Reply With QuoteI love Camber - one of my favourite places to go with the kids.
As for taking a watch like that swimming.... have you gone insane??
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A little live report: Just got back from a shot beach holiday at Camber Sands - with grand daughter and family. It involved making sand castles- burying friends children in sand, sea swimming. I ended up taking the 126600 - very robust and being on a generic rubber strap meant not having to worry about scratching up the bracelet rolling down the sand dunes. It lived up to the rough and tumble of a small child
Anyway. Have to unpack now.
Martyn.
I love Camber - one of my favourite places to go with the kids.
As for taking a watch like that swimming.... have you gone insane??
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Lovely looking place. Glad to hear the Deep Sea was still working at the end of it
Did you ever own a SD43? I was searching on the forum for both references when this popped up. Would be keen to hear the thoughts of a forum Sensei.
I’d have to go with my old IWC 3536
Titanium, with rubber strap and bezel under the crystal = no sand or salt to cause the bezel to stick
Bulletproof beach / sailing watch sadly missed.
My SD43 will need a bit more Care, nice though it is....
Definitely a cheap Casio person on the beach.
I tend to be dubious about mixing a watch with a rotating bezel and sand.
That being said I wore my DSSD when helping my elder daughter on her surfing lessons last summer. The bracelet allowed me to get on over the wetsuit (5/4/3) easily.
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Cheap and cheerful makes sense to me....wearing expensive luxury watches on the beach, doesn’t. This is WR to 300 metres and has a lock-down crown, but even at retail costs a few hundred quid.
Incidentally, i know Camber well; the tides there are deceptive and can be dangerous. Slightly west, at Winchelsea beach is safer.
Always amuses be that vids like this are seemingly meant to come as a surprise that a professional dive watch can be used on the beach and in the sea.Originally Posted by Lammylee
I wear my CWC RN Diver for beach holidays, but I like to go away with just a single low value watch.
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I just spent all last week going to the beach with my Siduna on. Paddleboarding in quite large (but messy) surf for 1-2 hrs every day, and one session of coasteering with several jumps up to 30 ft or so. Siduna on a YellowDog Tropic 3-ring Zulu - perfect combo.
There is really no point whatsoever to my mind in owning nice waterproof watches and not using them for your activities in water.
Dave
I was there when the 5 lads drowned a few years back, helicopter landed right next to us. Trying to distract the kids from looking at the bodies wasn’t easy when they’re marvelling at the chopper!Cheap and cheerful makes sense to me....wearing expensive luxury watches on the beach, doesn’t. This is WR to 300 metres and has a lock-down crown, but even at retail costs a few hundred quid.
Incidentally, i know Camber well; the tides there are deceptive and can be dangerous. Slightly west, at Winchelsea beach is safer.
I’ll take that with a pinch of salt. It a sorry time when you can’t take a watch design to be water proof to 1200m in some surf and sand. Obviously it’s insured against loss or damage.I love Camber - one of my favourite places to go with the kids.
As for taking a watch like that swimming.... have you gone insane??
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We we were up the ‘quite’ end. No many swimmers - still a bit cold
Martyn.
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I get it. 16600 my beach watch...
This is my beach/holiday watch, perfect.
I'm sure that a lot of watches can easily cope with the sea & sand, it's just the abrasive nature of sand that sends shivers down my back. Mucking about on the sand will soon show up as serious scratches, not faint swirlies on your beloved Sub, Seamaster, whatever.
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This is my beach/holiday watch, perfect.
I've no idea why I'm drawn to orange lately, just ordered an orange nato!
Anyway seriously liking that watch!
Lovely watch and this picture highlights the Omega quality of recent times.This is my beach/holiday watch, perfect.
This is my beach/holiday watch, perfect.
Anytime you get bored with this - anytime.....
I'd never take my SD43 to the beach. I wear cheap and cheerful divers instead. They get scratched, which I'm ok with, being beaters.
Agreed. We are well past the point where any Rolex could be seen as a ‘tool’ watch. Now they are luxury toys; fortunately we like toys.....
...and we like playing with our toys as well!
How likely are rotating bezels likely to be damaged by sand or salt?
Surely a watch designed for diving can cope with sand and salt? Can those pesky grains of sand really get under a bezel?
Worn in the Atlas Mountains , Sahara , Beaches of Agadir it did the job
I used to wear my 16600 SD in the sea until I read on here of someone whose springbar broke and they lost their Rolex on the seabed. I then moved to a Seiko PADI (more recently the Solar version).
My 83 16800 Sub. I have dived in 5 different Seas and Oceans with it and just returned from 2 weeks in Turkey wearing it.
These watches were designed and built to survive. No point in owning them if you don't wear them.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My typical beach watch are either one of these
Usually when I go to Bali,I spent more time eating,lounging and relaxing in the spa instead of going to the beach...
A point that seems to get lost now with the price and the fact a mass number of the market want these for investments and status symbols.
I always seem to admire a well worn Rolex one that’s seen life over a safe queen.
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Seiko SUN23 is my go to holiday watch
Comfy, true GMT, great lume, robust and kinetic powered so no batteries to worry about. I bought in Jo’burg when they first came out and it goes on every trip with me as my only watch.
Fish seem to like it as well.
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Sand is pretty abrasive, as mentioned by others I would be concerned about getting it in the rotating bezel.
Not that you can't do it, but especially with concerns about scuffing the case / bracelet, I'd have thought a gshock of some description would be perfect.
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Holiday / beach watch by the pool...
On rubber for comfort & Getting plenty of solar energy for charging on this trip...
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I've killed two G-Shocks at the beach. One surfing - big wipeout smashed me into the bottom. When I was paddling back out, it was full of water. It had lasted 6 years though as my only watch, so happy with that.
Its replacement was only about a year old when I fell off a Supercharged SeaDoo jet ski, trying to nudge 100knots. When I woke up, bobbing in the sea in my life jacket, it was still working, but I could see water in it. By the time I got back to land it was dead.
On both of them, Casio refused a warranty replacement.
I wear my Pelagos on a rubber NATO for holiday/beach/swimming and general travelling abroad duties. For me, it would be the complete all-rounder if it was available with a GMT function.
Bought a Pelagos blue dial watch at start of the year of here and didn't really take to it on the original rubber strap. It's just spent two weeks on my wrist, on the rubber, on a family holiday in Kalkan Turkey and have to say I think it's a great holiday / beach watch. Now that I'm home in the UK though, it's back on the bracelet.
Probably this one, plus changing time zone is child's play.
For me it’s usually the 16570 when I travel. Cheap and adorned with scratches already means no need to be precious.
This one’s not doing so bad
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