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Dietmar Fuchs

About Dietmar Fuchs

I am the resident diver at Quill & Pad, competent enough to test any self-proclaimed diver’s watch to its limits. Not only do I submit these watches to the same pressures divers experience but I also explore their history and accomplishments on the wrists of real aquanauts.

If you want to know whether your favorite watch is fit for the greatest adventure outside of space travel, join me on my way down.

I was born in Germany’s Niedersachsen and raised in the Air Force in Bavaria and Texas, where I joined the high-flying boys. But I eventually figured out that the empty skies don’t hold as many adventures as the depths of the seas.

In the early 1980s, I spent four years as a dive instructor and boat captain in the Caribbean before returning to Germany to study marine biology and – big mistake – journalism. The latter never let me go. Combining my two biggest interests, I started publishing diving magazines and still do.

Watches have been my everyday partners all my adult life, first in the sky and later at the bottom of the sea. First as lifesaving instruments and later as cherished companions.

Watches and I make an inseparable pair under water, on land, and, yes, still in the skies. Diver’s watches tell me their secrets, reliving their greatest adventures on the wrists of accomplished divers.

Follow my writings and I’ll introduce you to the finest in diver’s watches and the greatest adventures of humankind under water.

Entries by Dietmar Fuchs

A Comprehensive Look At Mechanical Depth Gauge Watches

July 27, 2025/2 Comments/in Highlights, Oris, Blancpain, Divers' Watches, IWC/by Dietmar Fuchs

Depth matters. And as experienced divers often like to go deep for as long as possible, decompression is a serious issue. The problem with mechanical depth gauges on watches is that they are usually either precise at depth (but not in the 12-meter decompression zone) or in the decompression zone (but not at depth). Dietmar Fuchs takes a deep dive into mechanical depth gauge watches and shares his thoughts and experiences here.

The Diving Bezel: The Most Versatile Watch ‘Complication,’ Even if You are Not a Diver

July 25, 2025/3 Comments/in Highlights, Thoughts & Opinion, Divers' Watches/by Dietmar Fuchs

Thanks to its bezel, as Dietmar W. Fuchs explains, the diver’s watch is a much more versatile timepiece than many people think. Aside from teaching you how to use it on land, in the skies, and under water, here he answers the perennial question of who made the first true diver’s watch: Blancpain, Rolex, or Panerai.

Diving with the Ball Watch Engineer Master II Diver Chronometer

December 22, 2024/0 Comments/in Ball Watch, Highlights, Divers' Watches/by Dietmar Fuchs

When Ball Watch asked Dietmar Fuchs to test dive one of the company’s newest watches, the Engineer Master II Diver Chronometer, he hesitated at first. Ball didn’t jingle a diving bell for him, but something else from its history jangled: a brand’s “history” section is always the first thing he checks before testing a watch and he discovered Ball Watch has the credentials. So he dove in and now shares his experience and thoughts on the watch here.

Diving with the Ball Watch Engineer Master II Diver Chronometer

December 17, 2023/1 Comment/in Highlights, Divers' Watches/by Dietmar Fuchs

When Ball Watch asked Dietmar Fuchs to test dive one of the company’s newest watches, the Engineer Master II Diver Chronometer, he hesitated at first. Ball didn’t jingle a diving bell for him, but something else from its history jangled: a brand’s “history” section is always the first thing he checks before testing a watch and he discovered Ball Watch has the credentials. So he dove in and now shares his experience and thoughts on the watch here.

A Comprehensive Look at Mechanical Depth Gauge Watches – Reprise

November 25, 2023/0 Comments/in Highlights, Divers' Watches/by Dietmar Fuchs

Depth matters. And as experienced divers often like to go deep for as long as possible, decompression is a serious issue. The problem with mechanical depth gauges on watches is that they are usually either precise at depth (but not in the 12-meter decompression zone) or in the decompression zone (but not at depth). Dietmar Fuchs takes a deep dive into mechanical depth gauge watches and shares his thoughts and experiences here.

Real-World Diving With The Seiko Prospex The 1968 Automatic Diver’s Modern Re-Interpretation Limited Edition SLA055 – Reprise

October 22, 2023/0 Comments/in Highlights, Divers' Watches, Seiko/by Dietmar Fuchs

As a fan of the extraordinary Seiko Prospex 1000, Dietmar Fuchs took the limited version of the reinterpretation of a famous Seiko diving watch diving and shares his real-world experience with it here.

Diving in Polynesia with the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Tech Gombessa: It’s Designed for Long-Duration Deep Dives, So That’s What We Did!

July 10, 2023/2 Comments/in New for 2023, Highlights, Blancpain/by Dietmar Fuchs

Diving in French Polynesia to test the new Blancpain Tech Gombessa? Somebody has to do it and her Dietmar Fuchs shares the experience and what he thinks are the pros and cons of this new technical dive watch.

The Diving Bezel: The Most Versatile Watch ‘Complication,’ Even If You’re Not A Diver

July 5, 2023/3 Comments/in Highlights, Thoughts & Opinion, Blancpain/by Dietmar Fuchs

Thanks to its bezel, as Dietmar W. Fuchs explains, the diver’s watch is a much more versatile timepiece than many people think. Aside from teaching you how to use it on land, in the skies, and under water, here he answers the perennial question of who made the first true diver’s watch: Blancpain, Rolex, or Panerai.

Diving With The Ball Watch Engineer Master II Diver Chronometer – Repise

January 15, 2023/4 Comments/in Highlights, Affordable Luxury, Divers' Watches/by Dietmar Fuchs

When Ball Watch asked Dietmar Fuchs to test dive one of the company’s newest watches, the Engineer Master II Diver Chronometer, he hesitated at first. Ball didn’t jingle a diving bell for him, but something else from its history jangled: a brand’s “history” section is always the first thing he checks before testing a watch and he discovered Ball Watch has the credentials. So he dove in and now shares his experience and thoughts on the watch here.

Real-World Diving With The Seiko Prospex The 1968 Automatic Diver’s Modern Re-Interpretation Limited Edition SLA055

November 25, 2022/6 Comments/in Affordable Luxury, Divers' Watches, Seiko/by Dietmar Fuchs

As a fan of the extraordinary Seiko Prospex 1000, Dietmar Fuchs took the limited version of the reinterpretation of a famous Seiko diving watch diving and shares his real-world experience with it here.

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