Ratio Free Diver Helium-Safe 1000M Sapphire Automatic 1068HA96-34VA-BLU Men’s Watch
My wife Anne came home the other day eyes shining, all excited and placed a small box in front of me. Go on open it, she said. I did so and found a beautiful dive watch. It was the Ratio Free Diver Helium Safe Men’s watch.
As a marine biologist, I spend much of my hours in the salty waters of the deep blue sea. Most of the times it is research around the shallow waters but occasionally it is deep sea diving as well. A dive watch is an essential part of my work gear and I also own a professional dive watch which accompanies me in the waters. Anne thought I should have one more dive watch and so here it was, the Ratio Free Diver Helium-Safe Sapphire Automatic 1068HA96-34-VA-BLU Men’s Watch.
The Ratio is not a known brand, I had not heard much about it. Anne had picked up the piece because she liked the overall look. Amazing how folks who don’t even go near water are fascinated by dive watches. Perhaps it is due to the rugged good looks of these tool-like pieces or that they are so much in the limelight with their pictures plastered all over the media. Whatever the reason, but there’s no denying that dive watches are an extremely popular choice.
There is a wonderful collection of Ratio watches on display here at:https://www.downunderwatches.com/shop/ratio/. These are extremely well-built dive watches with just the right features useful to a professional diver.
I wouldn’t call the Ratio Free Diver a beautiful watch although the simple and clean lines are quite appealing. Another plus point in its favour is the lack of imitation of design traits of other iconic dive watches. I doubt you’d find any watches similar to the Ratio Free Diver – they seem to be one-of-a- kind designs.
Not many dive watches feature the helium safe valve and those that do, cost several times more. 1000m water resistance, a strong luminosity which is a must in murky deep waters, a sapphire glass to protect from hard impacts and a dependable Japanese automatic movement make the Ratio Free Diver an affordable option for a dive watch.
The best part about Ratio brand is that it has manged to strike a good balance between price and quality. Watches with similar features from other brands costing several thousand dollars are rarely affordable to us mere mortals. Ratio dispels these concepts with their affordable price range.
The only negative about this watch (if you could call it that) is that it is not a known brand. It however is a rather dependable, affordable and easily replaceable tool watch that does the job admirably.
My wife had made a good choice in picking up the Ratio Free Diver Helium-Safe 1000M Sapphire Automatic 1068HA96-34VA-BLU. Check out more options athttps://www.downunderwatches.com/
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In response to your request for a review on my purchase from DOWNUNDERWATCHES I can say the following, I address myself for this particular watches to DOWNUNDERWATCHES since they claim to be Australia's premier online watches store. This particular model is not available in store in Australia, not that I know off, therefore the advertised Australia's premier online watch store induce me to believe that the item was available in Australia but only from online orders. It turn out not to be so but from Singapore apparently. So, the claim that delivery is made within three days turn out to be three weeks. This detail should be indicated clearly to people in Australia. Other than that the delivery was made by DHL and the watch received in good condition some ten days latter. The watch is exactly as I expected it would be, well packaged, no complaint whatsoever to make about it. It would be better for the retailer to indicate that the delivery to Australia will required two weeks instead of saying next to day of dispatching leaving the impression that the goods is from an Australian distributor which physically it is not. Orient watches are not well represented in Australia by retailers if not at all. Seiko dominates the market amongst other brand. Orient is no more made in Japan as it was in the past, the factory with the name Epson is now in Thailand, the product is still of high quality and genuine as it has been expected from the original manufacturer in previous years from Japan. Epson has absorbed the brand name Orient which remains nevertheless a high quality product originally exclusively from Japan. Orient watches are of high quality until today.
Hi Patrice,
Thank you for taking the time to share your detailed feedback. We’re glad the watch arrived in good condition and met your expectations. We also appreciate your notes about delivery times and origins—this helps us improve how we communicate shipping details for our Australian customers.
The watch was as good as I expected, being refurbished and works accurately with minor blemishes. "Downunderwatches" is Singapore based, so I was surprised to have to pay additional fees for the foreign import.
Hi Herman,
Thank you for your feedback. We’re glad to hear the watch is working well and meets your expectations. We understand the surprise with the import fees and appreciate your understanding regarding international shipping.
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