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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.
Aroogah-
I believe the bidirectional functionality was to make it easier to time and reset navigational waypoints while underwater. That’s also why the original FXD has a countdown bezel.
I fully understand the purpose of a unidirectional count-up bezel on a divers watch, I just didn’t understand why they had changed to that more conventional design on this new version, when that was part of the FXD’s raison d’etre. But then I read the marketing guff about US military spec divers watches and it makes sense.
Regal
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.