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@Greenbank
935 works very well for me, as did my old 920xt.
Never tried a Garmin Swim but I heard the work well too.
My local pool has Swimtag for its members. That's just as accurate, see if your local pool has something similar.
Otherwise I'd embrace the simple option of just swimming for X amount of time, either timed by a poolside clock or a cheap (waterproof) digital watch. Knowing exactly how far you've swum (and how many individual strokes, and individual length times) is nice, but utterly unnecessary in the grand scheme of things.
Most of my training swims now are either "swim for Y minutes" or complicated bunches of nonsense (2 x 25m lengths of pull followed by 4 lengths of left arm only, followed by ...etc...) that are written down on a bit of laminated paper and are easy to count at the time.