It sounds like what you’re looking for is more than just a watch, maybe something between a watch and a computer. If you own your own gear or are thinking about buying it, a dive computer would be worth considering. I have an Oceanic DataMax Pro Plus. It’s air-integrated and shows tank pressure, depth, bottom time, and time remaining based on the no decompression limit or air consumption, whichever is shorter. It also has audible alarms for low air and overly rapid ascent. If you don’t want to go that far, something like the Citizen Hyper Aqualand can do all of the things you descibed. The link below shows some examples of dive computers and watches, but brace yourself, they aren’t cheap. The watch is over $300 and the computers are over $400. There are cheaper watches, but they don’t have the ascent rate alarm.
By the way, regarding the question of owning all of your gear versus renting, unless you live near the ocean you might be better off just renting the gear when you travel. That’s what I would probably do if I could do it over again, but I’d still own my mask, snorkel, fins, and wetsuit. The rental of the rest of the gear is included in the price of a dive at many shops, and sometimes you only save $10 to $20 off of that by having your own gear. If you’re going to rent the BC, gauges, etc., a good multi-function watch like the Hyper Aqualand or a non-air-integrated computer like the Mares Nemo or Oceanic Geo would be a good choice.
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It sounds like what you’re looking for is more than just a watch, maybe something between a watch and a computer. If you own your own gear or are thinking about buying it, a dive computer would be worth considering. I have an Oceanic DataMax Pro Plus. It’s air-integrated and shows tank pressure, depth, bottom time, and time remaining based on the no decompression limit or air consumption, whichever is shorter. It also has audible alarms for low air and overly rapid ascent. If you don’t want to go that far, something like the Citizen Hyper Aqualand can do all of the things you descibed. The link below shows some examples of dive computers and watches, but brace yourself, they aren’t cheap. The watch is over $300 and the computers are over $400. There are cheaper watches, but they don’t have the ascent rate alarm.
By the way, regarding the question of owning all of your gear versus renting, unless you live near the ocean you might be better off just renting the gear when you travel. That’s what I would probably do if I could do it over again, but I’d still own my mask, snorkel, fins, and wetsuit. The rental of the rest of the gear is included in the price of a dive at many shops, and sometimes you only save $10 to $20 off of that by having your own gear. If you’re going to rent the BC, gauges, etc., a good multi-function watch like the Hyper Aqualand or a non-air-integrated computer like the Mares Nemo or Oceanic Geo would be a good choice.