Description
Certina has long been the Swatch Group's value-diver specialist, and the DS Super PH2000M, announced 18 June 2026, pushes that brief to a new extreme. This is a saturation-grade diver rated to a colossal 2,000 metres in a grade-2 titanium case — and it still comes in under CHF 1,300. The launch piece is a Sea Turtle Conservancy (STC) limited edition, dressed in a turquoise-gradient dial, with part of the proceeds donated to ocean conservation.
The number on the dial is the headline: 2,000 m is double the depth rating of most "serious" dive watches, and pairing it with titanium and a sub-CHF-1,300 price is exactly the kind of value play that has defined Certina's recent run.
Design
The 43 mm grade-2 titanium case is 16 mm thick — inevitable for this depth rating — and carries a helium escape valve at 9 o'clock for saturation diving, with a screw-down crown and a unidirectional bezel topped by a black ceramic insert. The STC limited edition's gradient turquoise dial fades to black at the periphery and is protected by a domed sapphire crystal; a wide sword-and-arrow handset and applied indexes are filled with Super-LumiNova, while an orange minute hand provides the accent. It ships on a teal-blue silicone strap with a titanium folding clasp and an integrated wetsuit extension offering 15 mm of on-the-fly adjustment.
Specifications
- Model: Certina DS Super PH2000M Sea Turtle Conservancy (STC) Limited Edition
- Case diameter: 43 mm
- Thickness: 16 mm
- Case material: grade-2 titanium
- Bezel: unidirectional, black ceramic insert
- Crystal: domed sapphire
- Crown: screw-down; helium escape valve at 9 o'clock
- Water resistance: 2,000 m
- Dial: gradient turquoise to black, sword-and-arrow handset, orange minute-hand accent, date at 3, Super-LumiNova
- Movement: Powermatic 80.611 (ETA 2824 architecture) — not in-house
- Hairspring: Nivachron (anti-magnetic)
- Power reserve: 80 hours
- Strap: teal-blue silicone, titanium folding clasp with wetsuit extension (15 mm adjustment)
- Limited edition: 1,959 pieces (STC founding year + DS-concept launch year)
- Price: CHF 1,235 incl. VAT / USD 1,440
- Cause: part of proceeds donated to the Sea Turtle Conservancy
- Availability: 2026
What's Exciting
This is value engineering at its most literal. A 2,000 m titanium diver with a ceramic bezel, sapphire crystal, Nivachron hairspring and an 80-hour power reserve for CHF 1,235 is, frankly, absurd value — the kind of specification sheet that would cost three or four times as much from a luxury brand. The Powermatic 80.611 isn't an in-house showpiece, but it's a proven, anti-magnetic, long-running workhorse, which is exactly right here. The Sea Turtle Conservancy tie-in, with the 1,959-piece run nodding both to the STC's founding year and the DS concept's debut, gives the watch a purpose beyond the spec race.
History
Certina's DS — "Double Security" — concept dates to 1959 and established the brand's identity around robustness: reinforced cases, gaskets and shock protection built for real-world abuse. The PH (Plongée Hyperbare) diving line carries that ethos underwater, and the DS Super PH2000M is its most extreme expression yet, doubling the depth rating of the earlier PH1000M. The Sea Turtle Conservancy partnership, previously seen on the more accessible PH1000M STC edition, returns here on the brand's deepest-rated diver.
