![]() Perhaps it will make a comeback there as well, however – the charm of promised perfection may prove too great to ignore. The term still seems to resist being reborn in the domain of mechanical watches, however, and this despite the fact that water proofness, thanks to many decades of technical improvements, could be claimed now for a mechanical watch (especially a dive watch) more plausibly than ever before. A watch with 50 meters of water resistance can handle most common exposures to water, and watches with less resistance need constant attention to prevent them from getting wet. ![]() Casio’s G-shock label has cemented itself as a top name for durable and tough timepieces, and the brand’s Frogman Digital Men’s Watch is just that. Practically speaking, a watch with 100 or 200 meters of water resistance can withstand almost anything you can throw at it. Oddly enough, the term as applied to watches has seen something of a resurrection in the consumer electronics press – thanks in part to the development of smartwatches like the Apple Watch and fitness trackers, which bring the question of water resistance of a wristwatch to a whole generation of consumers who might never have thought to wonder about it before. Casio G-Shock Frogman Digital Men’s Watch. Absent any guidelines from the FTC, however, the term seems to be creeping back, at least in some quarters. Or will you? The FTC issued a decision in 1999, rescinding the watch guidelines as no longer relevant, citing the international standards and the widespread, indeed virtually universal, adherence to them. ![]() Now, if you begin to spend much time around watches and vintage watches, at some point, you are apt to notice that the word "waterproof" is present on some watches but not on others, and it may occur to you to wonder why it is that some watches boast of waterproofness, while others more circumspectly simply say "water resistant" – often with the latter qualified in terms of the meters or feet of immersion to which the watch can be expected to remain uninjured. The whole history of waterproof and water resistant watches, by the way, is a long and most interesting one, and it goes back quite a lot further than many of us might suspect – water having been regarded with enmity by watchmakers and watch owners for probably as long as there have been watches (and clocks many early verge clocks had iron movements, and the centuries have done their destructive work in quite a few cases there are several fascinating accounts online of the development of early waterproof watches, including this one). ![]()
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