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El otro día puse una tabla de estanqueidad en coña, y alguno se la tomó como seria. Si, también va un poco por lo del ¡Escandalazo, Panerai tiene un 30M!
Por lo que leo, parece que lo que quiere decir "30M" no es la estanqueidad, sino lo cerca que puede estar un reloj del agua. También parece que hace falta tener tres cifras para poderse meter uno en la ducha con el reloj, y un diver extremo para poder llevarlo en la piscina.
Un forero de WUS pensó que todo eso eran estupideces, y cogió dos relojes económicos, un Casio y el popular Military de 36mm, y se puso a bucear con ellos. "Sorprendentemente", no sólo no se ahogaron, sino que el Military aguantó 40M.
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(Está en idioma anglo, si alguien no lo domina, que tire de traductor de Google).
https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/...rical-experience.1847322/page-5#post-20316506
Reminder: my purpose here is simply to light heartedly ridicule and belittle as much as possible all of those brands (and people) who try to convince you that 100m WR is not enough for showering, or that the absence of a screw down crown basically prevents you from wearing your watch on a rainy day.
I try to do this by scuba diving with the cheapest possible 30m WR watches, and and trying to see when they will eventually fail.
Unfortunately this time my dive trip was pretty disastrous.
We had planned a pretty intense 4 dive day, including a deep dive in the morning (Spiegel Grove) outside of key largo, but first the other divers that were supposed to dive deep cancelled, forcing us to join the shallow dive boat, then my buddy suffered some nausea in the second morning dive, leading to aborted afternoon dives.
So this time the test could not be as extensive as the first time.
So we have our old contender, nicknamed Poseidon Lord Of The Depths, protagonist of the first dive test.
This is the possessed Casio A158W-1
Here seen in action while spanking most 40000m WR divers around the Spiegel grove in April:
The second is a recently purchased, $59 snk805 automatic from seiko, also a 30m WR watch, featuring an absolutely non screw down, minuscule wobbly crown, a plasticky feeling display case back and the overall feeling of a watch that could not survive an accidental beer splash at your typical barbecue party with multiple drunk friends (I happen to do this a lot, if you don't please don't judge. Also, I have an awesome life so you should probably consider inserting some more beer induced drunkness among your circle of friends).
So how did they perform?
We weren't able to dive below 9 meters unfortunately (still approx 20 times deeper than a hot tub though), but....
Beginning of the dive:
Later
My dive buddy (he has a DSSD but he obviously thought 9m was too much so he went watchless)
After an hour:
So again, to the surprise of nobody who ever actually dove, a relatively new, cheap 30m WR watch from a respectable brand survived a dive.
The Casio on the other hand survived after having already endured multiple dives a few months ago.
I expect them to fail sometime obviously (all watches will fail eventually), but will continue to test them till they do.
On my next dives, probably happening this coming winter, I will bring both the Casio and the seiko, plus a new test specimen.
Do you have any 30m WR, cheap watch from a respectable brand to recommend? I was thinking a swatch.
Here's the two test survivors after a thorough rinsing
https://forums.watchuseek.com/f74/wai...l#post23884809
Wait, this seems kinda dark, let me look up
Well, it is dark, I wonder how deep we are
Oh.
40m?
I thought you needed a bathyscaphe to come that deep.
Seiko's response to the church of dynamic pressure:
Por lo que leo, parece que lo que quiere decir "30M" no es la estanqueidad, sino lo cerca que puede estar un reloj del agua. También parece que hace falta tener tres cifras para poderse meter uno en la ducha con el reloj, y un diver extremo para poder llevarlo en la piscina.
Un forero de WUS pensó que todo eso eran estupideces, y cogió dos relojes económicos, un Casio y el popular Military de 36mm, y se puso a bucear con ellos. "Sorprendentemente", no sólo no se ahogaron, sino que el Military aguantó 40M.
:(Está en idioma anglo, si alguien no lo domina, que tire de traductor de Google).
https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/...rical-experience.1847322/page-5#post-20316506
Reminder: my purpose here is simply to light heartedly ridicule and belittle as much as possible all of those brands (and people) who try to convince you that 100m WR is not enough for showering, or that the absence of a screw down crown basically prevents you from wearing your watch on a rainy day.
I try to do this by scuba diving with the cheapest possible 30m WR watches, and and trying to see when they will eventually fail.
Unfortunately this time my dive trip was pretty disastrous.
We had planned a pretty intense 4 dive day, including a deep dive in the morning (Spiegel Grove) outside of key largo, but first the other divers that were supposed to dive deep cancelled, forcing us to join the shallow dive boat, then my buddy suffered some nausea in the second morning dive, leading to aborted afternoon dives.
So this time the test could not be as extensive as the first time.
So we have our old contender, nicknamed Poseidon Lord Of The Depths, protagonist of the first dive test.
This is the possessed Casio A158W-1
Here seen in action while spanking most 40000m WR divers around the Spiegel grove in April:
The second is a recently purchased, $59 snk805 automatic from seiko, also a 30m WR watch, featuring an absolutely non screw down, minuscule wobbly crown, a plasticky feeling display case back and the overall feeling of a watch that could not survive an accidental beer splash at your typical barbecue party with multiple drunk friends (I happen to do this a lot, if you don't please don't judge. Also, I have an awesome life so you should probably consider inserting some more beer induced drunkness among your circle of friends).
So how did they perform?
We weren't able to dive below 9 meters unfortunately (still approx 20 times deeper than a hot tub though), but....
Beginning of the dive:
Later
My dive buddy (he has a DSSD but he obviously thought 9m was too much so he went watchless)
After an hour:
So again, to the surprise of nobody who ever actually dove, a relatively new, cheap 30m WR watch from a respectable brand survived a dive.
The Casio on the other hand survived after having already endured multiple dives a few months ago.
I expect them to fail sometime obviously (all watches will fail eventually), but will continue to test them till they do.
On my next dives, probably happening this coming winter, I will bring both the Casio and the seiko, plus a new test specimen.
Do you have any 30m WR, cheap watch from a respectable brand to recommend? I was thinking a swatch.
Here's the two test survivors after a thorough rinsing
https://forums.watchuseek.com/f74/wai...l#post23884809
Wait, this seems kinda dark, let me look up
Well, it is dark, I wonder how deep we are
Oh.
40m?
I thought you needed a bathyscaphe to come that deep.
Seiko's response to the church of dynamic pressure:
y yo q me voy pronto al lado del Atlantico andaluz pensandome como lo hago con un Seiko 5
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. O Murphy llega al encuentro.
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