Sometimes I have to wash dishes by hand in our household and I would like to know what the forum consensus is about wearing ones watch for such activity? Do you always take it off or leave it on and risk it?
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On my recent thread i just spent over £7000 on a Rolex for my wife and within two days i caught her washing up and cooking with the watch on.
Still searching on the website to see if this will damage the watch...
Depends if its waterproof...
Dishes fine, as long as the water isn’t too hot and there is steam.
My deep sea got wrecked in a sauna recently
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I have bashed my watch against the tap when washing up, so depending on the watch I may take it off.
My Sea Dweller has been in pool, shower, steam room,?shower, sauna, pool! Also bi metal sub before I sold it.Originally Posted by Gordon76
So has my Samurai Save the Ocean???
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It's the soap you need to worry about Martyn - them bubbles can cause so much havoc. To be on the safe side I wouldn't risk it unless it has at least 300m water resistance. Maybe buy this 1000m badboy for the duties - https://www.fratellowatches.com/citi...omaster-1000m/
Right tool for the job!
When I read that Jacques Cousteau wouldn't go anywhere near a washing up bowl I bought a dishwasher and I've never looked back.
F.T.F.A.
Lol
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What did you do - repeatedly hit it on the side of the sauna?
It's just a matter of time...
Always do. If the watch can’t cope it’s rubbish!
Rolex, Seiko, Invicta and Vostok all coped!
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The problem isn't the heat or steam, not initially at least. The real problem is the washing up liquid lowering the surface tension of the water, making it easier to penetrate the case via the crown. Personally, I wouldn't risk it with anything other than my U1, even a HEV is vulnerable.
Rubbish.
The surface tension of the water is only an issue if the watch is on the absolute margins of water resistence. For an old watch, with knackered seals, the ‘wetter’ water might just push it over the edge, but for a watch in decent condition it won’t be an issue.
Whoosh and whoosh and whoosh again.
As Franz Kafka said: “The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.”
He is hilarious!!!!!
Oh, bless.
Rolex' maintenance sheet (AND the website) tells us that cleaning your Rolex with '...soapy water...' (yes!) is the perfect way to keep your watch shiny.
Personally, I take my watches off. I wear all my watches on nato straps and I don't like the wet strap on my wrist.
Menno
You should be ok but make sure you have a Brillo pad nearby incase you need to polish out any accidental swirlies!
50m WR more than sufficient for washing the dishes.
I wouldn’t get one in the water after talking to someone who’s had one from new and had it back to omega twice after taking in water. Bit more than washing up but he took it swimming & it fogged up, sent it back and had it all gratis serviced, re-sealed and tested. I saw him the other day and he wasn’t wearing it, asked why & he said it was back to omega as he swam with it and it took water in again. He did say he kicked off saying they’d sold him a divers watch so it should be water proof (haha) so be interesting if they sort it again.50m WR more than sufficient for washing the dishes.
I did explain to him just what a load of nonsense the WR depth ratings are and that I wouldn’t even do more than wash my hands with a Chronograph and he was a bit shocked. He’d assumed he could go deep see diving with it!
Nightmare situation, assume you've contacted John Lewis and the like to get on the waiting list for a dishwasher? In the meantime you should consider buying ('investing in') 3-4 beaters - the bits of crab shell and lobster claw will just add Wabi over the long run.
HTH.
I occasionally do KP shifts at work. So 8 hours straight of washing dishes and having it submerged in very hot very soapy water full of oil and God knows what else. Not an issue.
In my practice I do all the gynecological exams with my watch on
Never lost it or damaged by fluids
I personally put my watch in airtight container near sink to avoid accidental splashes of water and soap.
I had exactly the same issues with an Oris divers watch I bought in the early 70’s bought new from Fattrenni’s (Sheffield jewellers)Sorry can’t spell it.
Went swimming took on water. Looked like a cool wrist spirit level. Took it back, got a brand new one. Went swimming next week, whooosh wrist spirit level. Took it back and got my money back. Never forgiven Oris
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I’ve no idea how the majority of ‘divers watch’ manufacturers got away with it in the 60’s and 70’s having worked on a fair few. I wouldn’t even wear one watching Bob Carolgees!
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I was flabbergasted when they gave me my money back and they basically admitted it shouldn’t be used in water. Not sure what a diver was supposed to do? Hold his arm out of water! That’s not diving!!!!!!I’ve no idea how the majority of ‘divers watch’ manufacturers got away with it in the 60’s and 70’s having worked on a fair few. I wouldn’t even wear one watching Bob Carolgees!
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He keeps it safe up a stuffed dogs ar$eI’ve no idea how the majority of ‘divers watch’ manufacturers got away with it in the 60’s and 70’s having worked on a fair few. I wouldn’t even wear one watching Bob Carolgees!
Heart palpitation...50m WR more than sufficient for washing the dishes.
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More importantly, can one do the washing up in a hot tub?
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
I’ve used a twin tub but only once
The key thing the op has missed is how deep is the sink?
If say it was a plastic bowl, I would be happy to use a water resistant watch. If it was a full commercial sink as found in hotels restaurants etc, I would only trust my sub with its enhanced water resistance
Hth
Steve
I don’t let my housekeeper wear my watches .
:)
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Facepalm
Yup. I now understand the vote to leave the EU.
Watches only come off for bed, if I'm going to be doing DIY or tinkering with the car the beater gets put on.
Washing dishes I leave them all on, never had a problem yet.
Surely this thread is not genuine!
On the other hand, how do people clean their watches??
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I think that there is a an ironic slant to this thread - a slight satire on people who are overly terrified of bringing of getting even diver's watches wet, and those who wouldn't do the dishes unless they were wearing a WR300m+ watch with no chrono pushers, screw down crown and an HEV.
The only watch I let get seriously wet is a Seadweller. Others, even at 10atm, I am slightly cautious with. Stuff doesn't always work as advertised, seals age. Why take the risk? So, if they get a soaking by accident, fine, but I won't do it deliberately. And certainly not with models below 10atm.
I don’t deliberately immerse watches, but that’s more from habit than any other reason; I often end up wearing watches with zero WR so I don’t get into the habit dunking my hands under water with a watch on.
If a watch has 30 metres WR it’ll be fine for immersion provided the seals are in good condition. Likewise a diver rated at 300metres will leak whilst washing up if the seals are really shot.
Water inside a watch is bad news and best avoided, but for pratical everyday wearing a watch needs to be splashproof for obvious reasons.
Yep, if it were me I’d buy one of them Melly dishwashers from Germany - they’re meant to be very good you know.
PS Don’t put your watch in it though! 😀👍
OP, two words: dynamic pressure.
How vigorously do you agitate the dishes?
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
You / we must buy disposable paper plates and plastic cups immediately, or until this topic runs to 45 pages and we reach a consensus once and for all.
Cheers..
Jase
My partner's £100 Citizen went through a two-hour wash cycle (don't ask) and, a year later, still works fine and is used for swimming several times a week.
I stick my watches in the dishwasher too, gets them nice and shiny.
Slight fogging issues with the Lange, but I think that's more to do with the weather, first frost etc.
I don't understand, why is your missus not doing the washing up?
😉
Is that what Charles Atlas talks about in his seminal book on washing up ?
I accidentally shoved my watch into the dishwasher once - the noise she made was excruciating
Gray
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