Extreme activities and wearing mechanical watches ⛷️🏂🤺🏄🏽‍♂️🚴‍♂️

CASIO… however I did ride from Cairns to Cape York then back and wore my Seiko Diver Solar and it didn’t miss a beat. I wouldn’t use mechanical.

I've ridden motorbikes all my adult life and have worn a variety of automatic /mechanical watches with no issue. I've also mountain biked, dived, played tennis. No problem.

I don’t think riding a motorcycle should be a problem. The big things I try to stay away from are high vibration hand tools, impact wrenches, hammer drills etc. This is really true for me because I often use my left hand for those type of things because of a right shoulder injury history.

The biggest killer is gonna be chronic exposure to repetitive, hard movements like @RobertLee3rd mentioned, jackhammers, hammer drills etc.

And mechanical watches could possibly become magnetized around extremely strong magnetic fields.

I regularly work out with mine, and drive large vehicles, off road, over rough terrain and haven't noticed any negatives.

I also routinely train with my watches during firearms training. For any small arms nothing untoward.

If I was going to do a full range card, or qual and fam fire with a Barret (.50 cal), a squad automatic, Mk 19, or Ma Deuce I might take it off. (Basically an aggressive and extremely high round count)

But even occasional use of the afore mentioned heavy weapons hasn't caused any issues I'm aware of at the moment.

I can confirm no issues with the 240, I've used it several times with different watches. It should be fine with the M2.

Yea same here. For an EXTREMELY high round count, like maxing out the daily limit for the Barret, multiple days in a row it might be a concern.

Most of my stuff is dive/field with some anti-shock built in though, didn't want to make a positive statement ALL watches are good to go, internet being the Internet, and vintage, etc lol.

Personally I'd be FAR more concerned about my ears, sinuses, and maybe even TBI lol....😅😬🤏🏻🤐.

I can also positively state that being at intentional detonation, or k328 for everything from 5lbs NEWQD up to 5,000 NEWQD (plus whatever insane NEWQD for old Titan rocket motors is), doesn't do anything.

Had a few much closer K-factors and some breaching, no movement issues.

On a side note, Elliot Brown's Holton Pro can tank a few pounds of Semtex and be fine, but it is a quartz...😉😂👀

https://elliotbrownwatches.com/en-us/blogs/journal/is-holton-professional-bomb-proof

Makes you smile ripping some linked off wearing an auto tho doesn't it?

Only another watch nerd would smile sadly...😐

I don't wear whole riding because of a little thing called "degloving." Knew a guy whose watch degloved on him.

On motorcycles it's all about minimizing the risks you can control, and accepting those you can't. Personally I just put my watch in a small felt pouch in my jacket pocket and slap it on when I'm off.

Cheers, and keep at least on wheel on ground at all times! 🍻

Yeah that's fair. Now I'll probably get blamed for someone ruining their vintage trench watch by wiping too hard.

😂

I'm usually smiling any time I get to go full auto. 🤙🏽

When I last had my Seamaster serviced, the watchmaker made some off-hand remark about, "You're not going golfing in that now, are you?" I told him I hated golf, so no danger of that. But it demonstrated to me that even watchmakers err on the side of caution with this stuff, because I guess there's no accounting for how rough someone will be if you DON'T tell them to be careful. So rather than suggest automatic watches are delicate snowflakes - they aren't - I think such warnings are to stop people overdoing it.

It's fine. They wore mechanical watches in battle during WW2. Many of those watches are still ticking today.

Does going to Disneyland count as an extreme activity? 🤣

I guess we all think our own sports or activities are most violet for watches

Having a lot of different hobbies :

I think mountaineering, motorcycling, shooting, ocean sports (sailing, windsurfing, ocean distance swimming, kayaking) .. aren’t bad in my experience. Hitting a watch you like against a rock wall when scrambling is dangerous though.

Road racing (bikes) and triathlons are the hardest on a watch IMO. A road/tri bike goes motorcycle speeds but on 90 psi 23mm tires. On a carbon frame, for hour after hour.

I shoot handguns a lot competitively, and even more in practice - with a .45ACP 1911...and I've never had a problem with a mechanical watch. 👍

I did just over 1300km on the back of a BMW GS touring Swaziland with a vintage dress watch on.

You have nothing to worry about when it comes to motorcycling.

In fact, there's a lot you can do while wearing a watch, because your body absorbs most of the shock. Dropping a watch to a tile floor can break the balance staff, but you falling to the floor likely won't, if you get what I mean.

If you have kids, yes. 😬

As a motorcyclist who has only worn quartz watches on a bike, this is a really useful thread. Thanks all!

I jump from my bed to my couch regularly, and I haven't had problem with my mechanical watches so far.

I always wear my g-shock during my sport activities. I fell off my bike 15 years ago and I’m glad that I had a rubber watch on my wrist as I slided on hard concrete with my wrist. If it had been steel watch it would have been destroyed completely. Not to mention my hand. In my case it acted as a protector

It’s Mortal Kombat!!!!

The most extreme sport I do is sitting in my paddling pool all Summer, so I have nothing much to add. I did once knock a fence post in while wearing a Steeldive "Willard" with an NH35A movement though, and it was fine.

I’ve worn an automatic (Selita SW200-1) skateboarding over the last few years and it’s been fine. We’ve even hit the ground pretty hard… a few times. It’s still keeping excellent time.

I have a horse ranch - and the sad fact is that sometimes you hit the ground! My current project is a 17-hand-tall descendent of Man 'O War...whom I've come off of only once, thank God. It's caused bruised shoulders and hips...but my mechanical watches have always survived unscathed. 😂

Ridewith mine, jump out of airplane and use power tools. No issues in 40 years. Maybe just luck?

I burned a full 50 round box of .357mag and mine never skipped a beet.

Fellow LA boy here. If I ride it's gonna be with this one.