Sub not ultimate dive watch?

[Goodwatch]

The Sub is often referred to as an ultimate dive watch, if not THE ultimate. But is it? I’m not questioning the design, sturdiness and treats as a dive watch. It is the more or less exclusive price range this watch is in. I know but a few divers: my colleague, a hobby diver, a buddy who’s a Navy diver and my neighbor, who’s a diver with the local fire brigade. None of them wear a Rolex! All of them, all be it coincidental, wear a Citizen dive watch in various guises and a two of them a separate dive computer. The Citizen has an electronic depth gauge that they use as a backup for the one in the dive computer.

In one of the first James Bond novels the Sub was described as an affordable watch. A bit butch but waterproof. The affordability is long gone now and a humble fire brigade diver cannot afford a Rolex but is issued with a Citizen.

The only professional organization and it’s divers I know of that wear Rolex watches are French Comex. All the others I know that wear a Sub are no divers at all and I’m an armchair diver myself. (Fully certified).

What’s your opinion or experience on/with this?