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They're indestructible, I was diving on my first deep technical dive with a rebreather and was so preoccupied with my gear that I left one of these on with my d

They're indestructible, I was diving on my first deep technical dive with a rebreather and was so preoccupied with my gear that I left one of these on with my dive watch, as I was descending I noticed but figured its gone and got on with my dive. We went just over 60m, when I finished up I saw the thing was still fine. After that, I believed their claims of bar pressure etc, when I see other watches that claim 50m etc, I wouldn't dare trust them to survive.

ghostpepper 4y ago
I've taken several watches on dives just to see if the ratings are real. Timex Easy Reader, says 30m, failed on a dive that was no more than 15m. Seiko SKX-007 OTOH, rated to 200m, I have taken it to about 30m with no ill effect. I've since learned you can have a watch repair shop test this with a pressure chamber and a finely-calibrated displacement-measuring instrument, no water required.
- Sekhmet 4y ago
  Water resistance ratings of 30 meters don’t mean that you can dive with it up to 30 meters. Those ratings are related to static pressure tests. Generally 30 meters shouldn’t be submerged, 50 meters is okay for swimming, above that diving is acceptable to certain limit. True diving watches start with 200 meters and preferably ISO diver's certification (which SKX has).
  - CydeWeys 4y ago
    The funny thing about the 200m WR rating on true diver's watches is that that's more than even 99.9% of divers are ever going to use. Recreational diving tops out at 40m (that's a deep dive!), let alone 200m. The actual number of people diving to deeper than that in an entire year, worldwide, is a 3 digit number. Of course I say all that and yet I have a Seiko spring drive tuna 600m saturation diver, even though it's never been deeper than a few meters and very unlikely ever to do so. But the engineering is fun to appreciate even if it'll never do even 1% of what it's capable of.
Karrot_Kream 4y ago
I only wear G-Shocks for this reason, though I also love the more aesthetic models. I have a dressier one that I wear to nice/fancy events, but my daily driver is the solar powered multi-band radio adjusted one. In the first month of owning my daily driver, I hit a giant pothole on my commute ride home from construction that hadn't been marked yet and took a huge fall; I was biking at 17 mph unfortunately since I was at work late and the streets were pretty empty. The crash gave me some pretty bad road rash, some bruises, and destroyed my helmet. The G-Shock hit the ground first and slid along with me. Other than disfigurement on the part of the bezel that slid, the watch was fine. Later on, I filed off some of the chewed up parts of the rubber and the watch now only looks minorly scuffed. Years later it's been on swims, dives, hikes, camps, long bike rides, been with me through carpentry, and travel, and it's still going strong with mostly the scuff marks to show for. I also frequently shower with it. I love never having to think about it; the watch just works. I sometimes fall asleep with it on and forget I even had it.
_fat_santa 4y ago
Teddy Baldassarre made a video where they rented a helicopter and tested the drop resistance of G-shocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDniaf1w_Ls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDniaf1w_Ls

ghostpepper 4y ago

I've taken several watches on dives just to see if the ratings are real. Timex Easy Reader, says 30m, failed on a dive that was no more than 15m. Seiko SKX-007 OTOH, rated to 200m, I have taken it to about 30m with no ill effect. I've since learned you can have a watch repair shop test this with a pressure chamber and a finely-calibrated displacement-measuring instrument, no water required.

Sekhmet 4y ago
Water resistance ratings of 30 meters don’t mean that you can dive with it up to 30 meters. Those ratings are related to static pressure tests. Generally 30 meters shouldn’t be submerged, 50 meters is okay for swimming, above that diving is acceptable to certain limit. True diving watches start with 200 meters and preferably ISO diver's certification (which SKX has).
- CydeWeys 4y ago
  The funny thing about the 200m WR rating on true diver's watches is that that's more than even 99.9% of divers are ever going to use. Recreational diving tops out at 40m (that's a deep dive!), let alone 200m. The actual number of people diving to deeper than that in an entire year, worldwide, is a 3 digit number. Of course I say all that and yet I have a Seiko spring drive tuna 600m saturation diver, even though it's never been deeper than a few meters and very unlikely ever to do so. But the engineering is fun to appreciate even if it'll never do even 1% of what it's capable of.

Karrot_Kream 4y ago

I only wear G-Shocks for this reason, though I also love the more aesthetic models. I have a dressier one that I wear to nice/fancy events, but my daily driver is the solar powered multi-band radio adjusted one. In the first month of owning my daily driver, I hit a giant pothole on my commute ride home from construction that hadn't been marked yet and took a huge fall; I was biking at 17 mph unfortunately since I was at work late and the streets were pretty empty. The crash gave me some pretty bad road rash, some bruises, and destroyed my helmet. The G-Shock hit the ground first and slid along with me. Other than disfigurement on the part of the bezel that slid, the watch was fine. Later on, I filed off some of the chewed up parts of the rubber and the watch now only looks minorly scuffed. Years later it's been on swims, dives, hikes, camps, long bike rides, been with me through carpentry, and travel, and it's still going strong with mostly the scuff marks to show for. I also frequently shower with it. I love never having to think about it; the watch just works. I sometimes fall asleep with it on and forget I even had it.

_fat_santa 4y ago

Teddy Baldassarre made a video where they rented a helicopter and tested the drop resistance of G-shocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDniaf1w_Ls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDniaf1w_Ls