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Decided To Shower With It!!
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If you don't fiddle with the band while you're in the shower, you're right. But one might be tempted to loosen it slightly to clean under the band and watch (or even clean the inside of the band). In any case, I don't think that wearing the AW in the shower is worth trying, even if only to demonstrate its water resistance. If my watch gets wet inadvertently at some point, I'll find out then, I guess.
I actually worry more when I put my hand out the window while driving that something like a rock or something will hit the watch and hurt the SS... Sadly yeah I think about that lol
Not that I want to be a party pooper, but there is a reason that it's not recommend to shower even with a diving watch. When hot water rapidly heats the watch case, it can get deformed so that the back cover doesn't fit as it should anymore, and it can compromise the future water resistance
Over 100 showers, a 'ton' of sweat, over 90 trips to the gym, ½ a dozen runs in the rain, ½ a dozen extreme trail runs (mud), ½ dozen car washes and countless hand washings.
People and the press have this strange perversion of the term 'waterproof'. There is no waterproof device. A device is waterproof within it's rating. For some reason if a device has an ATM rating it is anointed as 'waterproof' even though an IPx7 device MUST be waterproof to the standard.
Apple was purposely conservative in giving an IPx7 rating and its is obvios by all tests, experiments and usage cases that it could have been ATM3 or even ATM5 rated.
People and the press have this strange perversion of the term 'waterproof'. There is no waterproof device. A device is waterproof within it's rating. For some reason if a device has an ATM rating it is anointed as 'waterproof' even though an IPx7 device MUST be waterproof to the standard.
Apple was purposely conservative in giving an IPx7 rating and its is obvios by all tests, experiments and usage cases that it could have been ATM3 or even ATM5 rated.
The problem with the AW is that it's glued together so the long-term durability is crap. We've already seen multiple people report the back of their watches failing off. So putting the AW through adverse conditions is definitely not recommended.
Adhesives (cyanoacrylates) are extremely resilient in chlorine and salt water environments. Cyanoacrylates are used extensively in marine applications and can be exposed to salt water 24/7 for years without any effects. In general cyanoacrylate will lose their bond as they crystallize. This usually takes about 10 years.
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Watches that came apart were manufacture deficits and NOT related to any cyanoacrylate adhesive water exposure.
I suspect some of the back that are separating from the watch body are due to a lack of adhesive, possible none at all. These adhesives have a great reputation so I suspect the problem was the human that applied (or not) the adhesive to the watch.
Talking about long term durability when it has only been out a few months? Talk to me an year if you want an intelligent discussion about long term durability and not just based a some people on a forum with a defective unit