@@MinuteMonim in 8th Grade aswell. I got intrested in watches last year when i recieved My grandfaters zenith surf automatic-watch. One thing led to another and i picked up a Seiko presage a few months ago and i like It.
It's actually a common misconception that the bezel was to measure oxygen. They actually measure elapsed time at depth so that you know how much decompression time is needed when surfacing. Too much time under too much water pressure is understandably not good for humans.
Or generally timing stuff underwater yes, measuring how long you have to breathe would be horribly inaccurate and useless as dive tanks have meters that will tell you how much is left
It’s about N2 saturation. The pressure gauge on the tank tells you how much air you use. It’s like you said, just adding the specifics of what makes it bad to stay too deep too long
@patrickandkennafenwick3958 exactly right, you need to know how to calculate N2 saturation and how long to time your decompression time as you slowly surface, and that's where the timing bezel can save lives.
Iv used it as a GMT function when traveling. Setting the 12 o’clock on the bezel to the 12 o’clock at my home. Then you read the hours off that bezel 12
That method is counting up to a certain time. I use it by counting down, let’s say for backing. I advance the bezel so that the pearl is 10 minutes ahead of my minute hand. I look frequently to make sure. When the minute hand surpasses the pearl, that time over my initial
I take a minimum 2 hour break from eating after each meal (part of my diet) so I set the bezel at the hour hand after I eat a meal to see how many hours passed from my last meal. [Hopefully it makes sense😅]
When you are under water, the pressure is higher than normally (you have the weight of all the water on top of you). The deeper you go, the higher the pressure (more water to push on top of yourself). Now, when pressure is higher, your body absorbs and retains certain gases. There are charts called decompression charts where you can check how long you can stay (regardless of air, which is another independent constraint) at a certain depth. Before diving you used to decide at what depth you would stay, and based on the table you knew hoe long was safe. Nowadays oat divers usually carry a “diving computer” that looks just like a digital watch, and it constantly calculates the time you can remain at the current depth
Im not sure if they did this before tanks had air guages or something, but the timer is used for timing bottom time in no-decompression diving. Your air has a guage on it (yes i even have the old guage from my dads gear he used in the 70s). You use air to determine turn around points, with a margin of safety of course.
I used it has a GMT hand, creating another timezone, I point the bezel to how many hours the other timezone is in offset, then div 5 or div 2 depending on the bezel the current hour I see against the bezel value.
Kindof funny that he says "This is how you are supposed to use your diver bezel" as he is rotating it with his left hand. If you are wearing the watch on your left (like normal, and how watches are designed) obviously you would use your right hand to turn the bezel.
I use it to tell how much time i have left on an exam, i set it on the minute that the time is over and i can see at a glance how much time i have left
Ughh, wrong. You don't estimate how much air do you have by time, but by pressure, usually 50bar being a limit. New divier will use way more air than exp one due to inflating/deflating BCD to keep neutral level (not going up or down), so sometimes 7L 200 bar can provide longer dive than 12L 200bar. Dive bezel is for keeping how long have you been under water, not how much air do you have! Back then by using max depth and time you would calculate N2 level in your body to make safety stops to avoid DCS (look "diving tables"). Now dive computers do it for you, but I'm still taking my watch for diving, for sake of tradition. DOXA watches even have double bezel that combine time and max depth for non-decopression dives - meaning that you don't have to make a safety stop/N2 level in your body won't cause DCS. Why N2 in your body is bad? Air is, more or less mostly O2 and N2. With higher pressure (going deeper, more water above you, you get it) more N2 can get into your tissues. Pressure at 20 meters depth is 30 bar (10 from atmosphere and 20 from water), so your body will be able to absorb more N2 (but absorbing takes time, its not instant, your tissues are not a sponge, thats why some deep dives sill can be without a safety stop). Now going to the surface N2 will leave your tissues, start to form bubbles and... Clog your blood stream, cresting DCS. Thats why some divers use trimixes, where % of O2 is same, but part of N2 is replaced with H2, because H2 is neutral for your body. Its way more complicated than "how much air do you have"
Very unlikely you would be diving Oxygen as that's only used for accelerated decompression. The bezel was originally used to track no decompression limits/ decompression stops and nothing to do with gas remaining in the cylinder.
