Do you shower/bathe with your watch on?

[dks]

Do you shower/bathe with your watch on?

Personally, irrespective of the watch, I would only have a shower with it when coming out of the sea, mainly to remove the salt from me and the watch. The watch may also get another proper wash later.

2 votes per person!

[firiki]

Voted

I used to shower with my watch on when I was younger -and less foolish than I am now. 

I stopped doing that when I realised it causes condensation inside the case that silently kills the poor things.

Nowadays I don't wear a watch in the sea anymore and I prefer to give it a good cleaning of its own every now and then.

[PTRSAK]

Depends which watch and what it and I am coated with...

[Don Pablo]

Based so far on the poll results... We are very "dirty" people. 

[Mechanickal]

Even when my watch is waterproof, I don't wear it in the shower.

Won't risk breaking it by a flaw that could've been avoided by keeping it dry.

My watches get a seperate wash under the tap with some handsoap from time to time.
Way less risk of water getting in (lower waterpressure and less long time submerged)

And a service once every 2 years, since it does have to be waterproof whenever the need arises.

[Kev D]

I've been wearing my g-shock all the time since I got it, including when I shower. I take it off afterwards to give the nato strap a good dry, and to swap between straps when I want to wash the one I'm currently using,  but other than that I wear it all the time.

[Corwyn]

I usually take my G-Shock off.

I know it can handle the moisture but I don;t want to clean soap and gunk from the bezel edges and the strap... I occasionally keep it in the swimming pool though.

[Sea Monster]

At home - No.
I don't lose much time taking it off (so to speak...), and I didn't pay for a perfectly good side table to not put things on it.

In public ( ) - Yes, it's less f-ing around, and less likely to be "accidentally" picked up by someone.

[LoopCutter]

Off for the shower and also to sleep.

I do wear on vacation in the sea and/or pool.  Clean well at end of day. 


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[Smashie]

Never, cleaning soap residue from a watch is horrible

[Grant Lamontagne]

Nope, I don't wear a watch in the shower, just a pair of cutoff jean shorts.... 

Def

[PTRSAK]

[Grant Lamontagne]

Def

[16VGTIDave]

All my watches are water resistant, most to 200m. So as long as the band isn't leather I always have one on. Shower, bath, swimming, sleeping, always. I'll use a small nail brush to clean the watch and band if I've been getting messy in the workshop, yard, etc. I haven't had a watch fail me in decades. And if it is going to fail, I'd prefer it did so when I was close to my other watches.

I guess, if I wore delicate (jewelry) watches, I might not be so demanding of them. But, after having many lesser watches fail when growing up, I refuse to buy or wear them. I don't care what it's market value may be, if a watch requires me to consider its durability before doing something, it has no value to me. Maybe that is why I now only wear robust watches, like the Titanium Eco-Drive on my wrist right now, that can handle the abuses of life without concern.

[Padre]

My every watch can take the shower but I dont need to tell the time while in the shower. I have swimmed and been in sauna with watch quite regularly just because I had been afraid of possible thieves.

[Vinjints]

It is none of your business what I am wearing, or not wearing, while I shower.

[Aloha]

I only buy watches that can go for a swim without issues.  I will wear a watch when in the ocean then rinse the salt water off me with it on.  I dont bathe with one on however. 

[AimlessWanderer]

I always take my watch off

[Fortytwo]

All my watches are water resistant, most to 200m. So as long as the band isn't leather I always have one on. Shower, bath, swimming, sleeping, always. I'll use a small nail brush to clean the watch and band if I've been getting messy in the workshop, yard, etc. I haven't had a watch fail me in decades. And if it is going to fail, I'd prefer it did so when I was close to my other watches.

I guess, if I wore delicate (jewelry) watches, I might not be so demanding of them. But, after having many lesser watches fail when growing up, I refuse to buy or wear them. I don't care what it's market value may be, if a watch requires me to consider its durability before doing something, it has no value to me. Maybe that is why I now only wear robust watches, like the Titanium Eco-Drive on my wrist right now, that can handle the abuses of life without concern.

I agree, I was very close to getting a new watch recently but the lack of sapphire glass stopped me. I had one without it while growing up and although I wasn't a very adventurous child I still scratched it badly. Same principle with water resistance really, if I would have to be careful with a watch I'm not really interested (especially since I have a watch that can and has taken a lot of abuse).

I do not however sleep with it on.