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View Poll Results: Happy with your PM or bi metal Rolex swimming on holiday ? | |||
Yes: steam; pool and seawater | 107 | 40.53% | |
Yes: pool and seawater | 62 | 23.48% | |
Yes: steam and seawater | 1 | 0.38% | |
Yes: steam and pool | 6 | 2.27% | |
Yes: Pool only | 23 | 8.71% | |
No | 65 | 24.62% | |
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27 April 2024, 02:52 PM | #31 |
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While wearing any Rolex at a resort is hardly being discreet, flashing a PM or TT Sub or similar eye catching model around the pool or spa is taking it up a notch for me, I wouldn’t wear it.
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27 April 2024, 03:16 PM | #32 |
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I would not. Gold scratches more easily too.
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27 April 2024, 04:34 PM | #33 |
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Yes, wear it anywhere you want and enjoy.
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27 April 2024, 05:51 PM | #34 |
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Voted﹕ steam; pool and seawater
Gold or no gold, I use my watch as a watch, so I wear them everywhere.
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27 April 2024, 08:04 PM | #35 |
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This dial is unique !
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27 April 2024, 09:00 PM | #36 | |
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28 April 2024, 01:50 PM | #37 |
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It's not the chlorine in the pool, its the bromine in the hot tub that will change the color of the gold.
Chlorine can weaken the bond structure of the gold (reason why you should not swim while wearing a gold diamond ring, it does weaken the tines that hold the stone). The bromine reaction to yellow gold is harmless but it will make it look higher karat (more orange). |
28 April 2024, 02:29 PM | #38 | |
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I agree but at a normal spa bromine level of 6ppm (0.00599g/litre] you could be in the spa for a very long time before you noticed any change? I did read a thread a while back where a gold Rolex colour had changed after being in a spa but I’m not sure if the reason was established. I do remember the colour was returned to normal after a visit to a RSC?
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28 April 2024, 03:25 PM | #39 |
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I don’t swim with any of my watches. Too much risk and very little in return.
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28 April 2024, 03:52 PM | #40 |
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I always swim, in the pool, with my watches on, if they are at least 200 m WR. I do not swim in the Ocean with them, though. I’m a little too paranoid about losing them. I do shower with the divers on, as well, but not always. I ‘m not sure if I’ll wear the TT in the pool, though I wear a solid gold necklace in the pool. It hasn’t come up yet.
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28 April 2024, 04:02 PM | #41 |
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That’s why I own Rolex watches, go anywhere do anything. Gold or steel both hold up the same in real life
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28 April 2024, 07:35 PM | #42 | |
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28 April 2024, 11:50 PM | #43 |
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Once I put a watch on my wrist for the day, it’s not coming off. I don’t care what I’m doing.
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28 April 2024, 11:57 PM | #44 | |
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29 April 2024, 12:32 AM | #45 |
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I have in the past, but typically do not use my PM in water settings.
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29 April 2024, 01:24 AM | #46 |
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Do not.
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29 April 2024, 01:54 AM | #47 |
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Your Rolex is tougher than your skin. If your body can take it, the Rolex will be unaffected.
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29 April 2024, 03:05 AM | #48 |
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Just no steam bec of the heat
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29 April 2024, 11:25 PM | #49 |
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29 April 2024, 11:34 PM | #50 |
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No concerns here :)
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29 April 2024, 11:41 PM | #51 |
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If Rolex didn't want you yo wear them in water they wouldn't bother to put twin-lock or trip-lock gaskets in the crown.
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30 April 2024, 05:27 AM | #52 |
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Before clutching your pearls, read this.
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/br...the-golden-sub Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
30 April 2024, 06:21 AM | #53 | |
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I know that my Submariner is stronger than I am underwater but, as a new diver, reading a clear, digital dive computer is a lot easier than counting minutes against a rotating bezel. I'm sure Mr. Padi can do it twice upside down in the dark without a mask. I'm not at that level yet.
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30 April 2024, 06:58 AM | #54 |
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I dove with my first Submariner (16613) once! I had a barracuda eyeing my wrist the whole dive. That was the last time I dove with a Rolex.
Now, I dive always hoping to find a Rolex sitting happily on the reef where I could collect it. As I am quite older, I simply don’t see a need to dive with an expensive watch on my wrist. I have a Shearwater dive computer on my left wrist and an Aeris Manta backup on my right. I will happily wear my 16618 in the pool/hot tub.
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30 April 2024, 12:13 PM | #55 |
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That mark on the bezel at 45 is from a great white shark. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
30 April 2024, 02:52 PM | #56 |
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30 April 2024, 03:02 PM | #57 |
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I wouldn't dive with the new PM Deep Sea.
You might never make it back up. |
1 May 2024, 09:52 AM | #58 |
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I once wore what were then 30 year old four digit OPs, whilst swimming hundreds of km in highly dosed public pools, and in ocean pools, and on the odd occasion in the surf. There was no issue.
A full gold watch should be basically immune to corrosion. Gold treasure sits at the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of years with zero corrosion. TT may, or may not be different. The 904-L SS in our watches is protected normally by its natural ceramic coating, however, friction, and or the proximity of gold in salt water, may or may not create a corrosion potential. I do however strongly suggest that you always wash your watches in fresh clean water after any swimming, and, that you do not wear your watches in hot showers. |
1 May 2024, 12:27 PM | #59 |
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1 May 2024, 12:31 PM | #60 |
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Yes
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