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Watch nerds are usually the least underwater group of people I've ever met and NEEDING high water resistance in a watch is silly (most of the time).
Yay! Someone hit on one of my biggest pet peeves, so I get to talk about it.
200m of resistance is more than enough for the majority of people. Which makes the comments about the difference between the Pelagos and the Pelagos FXD funny to me
50m is more than enough for most people
It's the same reason why people "need" AWD or 4WD on their car which they never use outside a city in decent weather...
What if I get caught in the rain? I’m too fat to run and too poor to own a car.
Caught doing what in the rain?
The werewolf subset can hide their watch under their arm fur. At least that's what I do
I got caught in the rain whilst wearing my Speedy one day last year (rated to 50M WR), so posted a pic of it with raindrops on the dial on the Omega sub and jokingly asked if I should throw it away now. The amount of replies suggesting that I should do stuff like put it in a bowl of rice was depressingly hilarious.
Let's be honest... There are a ton of dive watch owners that will never swim with their watch even though they could. The average person just doesn't like wearing a watch in the water and if they are, they'd rather it do stuff like track heartrate and distance as opposed to just time