Seiko just released this news about teaming up with PADI (the Professional Association of Dive Instructors) to create two limited edition, PROSPEX brand dive watches.

PADI, originally founded just a few months after SEIKO released their first dive watches in 1965, is the world’s largest organization dedicated to diving instruction. I’m a PADI diver, and am currently going through the process of becoming a professional PADI instructor.

As part of the partnership, Seiko will be releasing two limited edition divers this autumn with PADI branding, the SRPA21K1 and the SUN065P1. The SRPA21K1 is powered by a mechanical automatic movement with manual winding, and the SUN065P1 uses Seikos proprietary Kinetic quartz movement.

If you haven’t come across it before, the Kinetic movement is like an automatic in that it charges the watch off of the movement of the wearers wrist, just charging a small battery instead of winding a mainspring.

The Seiko Prospex SRPA21K1