
Charles Dower
Head of sale, Knightsbridge
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Head of sale, Knightsbridge
Bulova decided to set the depth rating of its first ever diving watch at 666 feet, a rating that would survive for nearly 20 years. These 'devil divers' as they were nicknamed greatly surpassed the depth rating of the very first diving watches that could only go as deep as 300 feet. In the 1960's 200 metres (around 656 feet) was an awfully long way down and scuba diving as a recreational activity, not a military one, was relatively new. Indeed by 1961 the deepest anyone had ever dived was 133 metres.