I think watch fans should stop pretending like we buy watches for function. Like seriously we buy dive watches cuz they look cool and thats perfectly fine. We dont have to pretend like its got any functional advantage over casios, cuz it doesnt, and we dont need that to justify spending money on them.
Wrong! The bezel is used as a “bottom timer” has nothing to do with oxygen in the tanks, in fact, that’s also wrong, the tanks are filled with air…I’m a certified NAUI Advanced Diver
Or just follow the rest of the tour group and the dive master and enjoy the pina coladas on the boat after you've circled the reef a few times 40 feet down
I use mine for just the clicking sounds 😂😂
Exactly. Fidget spinner.
Tbh same
😂😂
I use it in school, I set it in the beginning of the period and can track how long has passed. I am in 8th grade and have a “submariner homage”
That’s awesome! I wish I was into watches in 8th grade
@@MinuteMonim in 8th Grade aswell.
I got intrested in watches last year when i recieved My grandfaters
zenith surf automatic-watch. One thing led to another and i picked up a Seiko presage a few months ago and i like It.
Hey what homage watch do you have?
@@toppy2610 I have a Pagani design submariner
In my junior year of hs and i do this too
It's actually a common misconception that the bezel was to measure oxygen. They actually measure elapsed time at depth so that you know how much decompression time is needed when surfacing. Too much time under too much water pressure is understandably not good for humans.
Or generally timing stuff underwater yes, measuring how long you have to breathe would be horribly inaccurate and useless as dive tanks have meters that will tell you how much is left
@Louiscare also very true on both points!
Yes. Exactly. A pressure gauge is used to measure remaining air in the tank
It’s about N2 saturation. The pressure gauge on the tank tells you how much air you use. It’s like you said, just adding the specifics of what makes it bad to stay too deep too long
@patrickandkennafenwick3958 exactly right, you need to know how to calculate N2 saturation and how long to time your decompression time as you slowly surface, and that's where the timing bezel can save lives.
Iv used it as a GMT function when traveling. Setting the 12 o’clock on the bezel to the 12 o’clock at my home. Then you read the hours off that bezel 12
I use mine to pretend I’m finding a radio frequency for my super spy watch. Work gets slow sometimes.
I rotate the bezel until the bus arrives
same
I use it to time my parking meter 😂
Use it to count the beers in the pub
That method is counting up to a certain time. I use it by counting down, let’s say for backing. I advance the bezel so that the pearl is 10 minutes ahead of my minute hand. I look frequently to make sure. When the minute hand surpasses the pearl, that time over my initial
Incorrect. The diving bezel is used to monitor your bottom time.
I use it along with the pomodoro technique when at work or studying
I take a minimum 2 hour break from eating after each meal (part of my diet) so I set the bezel at the hour hand after I eat a meal to see how many hours passed from my last meal. [Hopefully it makes sense😅]
Please explain using it during compression stops. As a non diver I've always been curious about that stuff
When you are under water, the pressure is higher than normally (you have the weight of all the water on top of you). The deeper you go, the higher the pressure (more water to push on top of yourself).
Now, when pressure is higher, your body absorbs and retains certain gases. There are charts called decompression charts where you can check how long you can stay (regardless of air, which is another independent constraint) at a certain depth. Before diving you used to decide at what depth you would stay, and based on the table you knew hoe long was safe. Nowadays oat divers usually carry a “diving computer” that looks just like a digital watch, and it constantly calculates the time you can remain at the current depth
@@TheKatubalthank you.
