Orient

Orient Men's CEV09002B Wide-Calendar Black Automatic Watch

• Quality Japanese Automatic movement; Functions without a battery; Powers automatically with the movement of your arm
• Genuine Leather Band
• Wide Calendar

Product Description

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This diver's watch will satisfy both professionals and diving enthusiasts who seek the genuine equipment for deep diving. There are many different types of diving, including skin diving such as snorkeling, diving with equipment such as scuba diving, and specialized diving for deep-sea salvage or drilling underwater oilfields. This product is aimed primarily at the specialized diving used for deep-sea salvage and oilfield drilling and compatible with saturation diving. To fully understand this watch, we must first explore the effects of saturation diving and the requirements of a saturation watch, which you can read down further below.

This watch has time and power reserve indicator as their major functions. At full charge, the watch’s power reserve is 40 hours, which means who can wear it every other day. The Power Reserve indicator, which you can see near the 12 position on the dial, is a guage that lets you know how much power the spring has, in useful units of hours. The dial color is black and has large luminescent hour indexes so that the user can read the time underwater. The crystal used in this watch is over 5mm in thickness.

This watch has a special case design that prevents the penetration of helium gas. This means that the internal pressure hardly rises at all, eliminating the need for an escape valve. The diver no longer has to use a valve to adjust the pressure inside the case when diving or surfacing.

The watch has a water resistant design that is effective up to a depth of 300 meters (984 feet), with a strong exterior made from "SUS316L" material, which has excellent corrosion resistance. The caseback is screwed in by design with Orient’s traditional lion emblem, which requires a special caseback opener.

The watch has a large crown and rotating bezel, which makes it easy to operate even when wearing gloves. The band also comes with a new type of buckle that allows the watch to be put on in a one-touch operation. The buckle also is easy extendible, so that that you do not need to constantly resize the watch for your wetsuit. As well as when worn directly on the wrist, it also fits well over a wide variety of diving wear.

What is Saturation Diving? Normally, a human breathes in an environment of atmospheric pressure (1 atmosphere). When pressure increases during a dive, inert gases from the air (such as nitrogen and helium) are breathed in and absorbed in the body's tissues. Nitrogen is particularly dangerous because when a large amount is absorbed in the bloodstream it has a narcotic effect. Even worse, nitrogen forms bubbles in the blood during decompression and may result in death. With saturation diving, prior to a long dive the diver is exposed to helium instead of the dangerous nitrogen. The driver's body absorbs as much helium as possible to create a safe saturation condition in his/her body.

To create this condition before a saturation dive, the diver enters a DDC (Deck Decompression Chamber) on the surface together with his/her equipment (including his/her watch). In this chamber, the pressure is increased as required in a mixed-gas atmosphere of oxygen and helium. The diver then moves to a predetermined water pressure in an SDC (Submersible Decompression Chamber), from which he emerges to perform the required work. When returning to the surface, this procedure is reversed to slowly decompress the diver.

What is a Saturation Diving Watch? If a watch with a regular water resistant design is worn during saturation diving, small helium gas molecules could penetrate the gasket and enter the inside of the watch. This would raise the internal pressure and break the watch when surfacing. To resolve this issue, most watches either have an escape valve that is used to adjust the internal pressure as required, or use materials in watch parts such as the gasket that make it difficult for the helium to penetrate.

The Orient Story

The Orient Story The Orient Story Orient Watch was formally established in July 13th, 1950 in Tokyo. Orient Watch has focused on mechanical watch making, specializing in self-winding watches using only our in-house movements. Orient is considered one of the "Big Three" watch companies in Japan, but what sets them apart from the competition is that they have dedicated themselves in the advancement of mechanical watch making. The Orient Watch Company produces their mechanical movements in-house at their facility in Japan. These movements are dedicated for the use Orient's own mechanical watches. This list of industry abnormalities with the consideration of being one of the most affordable choices makes Orient an exceptional experience in the world of time keeping, and yet remains as one of the most obtainable. Orient is a brand unlike any other... It is profoundly unique. Orient In-House Movements Orient Watch is known throughout the world as Japan's mechanical watch. The center of Orient's philosophy is to be and remain a true watch maker accessible to all. In practice, this means an unyielding determination to design, manufacture and assemble the best mechanical movements. Now after 59 years, Orient’s passion for the art of time keeping has led to becoming the largest mechanical watch manufacturer in Japan. Orient 1 YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY - Located in Los Angeles, California, Orient's American Service Station provides owners with a Warranty and Repair office now in the USA.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001EWEQB2
• Item model number: CEV09002B
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,256 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Orient, very pleased, May 28, 2009

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Relaydog (Curacao, Caribbean) - See all my reviews

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Ok, just picked it up. It was running from the box (guess was wound due to transport). Only minor dislike is color of band. Would have liked it a bit darker brown. May replace it later on. VERY quiet, almost no ticking (or I'm going deaf).
Rotor is also quiet. Like the dial color and the crystal. Good finish.
Dial is a greyish black, nice! Overall, happy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Basically good watch, September 12, 2009

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Henry Haslebacher "Doktor Z" (Charleston, WV) - See all my reviews
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This is a good watch. It has an attractive face, similar to a Rolex Datejust. I like the full name display of the day of the week. It gains or loses about 3 seconds per day which is pretty good for a self-winding watch. It benefits from being put away at night resting on its edge. It has no manual wind feature. You shake it back and forth a few times to start it if it has stopped. The only think I would criticize about it is the band, not very attractive in my opinion. I replaced it with a 19 mm band cordovan leather band from another watch, which improved the appearance considerably.

4.0 out of 5 stars great automatic watch, September 10, 2009

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Mark Twain "Mark" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This is my first automatic watch. I am very happy with it. I had heard good things about Orient, this watch looked attractive, and the price very reasonable. So I went for it and am very happy -- it's a beautiful looking watch (the picture is accurate; at first I didn't like the relatively light colored alligator leather band, but now I do). I was concerned about automatic watches running fast or slow, but so far it's been very accurate, maybe just picking up a few seconds (I've had it for a week). Overall highly recommended for an affordable self-winding watch, great for the office and every day.