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What is the hot topic these two weeks? Of course is the hot weather everywhere! In such hot days, people like to swim or diving. These are always the most funny things that can be done in summer.

What is summer to you? To me, this is an almost perfect time to get some energy before the next winter strikes. In our latitude, it lasts from the second half of May and till the second decade of August, when days get progressively shorter and rains are too cold to run barefoot in the puddles. So, here we have basically around 100 days to recharge our batteries before another long and cold and dirty and slushy Autumn-Winter-Spring season.

The best way to speed up the process is to get your bags, buy a plane ticket and move south to the nearest sea resort. Whether it is Turkey or Montenegro or Spain or even Israel with its famous Dead Sea, there is one thing common for these places: there is a plenty of opportunities to ruin your everyday watch, whether it is a solid croum watches or a stainless steel Tissot. Whatever their official water resistance rating is, normal watches-both mechanical and those powered by quartz movements-do not like daily exposure to salty sea water, hot sun and abrasive beach sand.

It is clear, that, along with a set of diving gear and/or a trendy swimsuit, you also need to get yourself A.Lange & Sohne for sale that will be able to withstand the abuse a timepiece is a subject to when its excited owner is looking for troubles in the water.

First thing is, if you are into real diving, you don't want to waste your money on premium diving watches created by luxury watchmakers. Whether it is a Blancpain 500 Fathoms or an IWC Aquatimer or a Breitling SuperOcean or, God forbid, a Rolex Submariner, you don't need it however "professional" it looks on a well-photoshopped (or even 3D-modelled from scratch) images that you may encounter in this blog or in a glossy magazine.

If you don't want to find yourself without oxygen deep underwater, you don't have to spend around three to five thousand dollars for a premium brand watch only because it looks cool and is made in Switzerland.

All you need is a diving computer like Suunto D9 (around $1500) or D6 (less than $1000) and an inexpensive (well below $500) Japanese watch with either automatic or quartz movement (Seiko Black&Black Monster SZEN002 is my personal favorite in this range) with a similar depth rating, just to make sure. The rest of the money will be better spent for more reliable diving equipment.

When buying yourself a diving (or, actually, any) watch, one should always pay attention to five main components of any time measuring device. Namely,

1. Movement type. It can be either a high-grade quartz or a mechanical caliber with or without self-winding mechanism. The choice is really an esthetic one, provided that you have a real diving computer on your right wrist.

2. Case material. There is plenty of choices here, but the most popular is stainless steel or high-grade titanium. The s/s versions may be delivered with different kinds of decoration, such as PVD or gold-plating, but I would recommend sticking to the plain stainless steel or titanium models, because any kind of plating (if it is not a DLC treatment, which is quite expensive) will be prone to scratches.

3. Type of time representation. Although quartz and Blancpain for sale in most cases are supplied with analogue displays, there is also a number of watches sporting hybrid analog/digital displays. The extra LCD/LED display, which is usually located in the lower part of the dial, usually displays time in HH:MM:SS format, but can also be used as a second time zone indicator, alarm, chronograph, countdown timer, etc.

4. Band material. In this case, if you plan to use it as a diving tool, the choice is limited to stainless steel and titanium bracelets, as well as rubber, silicone or urethane.And finally.

5. Crystal. Crystal watches are loved by most girls. Crystal means pure. Most affordable Japanese watches come with different types of mineral glass, which is more prone to scratches, but is also harder to break. For those who want to have Patek Philippe for sale yet cannot afford them, crystal watches are good choices.