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20 April 2020, 02:26 AM | #1 |
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Rolex Helium Escape valve beginners guide
A guide to Rolex Helium escape valve. Hopefully it can bring someone value!
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20 April 2020, 12:00 PM | #2 |
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Not too shabby an explanation but this also highlights the utter pointlessness of Omega's HEV. It is a total waste of time and design given it must be manually operated to open and close. There's another HEV at 3 o'clock that works on the same way.
And for those that say ooohhhhhh, don't use the crown, it's too much stress, I call, bull$>!t. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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Thanks for sharing the recent review by Millenary - nice bubble pic, too. I think our newer members who aren’t experts will find it understandable and well illustrated. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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Great info thanks.
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An old thread but:
The information from Millenary Watches is proof of their lack of understanding. Water can’t get past a one way HE valve mainly because it doesn’t operate when under water. As for the manual HE valve how would a wearer know when to open it without knowing when the internal pressure is about to blow the crystal off. Millenary Watches didn’t know the internal pressure that will activate the HEV on a Rolex but we know it is about 35 psi. All in all a pretty useless description of an HE valve by MW.
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For the auto, because it's auto. With the Seamaster it's about them being different. And it is that simple. Helium just needs an avenue to escape when the pressure builds. Getting out via the crown will happen long before it pops the crystal. Saturation divers actually used this method. Remember this is not an issue in the water. It's an issue during decompression I n a dry environment in casual clothes. The only divers that need this feature anyway are those divers, 99% commercial, that five deap enough and long enough where the air tanks are given a component of helium. They are given this to add pressure to their lungs. Being such a small partical, small amounts of helium can get into other places. Ie watch. As air pressure on the body begins to normalize in the watch in the decompression chamber, the helium has to escape, if any has penetrated. For the Seamaster it's all marketing. I used to hate it, but... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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In the first place it was an auto escape valve. These are useful because you don't need to do anything yourself or remember. Besides the HEV being utterly useless in the Seamaster watch, it is still a thing of beauty. That's why I have one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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Great read, thanks. Makes me appreciate my DSSD that much more.
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