Casio Duro
A Coast Guardsman at Air Station Kodiak, just back from a search and rescue case. A person in the water in Prince William Sound. "After hours of searching, we found our survivor," he writes. The crew hoisted the rescue swimmer down to the water, a direct deployment to the survivor. "Resulting in saving his life." On the wrist for it, a Casio Duro. The fifty dollar quartz diver, rated to 200 meters. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Casio Duro
The Duro is the best kept non-secret in dive watches. The MDV-106 has been in Casio's catalog since 2011, a 200 meter rated quartz diver that costs about fifty dollars. The marlin on the dial is not decoration. Casio puts it on its 200 meter divers, and owners just call the watch the Marlin.
The reputation was earned the honest way. Its unidirectional 120 click bezel gets compared to watches costing twenty times more, and it is the rare budget piece that owners of Submariners recommend without irony. Bill Gates wearing one in public only told the mainstream what working wrists already knew.