Its been pointed out before that those of you who want to know the date can buy a newspaper. The idea of any tool watch, other than a GMT, having a date is preposterous. You take it out of wherever you store it use it for the intended task and put it away again. If that task is taking longer than today, it is almost certainly taking too long.
I’m a late convert to the PRS-18 in its current guise and find it utterly charming. That’s precisely because it is a task focussed tool and nothing else. Knowing that there was something even slightly less task focused in the same line would diminish my watch in my eyes.
There are are plenty of alternatives avalible with; days, dates, even a perpetual calendar. Can I respectfully suggest that those with a weakness for a date on their dive watch look elsewhere?