Thread: Apple Watch
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gsxrboy
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2014-09-09, 20:28

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Originally Posted by Dorian Gray View Post
Watches are water resistant to a specified depth (i.e. pressure), and you can bet your last dollar the Apple Watch will be waterproof in any practical non-scuba-diving sense.
That's not strictly true. A watch that states WR50 on it (or 5ATM), implies from the manufacturer that it's resistant to 50m but it's nothing of the sort. In a lab, tested with no moving liquid over it, the pressure might be the same but it's not in real life. Anything below WR100 and you're lucky if it doesn't die even jumping in a pool. WR50 should never be submerged in liquid for any period of time and ATM3 or 30m (notionally) can die from a splash of water or rain in the wrong direction. The best case ratings from manus are fresh from the box, with perfect seals, and in idea lab conditions.

A watch that states "divers 100" or "divers 200" etc are properly* tested and can be scuba dived with to those real depths etc.

* Providing it's a reliable manufacturer and not cheap marketing logo/font/branding/etc/blahblah.
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