Just in from FedEx...

[Me116]

Wow, I usually don't like that kind of thing, but in this case (see what I did there) I am actually really liking it.

[Andrema]

Thanks!

[shameless]

The FedEx man delivered my new Aegir CD-1 diver today. It is the grey dialed version...here are a few quick shots:

had to google that one -'Concept Diver ' - just wondered why the extra 1metre ? maybe to match the '1' above ? nice clean look to it anyway

[Vincent Vega]

Hey Peter... good to see your here too.

701 meters is exactly 2300 feet (I guess that's what they had in mind?).

Take Care,
Robert

[Aegir]

Hey Peter... good to see your here too.

701 meters is exactly 2300 feet (I guess that's what they had in mind?).

Take Care,
Robert

I never actually checked it in feet. It is in fact a 1000M case, to go a few % past its rated limit.
Mark has copied and pasted the reason why it was chosen. I was a little tired of seeing the marketing gimmicks of 2000 and so on, and decided also to educate a little on those dives, while I was doing it.
A 3000M watch will not make any difference to you, except being heavier on the wrist.

[Andrema]

From the Aegir website:

"701M was chosen as the water resistance for all of our models, bringing about some awareness to commercial diving in the process and most of all in homage to the insanely heroic chamber dive of Theo Mavrostomos in 1992 breathing hydreliox, which holds the record for the deepest dive. These depths are not commercially viable and such a dive will not be attempted again, unless it sets out to break the record for records sake, nor is any company set up these days with a system capable to try it."

http://aegirinstruments.com/?page_id=38