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http://www.watchtime.com/featured/dive-watch-defined/

Quite interesting, I thought.

"ISO 6425 has been around in its current form since 1996"

but quite useless as well then , since 'dive watches' have been around for 60 years and the ISO standard only for 19 ?

are all watches intended for diving produced before 1996 suddenly no longer 'dive watches' ?

ohh those silly questions

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It's all about timing. Pardon the pun. Nothing before the release of a standard can be expected to comply to a later level of compliance. That's why standards have an inception date. As Rene points out in this case, 1996.

Everything after that date either complies or doesn't. Standards just codify a common desire for all things to be at a certain socially or technically accepted level. It gives assurance on certain matters. So do dive watch before 1996 comply? Maybe, maybe not. Are they still dive watches? Yes. By dent of there right to exist.

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