What is the required water resistance for an everyday watch.

I don't even think about WR when buying a watch. An unimportant spec for me

My 3 most worn watches are all 30m. I'm not a fan of metal bracelets or rubber straps so I'm taking my watch off if I'm getting wet anyways. I'll never understand why the average person needs more than 30m for normal day-to-day activities. I also think a lot of people's "need" for more water resistance just comes from forums and YouTube where things just continue to get repeated over and over again.

The two most pointless specs to me are WR and lume. At least with lume you sometimes get an interesting pattern. Maybe if I lived in a moist climate I'd be more interested in it.

I'm a professional haggis hunter.

A fully-grown adult haggis is known to be able to dive to a depth of 300m. If I am in free diving pursuit with a harpoon in one hand and a mesh net in the other, I will want a capable dive watch on my wrist.

I prize no-nonsense functional performance over the frivolity of "luxury" credentials. This calls for a watch with water resistance of around 50 ATM.

For this reason my dive watch of choice is the Yema Superman 500, a.k.a. Le chasseur de haggis.

Enough resistance to withstand splashes of water while I'm washing my hands or doing the dishes.

Seals good I'm fine with 3atm.

WR is over hyped in general.

Members in here have gone in many dives with Casio F-91W, and big shocker, it did NOT in fact explode at 30ft under water.

I get that "you" don't need water resistance. Watch brands make watches for all of us, which includes people like me

Most of my watches have been hiking or biking in dumping rain, they've forded alpine rivers, crossed snow banks, and gotten dunked in a lake. I don't want to stop to over think which watch to wear today, I want the majority of my tools to handle whatever outdoor adventure I've gotten myself into. If it doesn't have at minimum 100m water resistance, I probably won't buy it

Fifty is fine.

Interesting, maybe its in peoples own defenition of ‘ everyday ‘ . Who really needs to have a watch that tells you the day,date,month, moonphase, power reserve, world times, lume, altimeter, air temp, etc.. etc.. so why not a few hundred meters water resistance.

WR its an irreverent factor for me.

Under that logic, an everyday watch needs to be able to perform saturation diving and by hyper anti-magnetic and have a gmt function.

My job involves speaking to folks in multiple timezones. But I don't assume that is the reality for most people. Most people aren't fording rivers. I've haven't done that outside of Oregon trail on my old apple.

I'm not talking about dive watches or awesome field watches that are capable of doing that.

I'm talking about everyday watches for average people

Most watches sold have decent water resistance so maybe that will tell you which one of us is right.

I suspect those watch brands do research. They also know what comes back with damage. They know what sits at the showrooms.

30m is enough. I just need minimal moisture resistance for my sweaty wrist on hot humid days.

Im not moved by WR as a watch must-have.

Yes, exactly this.

I own maybe one "dress" watch. All the rest have to be adventure-ready.

Citizen dive watches are ideal for my lifestyle - they are rated at 200m - better yet they are not expensive so if they get waterlogged it is not that annoying. I have a vostock from the factory that got waterlogged and it was quite annoying.

I do swim with my Omega, but why temp fate.

A number on the dial tells you nothing about the condition of the watch.

For me, it's more of an indicator of build quality/attention to detail. For a modern sports watch; Less than 10atm feels like the manufacturer is cutting corners..

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I'm sorry, but you cannot assert that you are "right" here. It's all opinions and regardless of what sells well, not everyone buying a dive watch is using it for it's intended purpose.

An opinion is "I like green watches"

An opinion is "that dial is too busy"

The reality is that watches have water resistance because watches without water resistance come back to the manufacturer with damage or sit around on store shelves. My pointing that out doesn't make it my opinion.

I'm not saying all y'all can't go buy a dress watch. Go forth. Purchase. I'm sure you'll find them readily available on sitting store shelves

"watches without water resistance come back to the manufacturer with damage or sit around on store shelves"

Another opinion until it's backed up with significant data...