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6 bar water resistance?
What are your thoughts on this? I just realized that the IWC Yacht Club has the same water rating as a pilot watch. According to IWC that’s enough for snorkeling but looking at other forums people say the watch shouldn’t go in water at all.
Anyone here ever swam with a 6 bar watch specifically an IWC?
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6 bar water resistance?
What are your thoughts on this? I just realized that the IWC Yacht Club has the same water rating as a pilot watch. According to IWC that’s enough for snorkeling but looking at other forums people say the watch shouldn’t go in water at all. Anyone here ev...
I may be being a bit anal here but I just don't put my watches in water unless absolutely necessary.
Sometimes I think it's just a "hey, look at me" thing. All of my modern watches are water resistant but the wettest they have been is under slow running water when I brush the crud off. Just an opinion.
6 bar means your watch can resist to the pressure found 60 meters under the surface.
You can definitely swim and snorkel with your watch. Losing or scratching your nice watch should be much more of a concern than its water resistance!
I was just curious
Mainly that a watch designed for water has the same water rating as a pilot watch which is not designed for swimming. I am also in the boat of don’t get the watch wet unless you have to. The main reason I gravitate to rubber straps and diver type styles i...
The last time I was at the yacht club....
The deepest thing was the Scotch on the rocks they were serving 🥃
I just got back from Colombia
80 foot yacht... no watch and also a lot of alcohol. So you may have a point there
6 Bar Watch
I took a trip in a submarine in Cozomel. Took a photo of my dive watch out the window. It finally got to dive. So we don’t always use the function our watch was designed for. BTW I like this watch .
My IWC UTC (60m water resistance) is the watch I use for water-oriented vacations.
Historically, it has been the watch I have taken when I expected to snorkel, swim, water slide, etc. It has not had any problem standing up to those activities. My opinion: if a watch says 60m (or even 30m or 10m) and cannot be taken swimming, it is false...
I have to agree with this
I am going on a vacation next month and was going to bring this with me as my only watch. We will see if it goes in the water. I was more curious that they designed a sports watch that has the same water rating as their pilots watches. It’s kind of a stra...
I agree, unless a watch is specifically designed for swimming, snorkeling or diving don't get it in the water. Some of the 30 meter water resistance watches are ok for hand
washing and rain but not swimming. After all I have said in this thread I probably would swim/snorkel with my Submariner on, if I had to.
Does anyone swim or dive in a Yacht Club?
I thought it was just for riding boats. And it’s a regular chrono without screw-down pushers. I wouldn’t dare swim with it. As a point of reference, the yacht master is only 100 meters. Rolex didn’t give it diver specs. It’s the same as a DateJust. ...
You can swim with any Rolex including datejust. There is a big difference between saturation diving and going in a pool or ocean
In all honestly if it leaks I’ll send it back to them or have my AD take it back and give me a different watch. The issue comes with IWC as they can easily say the watch went deeper than supposed to at which point the risk is not worth it. My biggest ques...