Hi everyone, I also posted this on the dive watch forum. My question is this:
1) What, in practical terms, does having the U-1 be in accordance with DIN 8308 mean in reference to shock resistance? Sports, physical activities, dropping the watch off a tall building? ;-)
2) Is the U-1 "more" shock resistant than other diver watches with an incabloc shock system?
I have done it all, except the tall building part. If I may suggest, just before you land, make sure your body hits first.
I do not think the ETA movement in a Sinn is much different from the other ETA :s, of the same Grade.
Well... I went mountainbiking with my TAG Heuer Super Professional and since then it is broken. Broken as in the automatic winding feature no longer winds as i have to manually wind the watch every morning. Something is loose inside the watch and i believe that it is the "anchor" that somehow has broken off.
So would i go riding my rigid singlespeed mountainbike with my new Sinn? I would think long and hard about it... and then wear a G-Shock.
I can't compare with other dive watches, but this June I dropped my U1 (from about waist height - slipped out of my hands as I was taking it off .... silly accident) onto a hard tiled floor, and completely bricked it - no movement, wouldn't wind, wouldn't operate. There was (and still is) a noticeable dent on the case where it hit the ground, and I had to send it into the shop where it spent a few weeks in repair.
Hi,
I looked up the DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) 8308 for shock once.
Don't have the exact wording but it was that an impact equivalent to a hammer moving at 4.4 meters per second will not alter the time of the watch by more that +-60 seconds per day.
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