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SEIKO PROSPEX PROFESSIONAL 300M ‘TUNA’ | SRP: £1,300
Mark Evans: As we’ve explained before, Seiko has a rich heritage when it comes to dive watches, being at the forefront of technological developments for over 55 years, ever since launching its very first dive watch in 1965. In those decades since then, the company came up with market firsts such as the 1990 Scuba Master computerised dive watch, and the follow-up Diving Computer Watch in 2000 – a real precursor to the wristwatch-style dive computers we know today. However, Seiko know where their strengths lie, and so they have an epic line-up of dependable and desirable dive watches in their always-expanding Prospex range, but close to the top of the tree is the Prospex Professional 300m ‘Tuna.’Seiko like to give their watches fish or marinerelated names, and the ‘Tuna’ collection has been around since 1975 – this specific watch was named the ‘Tuna’ because of its larger diameter and bold shape (like a tuna tin). This collection goes beyond the simple dive watch, and is made with saturation divers and technical divers in mind (hence the 300m depth rating over the standard 200m). In fact, the very first Seiko monocoque diving watch was
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