: I'm tempted to just say "Hell No!",
: but seeing as I don't know what the chemical
: composition of Omega gaskets actually are, I
: can't say that with complete authority. (I
: am a organic chemist.)
: Apart from that, I think the chances of
: anything happeing are incredibly remote.
: Fact #1 - that blue stuff out there in the
: ocean isn't a mixture of pure distilled
: water and salt - it is a pretty much
: uviversal soup of every ionic species and
: halogen in the periodic table. Sodium
: chloride just happens to be the biggest
: component.
: Fact #2 - chemical reactivity is a function of
: both temperature and pressure, and if you
: raise either one the reactivity increases
: enormously. The SeMP (including its gaskets)
: is good for 30 atmospheres of pressure, (1
: atm = 15 psi) which means it can stand up to
: EVERYTHING in seawater at 450 PSI.
: I keep my SeMP on my wrist (with the crown
: screwed into place!!) in seawater, fresh
: water, the shower, the pool, the hot tob,
: and green beer on March 17th.
: By the way, the worst that can happen if you
: keep it on your wrist and manage to put your
: arm in something that can eat through the
: gaskets is you wind up with a watch that
: needs to be fixed. If you start taking a
: really nice four figure watch like an Omega
: SeMP off your wrist for various special
: circumstances, it could
: "evaporate" and you would wind up
: with no watch at all!
dear seismic,
thanks for the thorough response.i agree that "evaporation" off the wrist is a much more serious threat.
