Am I permitted to get my watch wet?
It all relies on how wet the watch was made to get. As a general rule, a WR30m watch is meant to be splashed, a WR50m is OK for light swimming but not actually extended immersion, a WR100m watch is fine for swimming and a WR200m can be considered a diver's watch and can stay under a long time. Where you get your watch wet is also important. Try avoiding dunking even a depth rated watch in hot water, like in the bath or shower; the heat can twist seals and soapy detergents can damage your timepiece. Watch seals also don't fare well against the chlorine in swimming pools, so wash it off in fresh water after swimming in a pool. Likewise after swimming in the sea, used clean water to rinse out all that salt!
What about daylight and heat?
Heat in the shape of saunas for example isn't truly advocated, especially if you take a sauna and then enter the icy waters of the plunge pool! Rapid contraction occurs in rapid hot to cold changes like that, and the seal may have declined from the heat, which could lead to damage. Also, moisture will remain in the watch because of the air within, and rapid cooling will make it condense and it could stain the crystal.
Heat in terms of wearing the watch in hot weather often can not be helped, particularly if you live in a hot area of the Earth. Avoid wearing the watch in strong sunlight , however , as the heat will not do much good to the lubricants and the dials could prematurely age and the lacquer could bubble up and lift. This does not imply you need to keep your watch under your sleeves when it's sunny! It's merely a case of trying not to cook your watch or yourself.
Is my watch shockproof?
It might be shock-resistant but it's best not to check its capability to withstand shock; mechanical watches are nearly always fitted with certain shock soaking up devices today but despite that, do not show your watch to sudden shocks, vibration, dropping etc . Mechanical watches are pretty troublesome but there's a limit; exposing the watch to serious shock can as a minimum affect timekeeping and at worst will cause mechanical failure.
My watch says Antimagnetic on the back.
Most watches are antimagnetic to some level; that is to claim that they'll stand exposure to limited magnetic fields without timekeeping being adversely affected. However, high magnetic fields can only be withstood by consultant watches. We should avoid this with our everyday automatic. Firstly what you need to recollect is that a mechanical watch has lots and lots of metal within it; all these parts are interacting with one another in some way; wheels meshed with pinions for example. If these or the even more fragile components become magnetized, then the watch at best will run very erratically or at worst will stop altogether. This is not something most people have to worry about.
Try to not get too twitchy about it, try and avoid getting your watch too near to magnets, stereo speakers, PC monitors...even the rubber magnetized seal round the fridge door. All these are a potential source of trouble. Please visit http://www.timetraditions.com/ for top of the range replica watches.
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