What Makes One Speedmaster Model More Water Resitant than Another?

schoolboy

I just think the way that some members reply to threads is lowly and disrespectful.

Martin_J_N

Just wondering what that makes me as I own both a Rolex and an Omega? Oh and for the record, I worked bloody hard to afford my luxury watches, bloody hard.



Actually, I would disagree, I find the OF members to be far more friendly and helpful, the Rolex Forum is quite a cold forum, very little humour, I get a lot more out of the OF forums and threads compared to the TRF, I enjoy and actively comment on both but prefer OF as it has better banter and humour.

Martin_J_N

I'm sorry but that is simply not true, I haven't been a member here long, 18 months or so, and the people here have helped me immensely.

To get the most out of any forum it pays to spend a bit of time reading before asking, I spent a good few weeks reading the forums that interested me and searching out the topics I wanted to read up on, many don't do that, quite often the question is asked without the poster making any effort to find things out for themselves.

Martin_J_N

I'm sorry but that is simply not true, I haven't been a member here long, 18 months or so, and the people here have helped me immensely.

To get the most out of any forum it pays to spend a bit of time reading before asking, I spent a good few weeks reading the forums that interested me and searching out the topics I wanted to read up on, many don't do that, quite often the question is asked without the poster making any effort to find things out for themselves.

schoolboy

For the record, I wasn’t labeling omega owners vs Rolex owners

It’s just something I’ve heard.

Gruesome

That might be true, but I think the question the OP meant to ask was 'What makes Omega declare one Speedmaster more water resistant than another?' Al Archer already posted, and I think he said there's no obvious difference in parts (from this 10 atmosphere watch to 5 atmosphere Speedmasters) except for pushers and crown.

My completely uneducated guess: Omega made a mistake, and realized they do not want Speedmaster sales to eat into Seamaster sales. They rather sell you two watches than one.

Gruesome

No, that's not cool. Basing technical watch ratings purely on marketing decisions would not be cool; well, maybe for the marketing guys...
IF IF IF that were true - it's only a guess.

Gruesome

That might be true, but I think the question the OP meant to ask was 'What makes Omega declare one Speedmaster more water resistant than another?' Al Archer already posted, and I think he said there's no obvious difference in parts (from this 10 atmosphere watch to 5 atmosphere Speedmasters) except for pushers and crown.

My completely uneducated guess: Omega made a mistake, and realized they do not want Speedmaster sales to eat into Seamaster sales. They rather sell you two watches than one.

Gruesome

If a watch can resist 10 bar overpressure (gauge pressure), it can also resist 5 bar

d3adrock

Thank you for the reply, nice to see people finally getting back on topic. (for reference I don't care about rolex forum vs omega forum, I just wanted to talk about WR)

On the one hand I hope it's just marketing because I would then have a more substantially waterproof watch than I hoped for. On the other hand it is frustrating that they would not be truthfull. Do you think the type of gasket could be different? I really couldn't imagine.

D Duckie

Production tolerances and surface conditioning are also critical factors.
To put it simply, the exact same seals/gaskets can be used in an assembly that's "made cheaper" and that assembly more than likely will yield less water resistantance across the whole production.

d3adrock

. I hear that 50 meters isnt enough even for wading through a shallow stream, and then from others that 50m is enough to swim with.