Can a new model Rolex handle crashing waves/surfing? Will clasp stay shut?

[DeeTee]

Just wondering before I lose my watch to the pacific.
Is the clasp strong enough to stay in place while doing an activity like surfing?

[superdog]

Of course it is.

[tkerrmd]

Never had any Rolex clasp ever pop open during any activity

[beer]

i have heard stories of them falling off when a board caught them at the right angle...

do you really need to wear a rolex while surfing?

unless it is one of those poser surf days why not just leave it in the safe and not let it lessen your enjoyment!

[DeeTee]

Originally Posted by beer

i have heard stories of them falling off when a board caught them at the right angle...

do you really need to wear a rolex while surfing?

unless it is one of those poser surf days why not just leave it in the safe and not let it lessen your enjoyment!

Don't feel comfortable wearing it off my wrist on vacation.

[subtona]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Don't feel comfortable wearing it off my wrist on vacation.

Could not agree more, it stays on my wrist especially when traveling. Hotel safes have been compromised too often.


That said yours may be the only legit is it safe thread I have ever read...if the watch drops in deep water it will be a mofo to find it

I have worn an older sub doing everything my life has encountered rock climbing & smacking off the side, off road motorcycling and crashing, skiing and falling, diving both water and desk, outrunning a bull in a pitch black field of a foreign country & falling in the process (while I wasn't hurt, it did result in the urgent need of a laundry and shower), even digging through the rubble of fallen smoldering skyscrapers etc...

and it never came close to falling off.

[Etschell]

Originally Posted by subtona

Could not agree more, it stays on my wrist especially when traveling. Hotel safes have been compromised too often.


That said yours may be the only legit is it safe thread I have ever read...if the watch drops in deep water it will be a mofo to find it

I have worn an older sub doing everything my life has encountered rock climbing & smacking off the side, off road motorcycling and crashing, skiing and falling, diving both water and desk, outrunning a bull in a pitch black field of a foreign country & falling in the process (while I wasn't hurt, it did result in the urgent need of a laundry and shower), even digging through the rubble of fallen smoldering skyscrapers etc...

and it never came close to falling off.

be careful in the Caribbean. some places they will chop your wrist off with a machete to get the watch. not joking.

[silverbullet818]

Originally Posted by Etschell

be careful in the Caribbean. some places they will chop your wrist off with a machete to get the watch. not joking.

Really? I thought this was an urban myth

[locutus49]

Is it safe

[Gasoil4ever]

Originally Posted by locutus49

Is it safe

Now I am crying out of desperation...

[Speed]

Do you plan to time yourself while you are getting tubular? 😂

[Langnam]

I had the clasp of my TT Sub come undone while on the waterslide at Atlantis in the Bahamas. I didn't even feel the watch slide off.

Fortunately, I disregarded the sign telling me not to dive back in and search for valuables.

I found it before the help did. 😀

So perhaps a Rolex clasp on a Sub is not a good idea for surfing.


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[Bakasana]

You can only wear your rolex when diving into a bowl of soup... the only diving allowed with any rolex, especially a sports variation. Proceed with caution.

[landroverking]

You can't get one wet.

[Rockrolex]

You should never wear a Rolex anywhere at any time. You should send it to me for safekeeping. I will make sure the surf doesn't get to it.

[Duke84]

If you're worried about damaging or losing your watch while surfing, take it off and enjoy your time in the ocean.

[HogwldFLTR]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Just wondering before I lose my watch to the pacific.
Is the clasp strong enough to stay in place while doing an activity like surfing?

Maybe hold off on wearing while surfing Pipeline or Mavericks.

[SeaAndSky]

I've spent much of my time on this planet immersed in the oceans chasing waves. The clasp can take it right up until you find that one wave that rolls you in to the beach sans watch. Unless I had way more money than sense I'd never wear a Rolex into the surf zone.

[Fozzy]

The question should be.. Will the spring bars take the pressure of hitting the edge of my surfboard or slamming hard into the surf?
Your clasp will be fine, your spring bars, that's a different matter.
Scuba diving yes, snorkelling yes, swimming yes, surfing em.

[DeeTee]

Tough crowd!

Thanks for all the input guys, I'll try to hide it in the glove compartment and lock it.
I've known of people having bad luck with hotel safes in 5 star hotels, I always keep it on when I travel, just never done activity this strenuous on the clasp and/or springbar.

[T. Ferguson]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Tough crowd!

Thanks for all the input guys, I'll try to hide it in the glove compartment and lock it.
I've known of people having bad luck with hotel safes in 5 star hotels, I always keep it on when I travel, just never done activity this strenuous on the clasp and/or springbar.

Problem solved if you're staying in a five star hotel. They will undoubtedly have safe deposit boxes available for hotel guests in the hotel safe. I don't trust room safes either. Stow it in the hotel safe if you don't want to wear it surfing. I don't like the glove box any better than a room safe.

BTW, I'd be more concerned about a wipe out slamming the crystal into the board or a rock and cracking it than I would be about it falling off.

[Chuckred]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Tough crowd!

Thanks for all the input guys, I'll try to hide it in the glove compartment and lock it.
I've known of people having bad luck with hotel safes in 5 star hotels, I always keep it on when I travel, just never done activity this strenuous on the clasp and/or springbar.

I'd chance the safe before a rental car glove box and would wear the watch before leaving in a rental car.

[Sublover2166]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Just wondering before I lose my watch to the pacific.
Is the clasp strong enough to stay in place while doing an activity like surfing?

You have not stated what watch it is. A newer Sub?

[DeeTee]

I was planning on doing the SS YM2

[waterman1]

I've surfed all over with my sea dweller on a nato. Put it on a Maratac and you should be fine. Mine has handled as big as 12' w no problem.

[breitlings]

A Rolex can withstand anything. Even the lava at mordor.

[ltmgeller]

Originally Posted by breitlings

A Rolex can withstand anything. Even the lava at mordor.

One Rolex to rule them all

[SeaAndSky]

Originally Posted by waterman1

I've surfed all over with my sea dweller on a nato. Put it on a Maratac and you should be fine. Mine has handled as big as 12' w no problem.

Like you I'm a waterman as well. I've surfed plenty all over the world and ridden plenty of double and triple overhead swells. As a result I know for certain the ocean has enough energy to strip a watch from my wrist quite easily. Unless of course it were tucked under a wetsuit like I'm usually wearing at home in the Pacific Northwest. But even then I take it off just in case. I'm surprised you think that a 12' wave is that benign. You must be a Mavericks and Jaws local.

[stainlesssteve]

Originally Posted by SeaAndSky

Like you I'm a waterman as well. I've surfed plenty all over the world and ridden plenty of double and triple overhead swells. As a result I know for certain the ocean has enough energy to strip a watch from my wrist quite easily. Unless of course it were tucked under a wetsuit like I'm usually wearing at home in the Pacific Northwest. But even then I take it off just in case. I'm surprised you think that a 12' wave is that benign. You must be a Mavericks and Jaws local.

I use to surf at Westport in PNW 30 years ago as a kid. I think my wetsuit was a half inch thick...

[SeaAndSky]

Originally Posted by stainlesssteve

I use to surf at Westport in PNW 30 years ago as a kid. I think my wetsuit was a half inch thick...

We probably spent some time together at the jetty. Uncrowded weekdays are fun there on nice long period West swells. Remember Al's shop? I know him pretty well. Wetsuit technology has come a LONG way. I've been wearing Patagonia's rubber for several years now and you barely even know you have it on. Hard to believe we used to go ot there in thick restrictive Hotlines and Jack O's.