Rolex and Handgun Shooting

[buddyd157]

You have obviously missed the point of my post or are making fun while ignoring it. You work underwater for pretty much one reason only, it pays very well.

At any rate enjoy your Timex as much as I enjoy my Rolex.

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i actually knew someone that did underwater bridge work. he was a welder, putting together those steel forms around the bottom of the piers, where the concrete is poured?

he gave it up for a while, then went back to it.

but i don't know, what type of watch he wears.

 

[Jim Watson]

I can appreciate quality but I am not a diver to need Battle Steel armour or a pilot to want twisty rings and multi dials to track something or another.
I learned the clock face a long time ago and my purpose is to tell the time at a glance without a lot of off center ballast.

 

[sgt127]

pfft...it doesn't even have the day, just the date, you got ripped off

That would be pretentious.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

why would i want to work under water?

Because...

You work underwater for pretty much one reason only, it pays very well.

Yeah...One of my wife's niece's husband is an under-water welder.... Cha-Ching$$$$$

But to get back on target here...........
Has anyone looked at their watch lately and realized it was time to go out to the range to shoot some handguns?

Edit...do some shooting with handguns. Would never do what I posted about shootin' handguns.........

 

[.308 Norma]

Has anyone looked at their watch lately and realized it was time to go out to the range to shoot some handguns?

Other than daytime, I didn't know there was a set time to go to the "range" to shoot guns. Then again, we're retired, and our "range" is a county gravel pit about 2 miles down the road.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Other than daytime, I didn't know there was a set time to go to the "range" to shoot guns. Then again, we're retired, and our "range" is a county gravel pit about 2 miles down the road.

Ditto, same here! But a bit of a longer drive.

 

[HiDive]

I primarily use my watches when I am diving to make sure that I get out of the water by happy hour.

 

[czhen]

I haven't used a watch in 3 decades at least and besides, I was told Rolex are best magnets for BULLETS.

 

[Paul7]

And it's not like having to adjust your watch every few weeks or few months is that big of a deal. I have a bunch of watches but work from home and only put one on when I'm getting up from my desk for the day. So I'm setting my automatics every time I put one on. Not a big deal. If keeping accurate time was the only requirement, I'd have one watch. I wouldn't care what it looked like and it would probably be something like a G-shock. Just like with my guns, I want a little more out of my watches than to perform the most basic tasks.

True, if it wasn't that way we'd all be shooting Hi-Points.

 

[Fiv3r]

I dont have a high end watch. I will say that I can't shoot using my $100 Seiko self winding watch. The recoil over winds it and the time goes all wacky.

For the last 3 or 4 years I was wearing a Gamin fitness tracker. They were durable and waterproof which is a must for me as I work around water a lot. When the last one gave up the ghost I decided to just get an atomic solar G-Shock. I dont have to plug it in and it automatically updates the time. I can't live without my watch. I almost never take mine off. Its such a part of my daily kit to make sure my busy day is completely on schedule. Im compelled to always know the time.

So far, it has held up to shooting just fine including .357 magnum loads and 12 gauge shotguns.

 

[BCC1]

I wear My Rolex every day of the week. Shooting, motorcycling, sailing, bicycle trail riding (and crashing), dirt bike riding, working, sleeping, whatever. The only time I don’t wear it is when I scuba dive. I killed a Brietling doing that, so I figure it’s a good precaution.

I typically shoot 2,000 rounds a month.

 

[FFGColorado]

I wear My Rolex every day of the week. Shooting, motorcycling, sailing, bicycle trail riding (and crashing), dirt bike riding, working, sleeping, whatever. The only time I don’t wear it is when I scuba dive. I killed a Brietling doing that, so I figure it’s a good precaution.

I typically shoot 2,000 rounds a month.

Wow, lucky you altho my hand hurts just reading this..do you reload? Or own a gun store, ammo manufacturing company??

 

[Styx]

8 pages and counting on a thread about shooting while wearing a Rolex?

 

[Speedo66]

I wear My Rolex every day of the week. Shooting, motorcycling, sailing, bicycle trail riding (and crashing), dirt bike riding, working, sleeping, whatever. The only time I don’t wear it is when I scuba dive. I killed a Brietling doing that, so I figure it’s a good precaution.

I typically shoot 2,000 rounds a month.

A Breitling? A Rolex is not a Breitling.

What model is your Rolex that it should not be worn diving? Please don't say a Sea Dweller. lol

 

[Riomouse911]

I don’t own a watch anymore, I only had one nice dress watch and a crappy digital one with a Velcro band. The digital one died and I never replaced my Movado after it was stolen in a burglary years ago.

Since I carry a phone everywhere now there’s kinda no reason for me to get another one.

Stay safe.

 

[BCC1]

Wow, lucky you altho my hand hurts just reading this..do you reload? Or own a gun store, ammo manufacturing company??

I have a Dillon 1050 for making 9mm.

I try to shoot Steel Challenge every week, plus a monthly match. And I try to get to the range a least once a week. It adds up.

