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I totally agree

 

This is the main thing I really found odd when I came to watches at the beginning. As you say, it is totally misleading, for a "normal" client but even for someone who knows a little about watches.

That's why I made a post about this issue, before summer, this week-end.

On the other time, I imagine it would be very difficult to make a standard chart, for all brands of course, that would take into account a soft spalsh or a harder one, swimming gently or diving etc...

Maybe too much different situations and very difficult to create standard testing for...

As you say, this is not the issue a seller talks necessarily when a client is taking delivery of his new piece and there should, as you suggest, certainly be a more detailed explanation of what it can or can't do.

You only have this information if you ask for it (which I imagine 99% of the clients don't think about doing).

I think it is the same issue with the death zone for date settings bewtween 9 or 10pm and 1 or 3 am.... It is nearly a secret.

Cheers, Mark


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Sorry guys, no Patek today (3800 inside)

 
By: Thy1r : June 11th, 2016-03:59
I went for a swim with my 2yo son. And the Royal Oak is just the perfect watch for this IMHO This message has been edited by JC/ on 2016-06-11 04:02:18...  

Sorry for you

 
By: Thy1r : June 11th, 2016-04:52
But happy for me because I take great care of my watches and stuff in general (as I have many other passions and collectibles), but I have one big guideline which is : wear all your watches, drive your vintage cars, play your rarest guitars, drink your fi... 

I am totally agree with you as you must enjoy life as much as possible because it is too short (I am talking like an old man ;-)

 
By: Alkiro1 : June 11th, 2016-07:01
But, as I am very cautious with my watches, I cannot imagine wear them on the beach or for swimming. If anything bad happens, I would be really disappointed and angry about myself. In addition, I would like to pass down some of them to my son so... I pref... 

If I remember right,

 
By: dr.kol : June 11th, 2016-04:52
this RO is water proof to 50 meters. In reality it means shower, no swimming. Your Nautilus is water proof to 120 meter. In reality it means swimming, no scuba diving. Don't swim with watches with less than 100 meters of WR. Rolex, as an example, is a goo... 

Aquanaut is a perfect watch for swimming

 
By: dr.kol : June 11th, 2016-06:47
and if you don't tell anybody, I have also been wearing my 5167 on scuba diving. Best, Kari

I like the "couple" pics a lot!

 
By: Mark in Paris : June 11th, 2016-07:14
You have a very nice taste for your watches, this is a real pleasure admiring them, aside from the usual stream. As said, the RO is 50m waterproof whereas the 3800 is 120M, be careful when you use them underwater. Usually the 30/50m label is not for swim... 

Royal Oaks are not water-resistant enough to swim in

 
By: watch-er : June 12th, 2016-09:34
Hard to believe with all the nuts, bolts and screw- down crown and ad hype but the standard RO is only pressure proof to 50m. Clearly not a swimmer's watch.

Water resistant? What does it really mean?

 
By: whit : June 13th, 2016-05:31
I am perplexed, and have been for some time, about this subject. What does it mean when a manufacturer states that a piece is water resistant to 30, 50, 120, 4000 meters? What do the specs need to be to shower, swim, dive etc.? If a watch is water resista... 

I totally agree

 
By: Mark in Paris : June 13th, 2016-07:33
This is the main thing I really found odd when I came to watches at the beginning. As you say, it is totally misleading, for a "normal" client but even for someone who knows a little about watches. That's why I made a post about this issue, before summer,... 

As I understand it

 
By: watch-er : June 13th, 2016-14:12
the watches are placed in a chamber containing water to the desired pressure and, in fact, the watch can withstand 30 meters of static water pressure if its passes the test. Nothing misleading there. The key is the test is in static non moving water. When... 

Indeed Bob

 
By: Mark in Paris : June 13th, 2016-15:12
The testing is made with the right pressure from that level. The thing is that the test doesn't take what I would call "real life use" into account. Hence, in the end, the client who isn't someone aware of all that, when he reads "30m", he concludes that ... 

Cool

 
By: Tonypatch : October 9th, 2016-02:52
Last week I was standing next to an Iranian guy in Frankfurt Airport's Senator lounge, and he had one of those (but might have been an oversized version). Very nice with jeans and trainers (unfortunately I dont own neither).