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SD waterproof rating of 4000 ft. WHY?
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Here are a few obvious questions coming your way...please answer them as best you can. Thanks!! ![]() 1. What is the maximum depth a professional trained diver can go down to with the usual breathing apparatus, but only wearing a normal dive suit? 2. What is the maximum depth a professional trained diver can go down to with a special extra thick diving suit and the huge metal helmet on top? 3. Whatever the depth, I'm pretty sure no human being on earth can get anywhere even close to 4,000 ft without being crushed like a tin can. So why this enormous depth rating on the SD when it can never be actually WORN by any man to that depth? Cheers - JJ
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Well, seeing as how you didn't specify that the diver needed to return alive, I would say the answer to #1 and #2 is ~36000 feet (the Challenger Deep; the deepest part of the ocean)
Therefore the answer to #3 is "That's the best Rolex can do! ![]() Seriously, I don't really know. |
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In case you are diving and it slips off of your wrist. Then if some oceanographers are looking for parts of the Titanic or something with a remote controlled robot sub and if they find it on the ocean bottom and can retrieve it they have a functioning watch.
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I think we are looking at this the wrong way.
The SD can withstand the pressure to 4000ft but what we need to ask is can it withstand the pressure of being on JJ's wrist? Its only a matter of time before it becomes worried about heading on down to flipper land... ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Okay, you tossers, you've had your laughs (as usual)....now how about some serious answers?
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I'd actually be interested in any knowledgeable replies,did Rolex create this tool watch specifically to meet specs for this depth rating, or did they "just" produce it then tested it till it blew-up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
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well crushed actually i guess
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HE valve would save it
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But you fellas are missing the whole point of this thread. My question is why have a watch which can take all the pressures of 4000 ft. when the person wearing it CANNOT!!!!!! ![]()
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one more of my thoughts, its just the waterproof rating right
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Found these to be interesting:
http://www.themercury.co.za/index.ph...icleId=2555327 http://www.mediacen.navy.mil/pubs/al...jun00/pg14.htm |
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Ok, I'm not a diver so I have to defer to those that are, but my guess (and it's only that) is the depth rating was an out growth of the improved HE valve that came out on the reference 16660. This, along with the thicker case and saphire crystal led to the greater depth rating.
Lot's of information here under COMEX, http://www.doubleredseadweller.com/ |
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Very interesting. I was thinking the samething about the rating. Guess it is for the brag'ing rights.
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The first, in my opinion, is that Rolex makes a watch with that rating because people want it, or like it. Yes JJ, that means you! ![]() Second thought: The rating is for 4,000 ft static water pressure. I wonder what pressure the seals may see if diving into water head first from 20ft? Or taking a spill water sking? |
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In fact, someone once posted an interesting thread with fantastic pics of an SD actually undergoing this treatment....and coming back up in full working order!! ![]()
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So that Rolex can say they "did it". How many other watch brands can make that claim and prove it. Kind of like swimming the English Channel one cold October 7th day in 1927 and proving Rolex superiority(myth or fact???). Yeh babe, Who's you Daddy!
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Between the SD and the IWC, I am still wanting that IWC aquatimer, with 2000m rating.
http://www.time2watch.net/IWChome.htm Not that I will ever go beyond 50M, but for the gimmick factor.
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JJ,
I don't think you'll have to worry too much if your SD will survive a 4K' dive my friend. ![]() First thing you'll have to do is learn to "swim" without the use of your "water wings". ![]() Then you'll be able to go deeper than your 2 foot inflatable above ground backyard pool. ![]()
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Why the rating to 4000 ft....so they can charge more for it.
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AS for ratings, how about the GP SeaHawk Pro rated to 3000meters!
I do know that about the deepest recreational dive I ever did was about 150 feet deep. Anything over 90 feet is considered a "Deep" dive. One of the guys I worked with was a diver in the Navy and then later a commercial diver. The deepest he ever went was 350 feet. That was in a special suit and breathing some weird gas mixture. |
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I think the reason for the 4000' depth rating is for that special someone who may find themselves suddenly wearing cement block shoes and being thrown overboard.
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Oh come on! Like anyone who would get thrown overboard wearing cement shoes would ever be seen wearing a watch with any stainless steel in it. Now if the SD cam in YG, that would be another matter! ![]() |
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