Is water resistance important for you?

As someone that's in and around water a lot, I prefer at least 100m. For dress watches 30m is fine. Push pull crowns are okay as long as the gasket is inside the stem casing and not on the crown part.

I prefer to buy 100m wr at a minimum. The watch needs to be special if I’m to go for less than that. I don’t have an issue with a push pull crown though.

Water resistance is extremely important to me for no practical reason whatsoever. 🤔

WR is irrelevant to me. I have divers for the beach, otherwise I don't need to worry.

Not really, I swim and shower with most of my watches. Obvious exception are dress watches :-)

Yes, but I see wr more as an indication of how robust the watch is. 🤔👍🏻

I rarely go near water to be honest so it's not something that would make a huge difference to me if I was having to choose between one watch or another. As always though, it absolutely depends on usage. Be interesting to see how many folk really make use of a 300m rated dive watch 🤣

No

100m for anything I'm going to get anywhere near water with.

I’ve learned 100m with a push down crown is all I need for swimming, recreational diving and what ever else life throws at it.

I’ve been told by people far more informed than me, it’s the gaskets that are what creates the water resistance rather than the screw down crown. It’s just the screw down that stops it unwillingly popping out mid dive.

For me, and I would assume most people, we subconsciously associate water resistance level with the toughness of a watch. Something with 300m can take more of a beating than one with 30m. So I always want 200-300m WR, for toughness and GADA without thinking of changing what’s on my wrist. (Although, I’m sure 100m is all I’d ever actually need)

As I got deeper into this hobby, reading more and more about our wonderful wrist tools, I began to consider water resistance quite important. I spend a lot of time in the wilderness, often soaked and dirty, swimming or crossing rivers, etc.

But then I noticed something: in hundreds of adventure photos I have from my pre-hobbyist days, I'm wearing a watch with 50m of water resistance and a push-pull crown. That watch never failed me.

Seals/gaskets and case good? I'm good.

I'm fine with 3 ATM.

Do routinely wear a hand winding, non screw down crown dive watch from HVD. Yes you read that right. Have also taken it swimming. Uses gaskets etc like a modern interpretation of old school methods.

Not important to me. I don’t feel the need to wear my watch in the shower. And I normally change my clothes if I go to the beach or the pool so my watch goes in my pocket. Plus, and I hesitate to say this on WC, I don’t care for dive watches. Don’t own even one.

Most of mine are vintage and have no water resistance at all. Which is fine by me.

I only need one dive watch for the water otherwise I prefer small dress watches and can't stand the larger case outside the water.

Considering we are about 60% water, does anyone ever consider what the watches thoughts on this are? How water resistant would they like us to be, on a scale of cactus to sponge?

Hard NO. I have a watch that has had a missing stem and crown for years. There is open air through the case to the movement. Being an adult that lives indoors, this continues to pose no problem whatsoever in terms of water intrusion. I don't get the orgasmic joy of wearing a watch in water that is so common here.

I appreciate water resistance, but I live in a very rainy, very humid climate. Anything that prevents ingress of moisture is nice. That said, I always treat my watches according to their capabilities.

Depends on the watch.

Casual - 50m & up is nice.

Dressier - don't care.

No diving. but I like to swim & fish.

& FTR, Casios listed as WR can handle a lot of pool time (in my experience).

100 metres is my minimum - I do swim in my watches but I doubt I would ever really go deeper than a few metres - I don’t like push pull crowns though and lose interest immediately if I’m looking at a watch that has that kind of crown.

I don’t care much for it. 50m or up though; I live in rainy Manchester

All my current watches have at least 100m of water resistance. I trust what it says and don’t care as much if the crown is screw in or not, however; most are 300m

Not important at all to me. If I swim my watch comes off. Just needlessly risky to swim with it. It's not as if I'm looking at the watch when playing in the pool or ocean.

If it’s a dive watch obviously yes. All other watches it a nice to have.

For my job and line of duty prefer 100WR. What bothers me you have Iconic and expensive watches with less than 100WR But it’s always in back of our minds…”What if “ something you don’t want to take a chance.