I’ve purposely never figured out the cost involved....

 

[BCC1]

A Breitling? A Rolex is not a Breitling.

What model is your Rolex that it should not be worn diving? Please don't say a Sea Dweller. lol

The Breitling was a superocean.

I now use a Shearwater dive computer for ocean diving.

This is the Rolex.

 

[Mosin77]

Any watch, no matter how stout its water resistance rating or how nautical-sounding its name, can get water in it if the gaskets have degraded over time or through user error if the crown isn’t properly screwed down. Which is a surprisingly easy mistake to make, judging by the amount of rusty watches I saw.

 

[Paul7]

Any watch, no matter how stout its water resistance rating or how nautical-sounding its name, can get water in it if the gaskets have degraded over time or through user error if the crown isn’t properly screwed down. Which is a surprisingly easy mistake to make, judging by the amount of rusty watches I saw.

A good idea at service time to have them pressure test it for waterproofness. If so they're supposed to be good for 300' submersion (I don't expect to ever go under 10' ) so I figure they are fine for the shower and swimming.

 

[3Crows]

Several Seiko self winding mechanical watches (SKX007, Turtle, Monster) and a DOXA Sub and a Marathon and more, all mechanical self winders and none seem to have issue with being used for shooting, SCUBA diving or being buzzed on the handle bars of my dirt bikes. If the Rolex cannot take it maybe step up to the Seiko SKX007. It can.

 

[BCC1]

Any watch, no matter how stout its water resistance rating or how nautical-sounding its name, can get water in it if the gaskets have degraded over time or through user error if the crown isn’t properly screwed down. Which is a surprisingly easy mistake to make, judging by the amount of rusty watches I saw.

My Breitling had been back to them for a tune up a couple of months before it failed on a dive to around 150’. I had, of course, taken it on quite a few dives previously without issue and figured the failure was related to the service or of course, user error as you suggest. I’m not infallible, just ask my wife.

It had been my daily watch for years. I replaced it with the Rolex.

Frankly, using a dive watch while diving is a bit anachronistic. A dive computer is much more functional on a dive and replaces a log as well.
A Rolex (and Breitling) is a good daily wearer and that’s what I do. I just don’t feel a need to wear it while diving, as frankly, given the dive computer, it would be redundant and smack not a little of pretentiousness.

 

[Mosin77]

I’m not a diver so I don’t like to tell them what is correct or best (and these watches are definitely marketed as macho diving tools), but from the watchmaker perspective, that is what I have told clients many times. In the days of the Italian WWII divers or Jacques Cousteau, a dive watch was an essential piece of kit. Nowadays, for serious use, it’s an anachronism, kind of like flying a WW1 biplane and insisting on period-correct spark plugs. It may get the job done for a casual dive around a reef, but a modern computer has a lot more features and safety.

Incidentally, for everyone reading this, the water resistance rating on a watch is a technical rating and doesn’t translate intuitively to real life. (I don’t know if other dive equipment is the same way) but this occasionally causes confusion for “desk divers,” especially with low-water resistance dress watches. Most guys read “30 meters water resistance” and assume that it literally means they can dive to 30 meters depth and their watch will be fine. In reality it means that, in theory, on the day the watch left the factory or service center, the watch could be submerged statically to 30 meters and not leak. The problem is, actual swimming (the watch moving through water) can generate pressures of that amount or greater even without the watch actually being submerged. So a true divers watch is generally rated at 150 or nowadays 300 meters (which is of course far deeper than almost any diver could go, at least without extremely specialized equipment) and a watch rated to “100 meters” (your average Rolex, for instance) generally is just considered safe for a surface swim. A 30 meters type watch is generally considered safe for washing your hands or getting caught in the rain.

My Breitling had been back to them for a tune up a couple of months before it failed on a dive to around 150’. I had, of course, taken it on quite a few dives previously without issue and figured the failure was related to the service or of course, user error as you suggest. I’m not infallible, just ask my wife.

It had been my daily watch for years. I replaced it with the Rolex.

Frankly, using a dive watch while diving is a bit anachronistic. A dive computer is much more functional on a dive and replaces a log as well.
A Rolex (and Breitling) is a good daily wearer and that’s what I do. I just don’t feel a need to wear it while diving, as frankly, given the dive computer, it would be redundant and smack not a little of pretentiousness.

 

[BCC1]

I’m not a diver so I don’t like to tell them what is correct or best (and these watches are definitely marketed as macho diving tools), but from the watchmaker perspective, that is what I have told clients many times. In the days of the Italian WWII divers or Jacques Cousteau, a dive watch was an essential piece of kit. Nowadays, for serious use, it’s an anachronism, kind of like flying a WW1 biplane and insisting on period-correct spark plugs. It may get the job done for a casual dive around a reef, but a modern computer has a lot more features and safety.

