Can I wear my Speedmaster during snow removal?

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A Speedmaster is water resistant to 50m.

Snow to water is a 10:1 ratio.

Your watch is safe to use as you described providing the snow you are clearing is less than 500 meters deep.
If the snow depth is greater please wear a dive watch.
 
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What NASA tested that's relevant here:

Low Temperature -
Four hours at a temperature of 0°F (-18° C)
Pressure Integrity - The chronometer must be immune to large variances in pressure to include a range from 50 feet of water positive pressure to a negative pressure of 10 millimeters of mercury.

We're good BRO 😁
 
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Love this post, @Duracuir1, and so applicable to a lot of members currently. I thought of this last weekend when I got our snowblower going while double-dogging the Kermit and 3861. Both held up admirably, with no condensation or timing errors after a couple of hours outside. Also, hoping your plow truck person is ok, and just hasn’t gotten back to push all the moved snow back into your driveway. I wonder if they teach the fine art of schadenfreude at plow truck driving school because every time I “finish” moving snow from our driveway the plow trucks are right fricking there to remind me I’m never finished. Have a great, snowy night watching football!
 
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Wore this blowing snow yesterday….
 
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No. As with all watches, your Speedmaster should never be worn. It should be kept in a dark and climate controlled place only to be taken out and admired on the blue moon. Ideally only with your eyes, if you must touch it do so wearing archival gloves.

Edit: I forgot to add that you must never wind your watch. That is the quickest way to wear it out.
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No. As with all watches, your Speedmaster should never be worn. It should be kept in a dark and climate controlled place only to be taken out and admired on the blue moon. Ideally only with your eyes, if you must touch it do so wearing archival gloves.

🤦
 
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😲 Brave man.
It likes winter.. hates summer. But …Yea, it wasn’t smart.
 
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Need the rare white dial Omega Snowmaster for this. Allegedly this was spotted on Daniel Craig’s wrist recently, or maybe not
 
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A Speedmaster is water resistant to 50m.

Snow to water is a 10:1 ratio.

Your watch is safe to use as you described providing the snow you are clearing is less than 500 meters deep.
If the snow depth is greater please wear a dive watch.
That may be so, but if it is still snowing, and he decides the throw a snowball, the increased pressure on the seals due to the arm velocity will allow snow flakes that do not have highly 'barbed' edges to easily slip into the watch case...
 
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Yes…even Fred wore his Speedmaster while driving in the snow:

 
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Definitely a "no"; there is no snow on the moon, thus, its not an approved use case for the Speedmaster.
 
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I lived in New England for many years. Loved the summers and the fall. The winters, not so much . . .
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Definitely a "no"; there is no snow on the moon, thus, its not an approved use case for the Speedmaster.
We don’t know that………..we are continuously told by people who are smarter than us and wear tinfoil hats 🤨that the moon landings were faked, so on that basis we can’t say that it doesn’t snow on the moon!
::stirthepot::😁
 
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We don’t know that………..we are continuously told by people who are smarter than us and wear tinfoil hats 🤨that the moon landings were faked, so on that basis we can’t say that it doesn’t snow on the moon!
::stirthepot::😁

Why do you think that wolves howl at the moon, all that yellow snow and stuff
 
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What NASA tested that's relevant here:

Low Temperature -
Four hours at a temperature of 0°F (-18° C)
Pressure Integrity - The chronometer must be immune to large variances in pressure to include a range from 50 feet of water positive pressure to a negative pressure of 10 millimeters of mercury.

We're good BRO 😁
  1. High Temperature - 48 hours at a temperature of 160°F (71°C) followed by 30 minutes at 200°F (93°C). For the high temperature tests, atmospheric pressure shall be 5.5 psi (0.35 atm) and the relative humidity shall not exceed 15%.
Wear safety-socks!

 
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  1. High Temperature - 48 hours at a temperature of 160°F (71°C) followed by 30 minutes at 200°F (93°C). For the high temperature tests, atmospheric pressure shall be 5.5 psi (0.35 atm) and the relative humidity shall not exceed 15%.
Wear safety-socks!