What time is it? Watches and horology

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Aroogah in reply to @Regal

Hey, they also made the bezel unidirectional. For some reason

Umm. It's a dive watch. No?

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Regal in reply to @Aroogah

The FXD, when it first came out, was supposedly designed to the MN’s specs, which included a fully minute-marked bidirectional bezel. They didn’t want unidirectional. So all the FXDs up to this point have been bidirectional (and therefore not an ISO-compliant divers watch).

Seems this one is meant to comply with US army specs, hence unidirectional.

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Aroogah in reply to @Regal

Ah. Still. Not sure why that is a surprise then.

From a safety standpoint, as a recreational diver you only want the unidirectional bezel if you are relying on your watch to track time. Not sure what advantage you get out of bi-directional for military use.

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