for diving, I’m sure it’s earned the retired life and can let the PO have the fun now. Thanks for showing your Scubapro!

Since getting into watches a few years ago it’s now hard to believe that I wore the same watch for 20 years. But with all the memories attached to this watch it is by far the most valuable in my collection.

My first real watch was a 80's Rolex Datejust, I still have it to this day even though I rarely ever wear it as its small and and my wife wears a 36 mm DJ LOL. I will NEVER sell it! I will pass it on to my son someday (along with a Hulk I bought the day he was born in his name and bday sitting in the coffin in my safe unworn). I hope he will appreciate those two pieces the most as the DJ is my first, I wanted it and worked hard to make it happen and the Hulk shows I was thinking about his future one the day he was born.
Some watches we can never sell even if we do not wear as they mark a special moment.

I had 3 Scubapro 500's a year or so ago. Now down to 1.