/fa/ - Fashion

Finished up this Cosmotron yesterday, now I'm wearing it as a test run. Interesting case shape.

>>14148360
Watch repairer here, I'll try to answer all of these.
>trying to demagnetize your watch will fuck it up
Horseshit, I think it was TGV's fat fuck buddy who made this claim. Who is of course a completely unqualified fat fuck.
>never put a mechanical watch on the same table as a mobile phone - the vibrations from phone alerts will ruin your watch
Reminder that they fought the entire WW2 with watches mostly without shock protection. Including in piston-engine fighter planes. Also astronauts/cosmonauts exclusively wore mechanical watches for the first half of the history of space exploration. Including launch and reentry.
>even the toughest dive watch can't survive warm and/or soapy water
Soap and solvents will dissolve the silicone grease and degrade rubber gaskets. I don't think heat is healthy either. Opinions differ, but personally I wouldn't risk it, and recommend against it.
>all quartz watches are destined to fail because moisture from your skin will eventually get inside the case and mess up the circuitry
A lot of the very first quartz watches from nearly half a century ago are still working perfectly.
>the only difference between an authentic [insert high-end watch brand] and a knockoff or homage is the price
This is what poorfags and chink-enablers believe.
>opening up the case back on a dive watch means the water resistance is gone forever
Horseshit stemming from laymen owners misinterpreting the servicer's WR policy. It needs to be WR tested after opening and closing for the repairer to guarantee continued water resistance.

Let's take for example an old 100m WR watch. The gaskets have degraded years ago, not just the caseback gasket but the crown/buttons and the plastic crystal gasket as well. If I change a battery in it, don't test it, and it gets flooded the owner will blame me, because "it was fine for ten years before you touched it".