Not a diver, but I'm not one either

For me, it has to have a minimum of 100m with a screw down crown but I’m preferring 200m. Even if I’m not diving, I want to have that piece of mind.

Give it to me. Give me all of it.

That’s an elegant timepiece 👌🏼

If the watch I'm wearing can take me washing my hands, or maybe a couple of seconds of accidental immersion I'm fine.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm not that fussed by dive watches.

anything below 4000m is subpar

This is the only option really

I spend most of my time working outside. So long as my watches can handle heavy rain, I'm happy.

Thank you!

Depends on if I have a leather strap on or not

Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I wouldn't tend to wear a watch while swimming anyway. The only time I'll get a watch wet is in the rain it perhaps my Casio/G Shock in the shower after a run!

What's so contoversial? Sounds like a tabloid subject. 🙄

If it is a dress watch or just a casual watch of good quality water resistance of 30 to 50 meters is fine. If it is a watch I may need to work in conditions where it could get really wet or submerged I want at least 100 meters and I want it to be of a quality that I can trust rating.

50m in today's world is just lazy, 30m is almost offensive.

I'm a relatively active person, I like hiking, fishing, camping, swimming and occasionally diving. But I'm also doing more mundane tasks like washing dogs, bathing babies, and occasionally hop in the shower without remembering to take off my watch. So, besides a couple of vintage pieces which i'm very careful with, I need 100m minimum to be safe in day to day. 200m for diving.

Imo for a dress watch, 3-5atm is fine, but the peace of mind is still on that 5atm.

The sweet spot is 10atm water resistance for extra peace of mind, especially on an everyday/GADA watch.

My 10atm water resistance watches.

Its all down to the seals on your watch which harden and crack around their 6th birthday of manufacture, not watch manufacture date either.

I think like most I would like all my watches make it to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean event. Though I don’t even jump in a swimming pool ever 😂just gives you extra ease when it raining to know the watch can handle way more. Hunan nature I guess. We know well enough that a 100m watch can handle it no problem but still want 1000m watch for it and cost the same amount lmao 🤣

I’ll say it like I said in another post.

When I was 5 I was pushed off a dock by another kid into a lake. I was drowning. My mother jumped, fully clothed, into the water and rescued me. All turned out well except her watch.

The moral…you never know when your watch is going to get pressure tested 😉

For me water resistance is on the same importance level as how the watch box looks. It it is there, great, but if I like the watch and it is only 30 meters, I still would buy it.

Hell yeah, Mom! 💪👏

The more the better.100M is more than sufficient for everyday tasks though, also keeps the profile of the watch slim and looking 👌

Super shot of that 🤩

First, great photo!

My collection has a range of water resistance offerings. For the rare times that I may require it, I’ve got numerous 100m as well as a 200 and 300m capable example. The only one I bought specifically for water use is a Vaer S3 with 100m rating that served well during surfing lessons in Hawaii a few years ago. Actually scuffed the sapphire crystal getting dragged across the coral a time or two. Pretty sure I’ll never subject another watch to more stress than that. The 30 or 50m rating of most of my quartz offerings is all I will ever need from them.

Good article on water resistance https://ijl.ca/blogs/the-jewel/3-things-you-dont-know-about-water-resistance—

TLDR, your water resistance rating doesn’t mean you can go swimming with the watch up to that depth!

OVERRATED. Just because a watch has a 100 meter waterproofing does mean it is. If a watch has a bad seal or a crown not screwed in it wil leak. Besides, I don't need a watch to survive the Mariana Trench or to go deeper than I can free dive, maybe 20'. So in reality a watch that's 3-5 ATM would be perfectly fine for me. To be perfectly honest any watch I have will work fine around or in water as long I use that watch according.

I went swimming and forgot to screw in the crown and it was fine because it was a 200m diver, more wr just means more things that can go wrong before it leaks. Lifts have a safety brake in them but I've never been in a situation that needed it, but you don't want the first time something goes wrong to be the last time

Water resistance must be the horological forum equivalent of “Come on Eileen”

You're absolutely right. If I'm planning on going swimming I'm taking a watch with solid waterproofing. If I'm going out on the town waterproofing doesn't matter. If I find myself in situation where I want to wet and I don't want my watch to get wet. I take it off. There's nothing wrong with waterproofing I have drivers but waterproofing isn't going to stop me from buying a watch that makes me smile. It's not that important to me.

This is going to sound daft coming from someone who has a seiko dive watch collection with a 1000m tuna and a 5000m sinn ux

As I’m not a diver and even if I was I wouldn’t be using one I’m happy that my watches can survive a downpour or a fall into say a pool because that’s all I need if I go swimming I take off my watch because I don’t need it or want to risk damaging. I buy dive watches because I like the look of them and the utility of the timing bezel. I buy the more extreme divers for the engineering that goes into them

I don’t even shower in them 😂