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Re: Is that your question?

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I have a beater tag diving watch I wear on my run around rough days and I have had it for 12 years.

I have slammed it into concrete walls, dropped it and done everything possible with it. In the time I have had it I have opened the back up twice for a battery change.

It is a quartz, but the main point for this discussion is I wash it under the tap every day and there have never been problems with it. What is the point of getting something pressure tested? If you break the seal such as use the crown a lot or open the back up a lot. If it is screwed in steel to steel, it will take a lot to let water in and for arguments sake - how many people actually dive with their dive watches to a depth where seal failure wil occur.

I think the thing with automatic watches is if one is always opening and winding or adjusting something so there is a propensity for wear on the steel and wear and breakage with a seal then leakage will probably occur.

If you minimize the crown usage I do not think one needs to have it pressure tested every year. I'm sure there is some marketing involved here to make people spend money to keep these service centers in the black and also to protect themselves from liability issues. Sure some will leak, but many will not.