I love auto's or solar watches, especially in a dive watch. when the battery needs replacing in a watch rated to 200+ meters, good luck finding a shop that can replace it properly under pressure. Also, my biggest fear when planning a dive trip is that the watch battery will die while I'm in some far away location.
The Seiko is just a bit too heavy for me. I grabbed an Oris Titan. It's a little wider (44mm vs. 42.5mm), but it's a bit thinner (12mm vs. 13mm). The big difference is that the Oris is made completely from titanium, band and watch case. Picture below is with the changeable rubber strap, also pretty light. Once you get used to having a sizable dive watch, this thing disappears on your wrist.
For beating around I got a Citizen Eco-Drive, before they came out with these bad boys with the carbon fiber bezels. Wish I would've waited and picked up one of these. I think they're very cool looking!
i like your oris they are good looking well made watches, thats a good looking one ya got there, they are a lot more expensive than the monsters though.
imho for the $$ the monsters are hard to beat, i have an older '79 model seiko divers which i got new and its never ever had the back off and still runs fine,
the marathons are also a similar style watch albeit a little higher dollar watch (`$550 or so) ya also might consider.
another brand i like is sinn (i want a sinn acrylic chrono!) they also make some dang good looking watches, imho they are similar to oris.
