Discussion:
water resistant watches
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BrianM
2004-04-16 01:50:31 UTC
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Hi everyone. It's pretty quiet in this group at the moment.
With all that lovely tropical water to dive in around Australia,
there should be lots to report on.

Some people collect beer cans - I tend to collect dive watches,
kept for a while and then recycled back into the market.
Currently I have an Olympic pro-dive 300m and two G-Shock 200m models, a
Citizen 200m, and a Nike 50m sports watch. The only one missing is the 100m
and I saw a Casio Tide Graph model in the window today that's has
my Visa itching. However, the point of this post is how accurate do you
believe the depth ratings for sports watches are. We would expect specialist
diving watches/computers like Suunto etc to be pretty spot on, but what about
the others. Is my Nike 50m w/r only showerproof? or can I really take it
down to 50 metres (not that I could/would/wanted to/ anyway)
My wife uses a Baby-G 100m w/r which hasn't leaked to my knowledge, but
she has an aversion to going underwater, and is happy snorkeling around
the surface like a seal pup.
The 200m & 300m w/r jobs would survive longer at those depths than I
would so they're academic.

Has anyone had a watch blowout at depth?

cheers
Brian
Michael Mackay-Blair
2004-04-15 13:46:27 UTC
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I have had my Pulsar Quartz "Diver" down to 40Metres and it still works
well.

Michael MB
Post by BrianM
Hi everyone. It's pretty quiet in this group at the moment.
With all that lovely tropical water to dive in around Australia,
there should be lots to report on.
Some people collect beer cans - I tend to collect dive watches,
kept for a while and then recycled back into the market.
Currently I have an Olympic pro-dive 300m and two G-Shock 200m models, a
Citizen 200m, and a Nike 50m sports watch. The only one missing is the 100m
and I saw a Casio Tide Graph model in the window today that's has
my Visa itching. However, the point of this post is how accurate do you
believe the depth ratings for sports watches are. We would expect specialist
diving watches/computers like Suunto etc to be pretty spot on, but what about
the others. Is my Nike 50m w/r only showerproof? or can I really take it
down to 50 metres (not that I could/would/wanted to/ anyway)
My wife uses a Baby-G 100m w/r which hasn't leaked to my knowledge, but
she has an aversion to going underwater, and is happy snorkeling around
the surface like a seal pup.
The 200m & 300m w/r jobs would survive longer at those depths than I
would so they're academic.
Has anyone had a watch blowout at depth?
cheers
Brian
Rheilly Phoull
2004-04-17 05:22:41 UTC
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Post by Michael Mackay-Blair
I have had my Pulsar Quartz "Diver" down to 40Metres and it still works
well.
Michael MB
Post by BrianM
Hi everyone. It's pretty quiet in this group at the moment.
With all that lovely tropical water to dive in around Australia,
there should be lots to report on.
Some people collect beer cans - I tend to collect dive watches,
kept for a while and then recycled back into the market.
Currently I have an Olympic pro-dive 300m and two G-Shock 200m models, a
Citizen 200m, and a Nike 50m sports watch. The only one missing is the
100m
Post by BrianM
and I saw a Casio Tide Graph model in the window today that's has
my Visa itching. However, the point of this post is how accurate do you
believe the depth ratings for sports watches are. We would expect
specialist
Post by BrianM
diving watches/computers like Suunto etc to be pretty spot on, but what
about
Post by BrianM
the others. Is my Nike 50m w/r only showerproof? or can I really take it
down to 50 metres (not that I could/would/wanted to/ anyway)
My wife uses a Baby-G 100m w/r which hasn't leaked to my knowledge, but
she has an aversion to going underwater, and is happy snorkeling around
the surface like a seal pup.
The 200m & 300m w/r jobs would survive longer at those depths than I
would so they're academic.
Has anyone had a watch blowout at depth?
Heh,heh Blowin more like it :-)
Post by Michael Mackay-Blair
Post by BrianM
cheers
Brian
BrianM
2004-04-18 06:40:59 UTC
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Post by Rheilly Phoull
Post by Michael Mackay-Blair
I have had my Pulsar Quartz "Diver" down to 40Metres and it still works
well.
Michael MB
Hi everyone. It's pretty quiet in this group at the moment. With all
that lovely tropical water to dive in around Australia, there should
be lots to report on.
Some people collect beer cans - I tend to collect dive watches, kept
for a while and then recycled back into the market. Currently I have
an Olympic pro-dive 300m and two G-Shock 200m models, a Citizen 200m,
and a Nike 50m sports watch. The only one missing is the
100m
and I saw a Casio Tide Graph model in the window today that's has my
Visa itching. However, the point of this post is how accurate do you
believe the depth ratings for sports watches are. We would expect
specialist
diving watches/computers like Suunto etc to be pretty spot on, but what
about
the others. Is my Nike 50m w/r only showerproof? or can I really take
it down to 50 metres (not that I could/would/wanted to/ anyway) My
wife uses a Baby-G 100m w/r which hasn't leaked to my knowledge, but
she has an aversion to going underwater, and is happy snorkeling
around the surface like a seal pup.
The 200m & 300m w/r jobs would survive longer at those depths than I
would so they're academic.
Has anyone had a watch blowout at depth?
Heh,heh Blowin more like it :-)
Ouch !. Tell us about it.

cheers
Brian

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