What are Automatic Watches

Automatic Watches are mechanical watch that  has the capabilities to “automatically” wind itself when worn. A watch that winds itself by your wrist’s motion? It may sound a little confusing. Here is how the thing works:

As your wrist and body moves, a rotor that is attached to a winding mechanism, rotates freely according to its’ staff in the center. Even your wrist’s slightest movement rotates the rotor back and fort. Thus, it winds the mainspring. This mainspring is a flat coiled spring that provides power to automatic watches.

Other terms that refer to automatic watches are “perpetual watches” and “self-winding watches”.

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Since sport watches are supposed to provide maximum durability, then these features such as long-life battery, shock-resistant, and water-proof are common to find in any brands. But for those who fond to diving activities, the durability limit has to be extended.

Important Features for Diver Watch

Dive watches hold a very important role for most divers, because it’s not being used merely to help  you telling the time, but also to ensure the safety of scuba divers. They also look cool and are popular with men and ladies. Here are the features to look out for:

• Track dive time, to maintain alert on air-supply.
• Provide you with time decompression stage, usefull during the process of ascending to the surface (you know the water presure can cause problems when mishandled).
• Scuba divers don’t dive to 200 meters but 200 meters water resistance is generally considered to be the minimum for a diving watch.

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