A Basic Guide To Caring For Your Wristwatch: Part 2
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Daily Use
Am I allowed to get my watch wet?
How wet you can get your watch relies on how wet the watch was made to get! As a general rule, a WR30m watch is designed to be splashed, a WR50m is OK for light swimming but not really lengthened immersion, a WR100m watch is fine for swimming and a WR200m can be considered a diver's watch and can stay under a long time. Where you get your watch wet is also important. Try to avoid hot water for all watches; soap can inflict damage on the watch and the heat can distort seals. Watch seals also don't fare well against the chlorine in swimming pools, so wash it off in fresh water after swimming in a pool. Also use clean water to wash out the salt after swimming in the ocean.
What about heat and sunlight?
Heat in the form of saunas etc. isn't actually advocated, particularly if you take a sauna and then enter the icy waters of the plunge pool! Quite simply, quick hot to cold like that implies that something may contract rather rapidly, if that something relies on a seal which has dropped thanks to the heat then you may injure your timepiece. Also, any watch will have some moisture in it simply because it has air in it; fast cooling means this could condense, possibly only to disappear again but it could leave a stain under the crystal.
Heat in terms of wearing the watch in hot weather often cannot be helped, especially if you live in a hot area of the planet. However, if at all possible, avoid leaving / wearing the watch in direct powerful daylight; firstly the watch is going to get extraordinarily hot which won't do the lubricants much good; secondly, direct sunlight like that can prematurely age dials and cause dial lacquers to lift or micro bubble. This isn't to say that your watch should be kept under shirt sleeves whenever the sun is out! It's simply a case of using common sense and trying not to cook yourself or your watch!
Is my watch shockproof?
It could be, but it's best not to purposely test its ability; although mechanical watches are fitted with shockproof, it's still best not to expose them to vibration, sudden shocks, and dropping. Mechanical watches are pretty tough but there's a limit; exposing the watch to grim shock can at the least affect timekeeping and at worst will cause mechanical failure.
My watch claims Antimagnetic on the back.
Watches are antimagnetic to a certain depress - meaning, timekeeping won't be adversely affected because they are made to stand exposure to limited magnetic fields. However, it is only specialist watches which have been built to withstand high magnetic fields that should be exposed to such. So, for our everyday automatic what should we avoid. First, remember that there are lots of metal inside mechanical watches, and each element interact with the others. It any of these delicate components is magnetized, the watch may stop altogether, or run terribly erratically. This is not something most people have to fret about.
Try to not get too worried about it, try and avoid getting your timepiece too close to magnets, stereo speakers, PC monitors...even the rubber magnetized seal around the refrigerator door. All these are a potential source of difficulty.
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