I pretty much wore it full time for 19 years before I decided a larger mechanical timepiece was going to be my new watch. For a while, I wore my new Aquaracer for a week and then swap back to me S/el for the next week, but that was just a hassle. So, my S/el sat in a safe except for when I was training; I would wear my chronograph during a run to time my cardio time. The aim was to run the same circuit and try to improve my times, my chronograph was a pretty good run timer.

As I was a dive guide and dive instructor, this was my dive watch. I was decompression diving back then pretty regularly and used the chronograph to time decompression stops. This was an excellent dive watch, the chronograph function so so important for him at that time. When the battery ran out, I had the battery removed and placed the watch into retirement. This won’t be permanent retirement; at some time in the future, I will look to power up my old S/el again and this timepiece will get some wrist time again.