Originally Posted by
ghosty
if you read the WUS topic, there is claims that it's a set up,
I would be very surprised if this was a set up. The issue there is the way this watch (and many others too) are designed and constructed by the case maker and the lack of quality control during assembly. Its not a matter of a faulty seal. When I buy a brand new dive watch from a producer who claims 1000m or 200m I would never go and have it tested before I dive with it. If it fails then it's a faulty product and the warranty must cover it. A different story with a second hand watch. Also, that watch started to leak at 130 feet, if it was my watch, it would have been no issue at all as I seldom ever dive deeper than 50 feet.
We just need to remember that while in theory it is all so simple, proper professional waterproof watches have been here for the past 60 or so years and when they first hit the market it was a huge achievement to produce them in masses.
At lot of the current offerings survive by the fact that the watches are never used for what they claim they can do. A serious dive watch in my opinion uses multiple crown, crystal and case back seals and needs to be of a minimum material thickness to withstand the pressure.
A couple of years back a German Watch magazine tested some of the brand divers and while most of them did not leak, lots of them stopped working before they reached their depth rating as the case was compressed and this stopped the movement.