In September I finally got a dive watch. For ages I wanted to get a Citizen Aqualand and I tried buying one in Lanzarote. In fact, my dive mentor at the dive centre drove me all over the island looking for one but they were all double ticking indicating that the batteries were flat. The trouble with dive watches is that for batteries to be changed they have to be pressure tested.
In the UK this can cost around £50 to have the work done.
Anyhow, my dive mentor, took the time recently to help me get some cash back from an Instructor Development programme (another story to be told another day).
The funniest situation occurred when we went into a shop and asked the shop tender for the price of the watch I was interested in. He said "220 euro's". I explained that I can buy the same watch down the road for 180. The guy asked me to think about the price and he would do likewise.
When he returned to the counter, he said, "I will give you a 20 euro discount. The price is therefore 220 euros". I said "No, that's the price you already gave me." He denied it saying he had started negotiations at 240. It was ridiculous and I walked out.
As it turns out I bought the watch online at Deep Blue. It was exactly £190 and the battery is brand new.
Here are images of the watch and in particular the funky box it came in. Very nice.
The best thing about the Citizen Aqualand watch is not that it logs you last four dives, has an alarm, has a wonderfully useful stopwatch, nor that it can give you the ambient temperature at any one time, but its blue and its shiny. Oooohhhh shinnneeeeyyy!
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