Do you shower with your watch?

Shower I really do not care if it's 50 meters plus. Pool or salt water I wouldn't take my 50 meter or less or vintage.

The problem while showering or in the bath is not the watter and the watter resistance. It's the soap. The seals are usually made of plastic and by time the soaps can be quite aggressive to them. The seals can be damaged or dry out which can effect the watter resistance by time. That's why every watch company recommends to wash your watch with fresh watter only.

But if he gives the watch frequently to service that parts will be ckeaned up and the seals will be changed anyway.

So I wouldn't shower with my watch. But if your friend has the need and if it makes him happy....

I usually take my watch off to shower, but not always. Maybe I’m mistaken, but I think watches are a lot tougher than people give them credit for. Like why even talk about how deep your watch can go if you take it off to go in the pool?

Never, Never. Your watch has a good level of water resistance. Over time the seals in your watch will break down. Water will get into your watch. When to take a hot shower steam can also get into your watch. This causes moisture, not good. this is just my opinion, I would never tell anyone what to do with their watch. Taking a watch to a pool or lake is a more forgiving,

I do, and everyone in my family does. Not one single watch with water damage (my granpa even showers with his 50m seiko 5). Then again, i only shower if i have a metal bracelet since i hate how long nato's take to dry and leather is a nono for water.

I take of my watches as soon as I come home, it's just something I got used to doing. Showering with the watch? Not for me

Well I guess that it's one way to check if the WR still hold. As @Uhrologe commented, the issue here is with soap, shampoo, and generally waving around an expensive watch while you stand barefoot on a wet and slippery floor. Somehow it doesn't sounds like a good idea.

I take off my watch when I shower but I do sleep with it on my wrist.

I don't see the point of leaving it on in the shower. A high percentage of mine are 200m so not really worried about water ingress, however the soap scum in the metal bracelet, and the NATO gets wet and cold - and forget the leather! As a side, Marc from Long Island Watch believes that heating it up to hot water temp encourages condensation to come out of the air in the watch. Anyway, do what you want but for me it's a No!

I don’t really get it. Why should I need to know the time in the (max) 10 minutes it takes to shower?

I’d understand keeping the watch on if the bracelet sports a sophisticated locking mechanism with a self-resetting 32-digit passcode. I just don’t know any…

Sea and lake water is at all kinds of temperatures, with all kinds of god knows what in it.

I wear mine to sleep, to bathe, to shower (and the same people that say ‘don’t wear you watch in the bath/shower!’ are often the ones who say ‘wash it with liquid soap and a soft toothbrush’ anyway) and give it a solid rinse under the tap afterwards. I also keep it clean from sweat — stuff sitting on the watch is a bigger problem I reckon anyway, eating at the steel and whathaveyou. Hard water is a pain in the arse though, can get limescale deposits between bracelet and case, or in nooks and crannies.

The dive bezel proves I don’t spend as much time in the bath as the rest of the household too. What else is it for if not timing me my twenty minutes in the tub?

Are tool watches serving some security blanket function for emotionally damaged people nowadays or is this just more of the desperate search to justify overbuilt watches?

Ignoring the utterly unnecessary risk, I'm more curious why anyone wants a clammy damp wrist with untold buildup collecting with the mold spores or whatever. This reminds me of how there was always some unhygienic summer camper that kept their wet swimsuit on overnight and got crotch rot. The discomfort should have been a warning since common sense failed.

No. I'm not a never-nude, and I don't think I'll get dragged into a secret mission at any second. I'm fine with wearing any watch while washing hands but I don't need whatever affirmation this delivers. Also, I have a shower clock that I got for a few bucks that I never really look at anyway... Wait, was he in prison at one point where theft was an issue?

I think you can wear a Rolex in almost every situation and don’t need to worry. I wore my sea dweller 16600 almost everywhere. Even during a desert safari never had a problem. I just stopped few months ago as I got it back from Rolex service. Now I don’t want to get scratches on my almost new looking watch.

Never, ever shower with a watch! The WR rating is meant for water only and does not apply to steam. Steam WILL get past the gaskets and eventually rust out the inside of the watch.

So he has a permanently stinky wrist? Ew. I take off everything to shower, even rings.

Nope never showered with my watch. You should ask if I even shower. Hahaha.

No.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/tale-of-two-isos-what-water-resistance-ratings-really-mean

🤐🫠😐😬🫥🤔🤫

Just kinda poking the bear, though it's interesting that some of these points have been discussed.

One thing to note, is ISO diver standard for condensation and the ISO everything else standard. Also even the billy big brains mention checking gaskets and seals, since from what I understand it's not catastrophic all at once but a gradual degradation of water stopping ability.

*Also note that pic with the Dr who dives with a datejust...😯🤘🏻

Granted the article doesn't talk about the the other things already mentioned:

Soap scum

Mold

Rash

Etc...

Also take into consideration manufacturer. The Big Manufactures (Seiko/Orient, Citizen, Rolly, Swatch, et al) are upfront. Micros much murkier....

For example, Helm is upfront as is Scurfa from what I've read. It's kinda their thing. Others in the microbrand world 🤷🏻. YMMV

At home No I don't see the point as many stated already. It take 2 seconds to take it off. But in a public bath that a different story.

Another point if you have a real vintage watch don't put the watch in the bathroom when you shower. As if the case is not water resistant at all the steamy hot air can potentially ingress some moisture in the movement. No need for that.

On occasion my G shocks. One had a battery put in by a watchmaker who didn’t put the seal in properly. Showered and the crystal fogged up. Waited for it eI managed to put the seal in. I waited a week. Showered. Seemed fixed.

Noooooo ! If you take a hot shower it can degrade the waterproof hermetic seal , metal expands and contracts due to temperature so at closer tolerances it stands to reason that the seal could loose that vacuum seal if you got out of a hot shower then washed hands under a cold stream of water the temperature change could loose it’s integrity.. I am sure this depends on the Watch quality and how precise the tolerances are also ? Anyway I don’t !

What a strange thing to know …..

And we interrupt this programming for a word from Omega, who bring you this on wearing watches in the shower:

https://youtu.be/tlCYEE8w8zM

Close to $4000 in repairs to wife’s Rolex from water damage from her showering with it on.

Lol. Granted 007 doesn't have to have his seals checked, he has ppl for that.

But the point is valid.

Picture up on The submersible wrist on Instagram of some barrel chested Marines from Vietnam era using their Tudors, Tanks Goggle, and UDTs only. Not exactly a shower, but I'm betting they made sure the crown was screwed on, and then went off to do manly, operator, dive stuff. 🤘🏻

I find myself wondering why he had no watch on patching up — and also which of his two watches in that film he’s wearing there.

Either way, he’s definitely wearing a watch in the shower…

When I was on active military duty I wore my watch 24/7. These days I take my watch off for sleeping or for the shower. I do put it on right after the shower though.

As a rule, I take it off, but there have been times after a workout, I just leave it on and let the soap hit it and give it a good rinse. Having said, that, I wear a Timex which is extremely durable and are made to be worn and abused. Don't take my word for it, listen to Timex.

"It Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking"

LOL

Never ever. I know many people who ruined a perfectly good watch this way. There's no need to shower with a watch on when it takes a second to take it off. It says water resistant not steam resistant.