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Probably. Unless it isn’t. That’s kind of the deal with vintage.
Specifically, if you were to replace the crystal, crystal gasket, crown and case back gaskets it’d almost certainly be waterproof as long as there’s no pitting along the mating surfaces. But if you’re running a vintage acrylic crystal you probably shouldn’t chance it.
You can have original parts or you can have as-new levels of waterproofing, but you can’t have both. People dove with acrylic crystals for decades, they are perfectly capable of delivering fantastic performance, but you can’t get performance like that with an acrylic crystal from the 1970s. You have to put in a new one.
It's fundamentally a tool watch designed to get wet and dirty. Just keep up with the maintenance. I did replace the acrylic with crystal as a matter of preference (optical clarity). And had my steel bracelet repaired for stretch from wear typical of watches its age.
I do wear around the house, swimming, snorkeling... haven't taken it diving as I prefer my Panerai.
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You can get it tested for water resistance at a watch shop (they’ll probably have to send it out though). If you were actually going to dive with it though, I’d want to get it serviced like mentioned above so you had new seals.
Personally, I’d never scuba with a vintage watch that I didn’t already have in my possession for a decade or more. Just buy a beater diver or a modern sub if you want total confidence.