Hey time for yet another installment of..."Can it swim?"
Omega rates their watches for a specific depth, and they can go to that rated depth. Omega doesn;t make you refer to some oddball third party chart that then tells you 50m is only "splashproof."
So the salesperson is spreading misinformation - not unusual for salespeople to not fully understand the technical details of the products they are selling.
Couple of things...the Speedmaster does in fact have specific features that allow it to go in water - the seals.
Secondly, the "dynamic pressure" argument is made ad nauseum in these threads, but watches that leak don't do so because they were taken deeper than they were intended, or because the wearer moved their arms really fast, or dove, or got hit by a wave. They fail primarily because they don't get maintained.
In preparation for the continuation of these endless arguments, I present the following...
If you look at the ratings of the watches, and the depths they go to, and the modes of failure, it is safe to assume that there is a significant safety factor built into these watches that aren't going to be exceeded by dynamic pressure from any activity a human is likely to survive.
And because I loved these old commercials, another example of what a watch can take and still not leak:
In the end, you should only do what you are comfortable with, but that is a very different thing that what the watch is actually capable of.
Cheers, Al
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