I only use my dive watch when going to a dive bar ✌️
Im not sure if they did this before tanks had air guages or something, but the timer is used for timing bottom time in no-decompression diving. Your air has a guage on it (yes i even have the old guage from my dads gear he used in the 70s). You use air to determine turn around points, with a margin of safety of course.
Man... That Jaeger Le Coultre at the end is Splendid!
I used mine at work. To time cycles of an anti corrosion process for metal parts.
I use my Casio Royale perpetual calendar for work. It has countdown timer, light, alarm. It's a do it all watch for $20.
Awesome information 👏
I used it has a GMT hand, creating another timezone, I point the bezel to how many hours the other timezone is in offset, then div 5 or div 2 depending on the bezel the current hour I see against the bezel value.
Cooking pasta, man!
I used it for monitoring at school. We needed to activate bell switch manually.
One class 45mins, break 10mins, lunch break 15 mins.
I use the bezel on my Pelagos to time swims or kayak laps, cooking, and breaks at work. I use it every day!
Kindof funny that he says "This is how you are supposed to use your diver bezel" as he is rotating it with his left hand. If you are wearing the watch on your left (like normal, and how watches are designed) obviously you would use your right hand to turn the bezel.
I read a commend on the Seiko Willard 6105 about how soldiers in Nam used the bezel to track distance, every 100 meters they click one on the bezel
If I have a 50 minute class, I’ll set the bezel and let it tell me when it’s over. For my longer classes over an hour I use one of my chrono’s
i use at school when i have a test so i know how much time i have left
What was that last watch? Looked sick
That Jaeger at the end!!! Wow
I use the gmt hand as a counter for parking.
For a Pomodoro style of study
It is very useful
Mate, the bezel doesn't sound an alarm when it runs out. I use my phone instead 😂
You are the best.💯👍
Apart from using it as a timer. I use the bezel to track a second timezone for work
You have a unique voice! i first thought it was TTS lol
Thanks! Who is TTS? Lol
I use it to tell how much time i have left on an exam, i set it on the minute that the time is over and i can see at a glance how much time i have left
Nowadays with all the modern dive gadgets, bezel in traditional watches has become the marketing tool: every buyer knows its function but nobody uses.
Cooking, break at work and as "stress reliever" in some situations
I mainly just use it as a fidget or if I have something at a time I’ll make it so it will point at the end point rather than the minute hand
I use it for random
timing @ rare times but mostly just for stress relief!
I used the bezel on my Tudor black bay to tune out the sections of the ACT
I use it while grilling
I use when im taking my lunch, gotta somehow get some use out of an ISO certified diving watch lol.
Really simple for playing timing my play and for school example i start it in first period or just timing how long is the class time
Commuting, as standard public transit fares purchase 2 hours of travel. With the savings, it covered the cost of my watch in no time.
what is the last watch?
Does anyone else use it at drive thrus to see how long you've been waiting 😂
I use to know how much time has passed since the last time I drink water. The only way to me to remind to hidrate 😂
I use mine when doing laundry. Very useful.
Hi MinuteMon, love the video. If you don't mind me asking, what camera are you using? Trying to learn for my own channel
Thanks! Im shooting on a Sony A7C, but any of those 4K mirrorless cameras will get a similar look, depends on your lenses too
@@MinuteMon thanks!
Used mine on the act, they were annoyed but it didn’t break the rules lol
Love how my bezel actually lines up. I throw shade on the crooked bezels of the world. 😂
Yeah but mine can measure half seconds :)
What Was The Last Watch Came in The Video ?? That Looks Super Cool
OMEGA Seamaster 60th Anniversary of James Bond
I don’t think I’ve ever used the dive bezel on any of the dive watches I own 😂 I’m basic as hell
anyone know the exact code of that Omega Seamaster? I like the color combo.
As a professional diver, I promise we use a dive watch along with a “dive computer” and it’s not by choice.
