Christopher Ward x seconde/seconde/ C60 Pool Diver: A Dive Watch for the All-Inclusive

Most dive watches take themselves very seriously. Christopher Ward and seconde/seconde/ have made one that takes the pool very seriously instead. Announced on 11 June 2026, the C60 Pool Diver is a tongue-in-cheek summer special built on the brand's latest C60 Trident Reef — a real 200m diver with a real Swiss automatic inside, dressed up as a guide to doing absolutely nothing by the water. It is the kind of watch that grins at the entire genre while still being perfectly happy to go for a swim.

It is also a sequel. This is the second collaboration between Christopher Ward and Romaric André, the designer behind seconde/seconde/, following the sold-out C65 Desk Diver of 2024. Where that one skewered office life, the Pool Diver turns its sights on the annual holiday — and on the watch enthusiast who insists on pressure-testing a 200m dive watch in a 1.8-metre hotel pool.

The Concept: A Self-Improvement Seminar by the Pool

The whole watch is one extended joke about the all-inclusive holiday, and the dial is the punchline. The matte white, sandblasted face is split into five coloured zones, each one prescribing a poolside activity and its recommended duration: READ, SUNBATHE, RELAX, FLEX and CONTEMPLATE. Each zone has a matching pictogram on the white ceramic bezel, so the unidirectional bezel — normally there to time your air supply — instead times how long you should lie in the sun before the "nice tan / skin damage ratio" tips the wrong way.

Then there is the date window, except it isn't one. In its place sits a little martini glass labelled "MAX UNITS PER DAY" — seconde/seconde/'s gentle reminder that the only thing you really need to keep track of on holiday is the cocktail count. It is a complication of sorts, just not a useful one.

Not the First Time: From Desk Diver to Pool Diver

If the humour feels familiar, that is because Christopher Ward and seconde/seconde/ have done this before. In 2024 the two released the C65 Desk Diver, a limited run of 500 pieces built on the C65 Aquitaine that reimagined the dive watch for office survival rather than the open water. It shipped in a box stuffed with the staples of corporate life — branded pencils, paper clips, Post-it notes, highlighters and board pins — and despite plenty of raised eyebrows, it sold out in days.

The Pool Diver is the direct follow-up, and the two watches talk to each other. The caseback is a reworked version of the Desk Diver's pictogram: the flippers become flip-flops, the paperclip "oxygen tank" becomes a bottle of sun cream, and the diver now clutches a mocktail instead. The engraving's safety warning has been updated to suit the new setting too — "PLEASE, DON'T DRINK AND DIVE." For a tropical touch, the helium-escape valve is laser-etched with a tiny desert-island motif.

The Watch Underneath Is Serious

For all the gags, the hardware is the genuine article — this is a fully specced C60 Trident Reef, not a toy. The stainless steel case measures 41mm across, 11.45mm thick and 47.8mm lug-to-lug, with a slim, modern profile that wears smaller than the diameter suggests. Water resistance is a proper 200m (20 ATM), the white ceramic bezel is unidirectional, and the box-domed sapphire crystal gets anti-reflective treatment. Super-LumiNova (Grade X1 BL C1) keeps the markers glowing once the sun goes down on all that contemplating.

At 68g for the head alone (around 120g on the bracelet), it is a light, easy-wearing 41mm — the sort of proportions that disappear under a linen sleeve or over a swimsuit equally well.

The Movement: Sellita SW200-1

Inside ticks the Sellita SW200-1, the dependable Swiss automatic that powers much of Christopher Ward's accessibly priced catalogue. It runs at 28,800 vph (4Hz), carries 26 jewels, hacks the seconds for precise time-setting, and offers a 38-hour power reserve. It is not an exotic in-house calibre, and it doesn't need to be — the point of this watch is the wit on the dial and the dependability beneath it, and the SW200-1 delivers the second part without drama.

Straps, Fit and Wearability

The Pool Diver comes two ways. The reference shown here — C60-41ADA31-POLD-B0 — rides on Christopher Ward's three-row Bader bracelet, the more polished and everyday-versatile option. Alternatively it can be had on a white, blue or orange Aquaflex rubber strap, which leans harder into the poolside brief and is the natural choice if the watch is genuinely going to get wet.

On the wrist, the combination of a 41mm case, sub-12mm thickness and a 47.8mm lug-to-lug makes this one of the more wrist-friendly divers in its class. It suits roughly 16–19cm wrists comfortably, and the bright white dial-and-bezel pairing keeps the whole thing feeling like summer regardless of which strap you pick.

Price and Availability

Here is where the Pool Diver differs from its predecessor. The C65 Desk Diver was a fixed limited edition of 500; the Pool Diver instead is a limited-period release. It was unveiled on 11 June 2026, and Christopher Ward is only taking orders during a short pre-order window — the brand's own message is blunt about it: "Order before June 24th." Get your order in before that date and it's yours — miss it and it's gone.

Pricing breaks down as follows:

The C60 Pool Diver is the rare novelty watch that doesn't ask you to compromise on the watch itself. The dial is a joke; the diver it's printed on is not. If the Desk Diver proved there was an audience for Christopher Ward and seconde/seconde/'s sense of humour, the Pool Diver doubles down — and this time, you only have two weeks to get in on it.

Official page: christopherward.com — C60 Pool Diver