![]() If you're not down too far for too long, the amount absorbed will dissipate harmlessly topside, but if you stay deeper longer, enough nitrogen is dissolved into the blood and other body fluids that, if you ascend too fast, bubbles will form (just like taking the top off a soda). Recreational scuba divers breathe a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen, and when you dive, you absorb nitrogen into the bloodstream. If you're into dive watches, you probably know the reason you need to decompress if you go below a certain depth for more than a certain time. The decompression timer is used to tell you how long a decompression stop you'll need if you exceed the no-decompression limit of staying at 59 feet for 50 minutes. The signature feature of the Ocean Star Decompression Timer (and of course, its ancestor from the 1960s) is the brightly colored decompression table on the dial. ![]() I don't follow this particular segment of the vintage collectible watch market tremendously closely, but it looks as if these somewhat rare and very colorful vintage divers retail for close to the $10,000 mark these days – a considerable premium over most other contemporary Mido watches, it would seem. As a result, the Powerwind 1000, whose name refers to its 1,000-feet/300-meter water resistance (this without a screw-down crown, apparently), has become a very popular collectible for dive watch enthusiasts. The watch was not in production for all that long, going out of production in 1965. 5907, from 1961 – it was part of the Ocean Star line, which launched in 1959, right about the time that recreational scuba diving was really taking off around the world. The original version of this watch was the Powerwind 1000, ref. The news that Mido has been planning on bringing it back has been out for several days, as of this writing, and so far, the consensus seems to be that Mido has hit a home run, and I see no reason to offer a counterargument (which would be difficult to sustain anyway). This is probably one of the more hotly anticipated summer releases.
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