This is, I am sure, a novice question: I am a target pistol shooter, both 9mm and .45 semi-automatics. I have made it a practice to not wear any of my watches to the range because of repeated pistol recoil. Am I being too cautious?
Oh, and thanks for all the interesting and educational reading here.
Mark
Manual winding watches are much safer to wear during heavy use.
This is, I am sure, a novice question: I am a target pistol shooter, both 9mm and .45 semi-automatics. I have made it a practice to not wear any of my watches to the range because of repeated pistol recoil. Am I being too cautious?
Oh, and thanks for all the interesting and educational reading here.
Mark
How about airport scanners, regarding movement magnetization?
I suppose there is little impact, as other stuff that is sensitive to magnetism isn't dying on the belt (credit cards in wallets, SSDs, etc). But just wondering if it is better to wear it while going to the body scanners or putting them in hand luggage.
(assuming they don't make you take off the watch on the body scans... I don't fly often, but don't recall if at Schiphol people were taking off their watches or not...
I used to fly 2x a week for more than a decade. Airport scanners the kind that takes nude pictures of you, use backscatter radiation which is different from magnetic fields. If anything your mechanical watch will get cancer first before being magnetized.
I think the author is overly cautious and doesn't know very much about the technical side of watches. Some of this is obvious, but some complete nonsense. I play tennis regularly wearing a mechanical watch...in fact just now got back from a 2 hour session and I can assure you my watch is fine.
Having to soak your watch for 45 minutes to rinse off seawater? Nonsense.
I could go on but I think you get the point.
Cheers, Al
ok, 45 min seems excessive, the point is you use the watch in saltwater , once youre out the water evaporates and salt stays behind. thats no real issue on surfaces, but might be an issue in those nooks and crannies under the bezel, in the small tubes of the bracelet, etc...
so submerging it in soapy sweetwater for 2-3 mins might be good practise as it will disolve the salt that stayed behind and it will flush out without staying behind and turning i to a mineral again. u you def. do not want a cristalized mineral in a moving mechanism like bezel or bracelet link, etc