Ughh, wrong. You don't estimate how much air do you have by time, but by pressure, usually 50bar being a limit. New divier will use way more air than exp one due to inflating/deflating BCD to keep neutral level (not going up or down), so sometimes 7L 200 bar can provide longer dive than 12L 200bar. Dive bezel is for keeping how long have you been under water, not how much air do you have! Back then by using max depth and time you would calculate N2 level in your body to make safety stops to avoid DCS (look "diving tables"). Now dive computers do it for you, but I'm still taking my watch for diving, for sake of tradition. DOXA watches even have double bezel that combine time and max depth for non-decopression dives - meaning that you don't have to make a safety stop/N2 level in your body won't cause DCS. Why N2 in your body is bad? Air is, more or less mostly O2 and N2. With higher pressure (going deeper, more water above you, you get it) more N2 can get into your tissues. Pressure at 20 meters depth is 30 bar (10 from atmosphere and 20 from water), so your body will be able to absorb more N2 (but absorbing takes time, its not instant, your tissues are not a sponge, thats why some deep dives sill can be without a safety stop). Now going to the surface N2 will leave your tissues, start to form bubbles and... Clog your blood stream, cresting DCS. Thats why some divers use trimixes, where % of O2 is same, but part of N2 is replaced with H2, because H2 is neutral for your body. Its way more complicated than "how much air do you have"
Very unlikely you would be diving Oxygen as that's only used for accelerated decompression. The bezel was originally used to track no decompression limits/ decompression stops and nothing to do with gas remaining in the cylinder.
I think watch fans should stop pretending like we buy watches for function. Like seriously we buy dive watches cuz they look cool and thats perfectly fine. We dont have to pretend like its got any functional advantage over casios, cuz it doesnt, and we dont need that to justify spending money on them.
i use mine for relaxation 😂
I use mine when i fly to track time of the flight
What is that last watch? Jaeger Lecoultre
Yeah, I believe its a JLC Polaris.
JLC Polaris Perpetual Calendar, there’s a video on my channel on it a few weeks back!
@@MinuteMon gotcha I found it a couple hours back. Was determined to find out about that watch. Looks gd
I use mine to time how long winded people talk during meetings
When traveling across continents... different time zone tracking
The only creative way i feel is judt look at how cool the watch looks & adore it😅😂 no other need in todays time
Usually, it's not pure oxygen in the tank. Just for the record.
Me personally, I would just use it as a clicker fidget
I time IV infusions when my Sapphire pump fails.
I use it to remind me how long since we broke up
I use it as a reason to get upset at seiko😂 so i can stop myself from buying another of their watch
Since 2021, I’d used it to time my 15min Covid self-test kit on top of keeping track of my cooking in the oven.
Literally subbing cuz I never realized …
Can't we already tell how many minutes have passed without using the bezel ?
Not if you forgot where the minute hand was when you started timing.
I use it for fashion 😂
I bake. So there’s that
What if you bunp it all.yhe way around
I dont think a mere bump can do that
Wrong! The bezel is used as a “bottom timer” has nothing to do with oxygen in the tanks, in fact, that’s also wrong, the tanks are filled with air…I’m a certified NAUI Advanced Diver
Instructions unclear not able to locate diver bezel on my g shock
Just keep pushing buttons, you'll find it eventually
I use my bezel to time how long the amusement ride lines take
My casio moves to and fro
when i pop food in the oven amongst all the other things
99.9999 percent of people use it to kill time
To time each half of a football game
Restaurants. If it takes 23 mins i complain
Making bread usually, or to see how long my kid is in the shower.
Nonsence. You measure time spend on specific depth, so you know your decompression needs
Cooking
No. You use a dive computer. If you value your life.
Or just follow the rest of the tour group and the dive master and enjoy the pina coladas on the boat after you've circled the reef a few times 40 feet down
Arabic dail
Ok now why the HELL am i jut realizing the use of this featyre after so many years of collecting...
I use mine for Cooking and car parks but best of all, how long ive locked my kids from the bathroom while i take ages in the shower.
That last JLC is nice.