Ok, perhaps it’s not the utmost dive watch. Still, the updated Rolex Deepsea Ref 126660 is absolutely up there. Or down there, instead, with the greats. Water immune to a crazy 3,900 meters, has been over-engineered to the max. Currently, Rolex had undertaken some refined updates on its not-so-subtle sea beast as it continues its quest for mechanical dive watch supremacy. Keep reading to learn what’s transformed.

Sixty-Years in The Making

The Rolex Deep sea Ref 116660 made its epic launch in 2008. It was, and still is, the most significant steel-sports-watch by Rolex. The instance measures 44mm in size, as well as is rather hefty on the wrist, being around 18mm thick. It represents the result of everything Rolex has gained from over sixty years of structure first-rate diving watches. A trip that started with the Rolex Submariner in 1953.

The Submariner was the first scuba divers’ watch waterproof to a deepness of 100 meters, or 330 feet. This used an early insight into Rolex’s technical capacities as well as aspirations. It was the Rolex Sea-Dweller, that would lay the foundation wherefore would end up being the Rolex Deepsea.

The original idea for the Rolex Sea-Dweller was created combined with COMEX. The French company focused on design, as well as deep diving procedures in the 1960s. At the time they required a diving watch for their professional divers to utilize whilst dealing with deep-sea oil wells.

To satisfy this demand Rolex modified normal Submariner watches, ref. 5513, to incorporate a helium escape shutoff, an innovation patented by Rolex in 1967. The result was a certain recommendation created for COMEX, ref. 5514. Following on from the success of this project, a new version fitted with helium getaway shutoffs, the Sea-Dweller Ref. 1665, concerning the market in 1967. These were targeted at specialist deep-sea divers. The preliminary model was water immune to 2,000 feet, or 610 meters, a remarkable accomplishment at the time.