Incidentally, for everyone reading this, the water resistance rating on a watch is a technical rating and doesn’t translate intuitively to real life. (I don’t know if other dive equipment is the same way) but this occasionally causes confusion for “desk divers,” especially with low-water resistance dress watches. Most guys read “30 meters water resistance” and assume that it literally means they can dive to 30 meters depth and their watch will be fine. In reality it means that, in theory, on the day the watch left the factory or service center, the watch could be submerged statically to 30 meters and not leak. The problem is, actual swimming (the watch moving through water) can generate pressures of that amount or greater even without the watch actually being submerged. So a true divers watch is generally rated at 150 or nowadays 300 meters (which is of course far deeper than almost any diver could go, at least without extremely specialized equipment) and a watch rated to “100 meters” (your average Rolex, for instance) generally is just considered safe for a surface swim. A 30 meters type watch is generally considered safe for washing your hands or getting caught in the rain.

Yep.

The Breitling superocean was rated at 1,000 meters.

 

[3Crows]

I’m not a diver so I don’t like to tell them what is correct or best (and these watches are definitely marketed as macho diving tools), but from the watchmaker perspective, that is what I have told clients many times. In the days of the Italian WWII divers or Jacques Cousteau, a dive watch was an essential piece of kit. Nowadays, for serious use, it’s an anachronism, kind of like flying a WW1 biplane and insisting on period-correct spark plugs. It may get the job done for a casual dive around a reef, but a modern computer has a lot more features and safety.

I am a diver, all of my life, free and SCUBA. Also an instrument and commercial rated pilot. I use my "divers" and they are not like a WWI biplane. For SCUBA they back my computer, for flying it is handy to use the one way bezel to time approaches or other arrivals and sometimes instead of a sun dial I use them to tell the time. I am not always attached to a cell phone or a power source. Though I do like the Citizen EcoDrive (solar), mechanical self winding watches are kind of like living off the grid, they will not quit for need of a battery or charge as long as they are worn.

 

[HiDive]

I’m not a diver so I don’t like to tell them what is correct or best (and these watches are definitely marketed as macho diving tools), but from the watchmaker perspective, that is what I have told clients many times. In the days of the Italian WWII divers or Jacques Cousteau, a dive watch was an essential piece of kit. Nowadays, for serious use, it’s an anachronism, kind of like flying a WW1 biplane and insisting on period-correct spark plugs. It may get the job done for a casual dive around a reef, but a modern computer has a lot more features and safety.

Incidentally, for everyone reading this, the water resistance rating on a watch is a technical rating and doesn’t translate intuitively to real life. (I don’t know if other dive equipment is the same way) but this occasionally causes confusion for “desk divers,” especially with low-water resistance dress watches. Most guys read “30 meters water resistance” and assume that it literally means they can dive to 30 meters depth and their watch will be fine. In reality it means that, in theory, on the day the watch left the factory or service center, the watch could be submerged statically to 30 meters and not leak. The problem is, actual swimming (the watch moving through water) can generate pressures of that amount or greater even without the watch actually being submerged. So a true divers watch is generally rated at 150 or nowadays 300 meters (which is of course far deeper than almost any diver could go, at least without extremely specialized equipment) and a watch rated to “100 meters” (your average Rolex, for instance) generally is just considered safe for a surface swim. A 30 meters type watch is generally considered safe for washing your hands or getting caught in the rain.

I understand where you are coming from but, there is a lot wrong here and this is not really a watch forum so I will not write a paper on diving watches here. Let me just say that I have been a professional commercial diver since getting my Associates degree in Marine diving technology in the early 1970's I have worked around the country and in South America on offshore oil platforms of various types and have Saturation Diving experience in up to 200 meters; as well as construction of piers and work in and around nuclear power plants. I have owned Rolex and other high end watches since the early 1970's and have since earned a degree in engineering with extra studies in fluid dynamics, presenting papers to the ASME on that subject. I still work as a diver today supervising divers at my company here in Hawaii. I doubt if many 30 meter rated watches will function at 30 meters even brand new. Rolex watches are each tested to well past the depth that they are rated for and can function at their rated depth when they are in good condition. Any device that is not in good shape can fail to do it's intended function if not properly maintained. Moving your arm through the water does not generate any significant or measurable extra pressure or strain on the seals of a watch. Your average Rolex is rated to 330 feet and most can do that although it is not recommended for non-divers models. I have taken my GMT master to over 100 feet without any hesitation, while modern Submariners are rated to 1000 feet and will go there and beyond, the Seadweller is rated to 4000 feet and the Deepsea is rated to 12800. Each of them is tested to past their respective rated depths and will go there if needed. Rolex even constructed a special Deepsea model that has been to the deepest spot in the oceans; the Mariannas trench at 35814 feet deep. Omega has also made a watch that went there. Both were advertising stunts but also extreme engineering feats in their own rights. The deepest that a man in diving gear that is not atmospheric has bee is around 1550 feet. There are probably less than a couple of hundred divers in the world that are qualified in saturation diving to near that depth today. I could go on for a couple of pages but this is it.