Scuba Diving in the Cayman Islands with Two Longines Dive Watches

Welcome to Deep Dive, in which we test dive watches both new and vintage beneath the waves in some of the world's most beautiful locations This time, we're in the Cayman Islands with the Longines Legend and Heritage divers, modern recreations of vintage Swiss classics Field testing dive watches means going scuba diving, and that's what we did recently with two modern recreations of Longines' first two dive watches, the Skin Diver and the Legend Diver.

Though vintage in style, these two watches are capable modern divers packed with modern automatic mechanical movements, bright-shining lume, 300m of water resistance, sapphire crystals, and corrosion-proof stainless steel The Skin Diver was Longines's first dive watch, issued in 1959 Longines developed the Legend Diver in the early 1960s as the follow up to the Skin Diver.

For us watch nerds the Skin Diver and the Legend Diver recreations are not only some of the best Longines watches being produced today, but some of the best historically accurate recreations on offer from any brand. . Source