It’s ok to throw around the term diver’s watch, but it’s worth noting what we mean exactly, particularly when we’re specifically looking at the best dive watches under $1,500. Simply put, a divers watch is a timepiece designed to be submerged in water. Obviously, it needs to be waterproof. Even a cheap dive watch needs to be watertight. We’d usually expect a dive watch to also be legible and to often have a rotating bezel to manually time a dive.

If you’re in the market for a dive watch, there are a few important elements to examine – you don’t want a watch that looks the part but can’t deliver.

This list of the best dive watches under $1,500 has been collated by Man of Many’s experienced teams of watch writers and reviewers. In addition to reviewing the technical specifications of each timepiece on this list, we also turned to the wider public for their overall ratings. Our list takes into account three major perspectives to determine the overall rating. In addition to our own opinions, we take into account reviews via watch review sites A Blog to Watch and Chrono24. Each watch identified in the list was measured on: