zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

Geoff,

I've showered with one for four years, bathed with one, taken it into the hot tub, taken it diving in cold and topical climates, it's gone mountaineering... The works. It's a robust little feller, the quartz SMP which I had longest was absolutely hammered, it got hit, bumped, dinged, dunked and jumped out of a plane and it was within +1 second after three months and as water resistant as the day it was born. A really fantastic piece of equipment and certainly the most hard wearing item in my inventory. It's outlasted everything that's taken abuse on a par.

I think while you're right about temperature variations affecting the rubber rings, it would take a serious temperature jump, far more than the gradual change of a hot tub, to cause a split in the rubber or to sufficiently stress it to render it ineffective.

Pete J