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I never understood why the Navi isn't designed to handle more pressure. Aren't these supposed to be used by pilots? What if a pilot had to eject or crash land into open water? Maybe telling time isn't so important at that point but still. Just a stupid thought of mine. Still love my Navi though.

The main "weakness" in terms of water resistance for the Navi is the bezel, which is pressure fitted.

The watch isn't designed or meant to be in the water anyway (there's no water in the cockpit)

If a pilot needs to eject the cabin he has bigger fish to fry that worrying about a watch. It's like saying, why not making planes float like boats because they could fall on the water. Planes aren't design to be in the water and the same applies to the Navi.

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Yeah that. I'm picturing a pilot ejecting at 300mph, surviving and then bitching that the water got his Navi. Pretty sure he would get a few bitch slaps.


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...unless it was one of the 18k versions on bracelet. I would be good with a little bitching about that.

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....mayday, mayday, my watch Navi is flooded ! Can someone contact Breitling, this is an emergency.....

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"It is just a matter of time!"

hahaha, nevermind the 350 passengers drowning or freezing to death in the ocean, as long as the Navi is safe!

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GMTIIc
Daytona
Nautilus 5711
Deep Sea D-Blue
Submariner Hulk
Tudor BB - FOR SALE
SOLD
Aerospace
Navitimer World
Bentley GT Racing
Cockpit
Navitimer 01 LE 788/2000

Where's dhalem when you need him.

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End of Discussion.

I thought the same thing, however nothing is for sure except death & taxes. My Airwolf died due to a leak with the gaskets etc. Just because the watch is water resistant doesn't mean it will always be fine.
Having the watch in warm water, sauna etc will make the resistance drop, & damage the sealing.
By the way, when the watch goes in for servicing it is covered for 12mths by warrantee despite the age of the piece. I get the seals checked every time. If water gets in the watch & its found to have a faulty seal, they will fix it, like what happened to mine. As long as the pressure wasn't exceeded.

Same for all lings I assume.

cheers

How old was the watch davo? Was it due a service anyway or was it relatively new? Could you have inadvertently operated one of the push buttons? I would be interested to know what happened with your Airwolf.

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Breitling Airwolf (Black Sunburst) 2008 - Date.

No, I'm very aware of lings, & watch care & water resistant. Only the seawolf with mag pushers are resistant to water while using their functions. Most manufacturers inc Breitling recommend yearly water pressure testing & gasket/seal replacements if wearing the watch while in contact with water for their certified limits. ie. 50m is usually for light surface water contact at best. ie submersion with low force to minimise the pressure. In other words just dipping into water at best. I was in the tropics when it occurred as I travel a lot. The change from cold water to warm humid sunny conditions could have contributed to the seal problem. The buttons could not have accidentally pushed as the buttons require a generous force, & I only use them at work. The service centre did say that a seal had failed. Could have been an installation problem, seal fault, or bad luck. My watch gets checked & seals replaced annually- 18mths. The watch use to get only occasionally wet keeping contact below what the static pressure limit would be. I did originally think that prestige brands would over-engineer their watches & pull back their resistance claims. I never tested the limits, nor even close(pressure not depth for newbies). Now, my belief is that nothing in life is guaranteed. I was lucky the issued occurred whilst under warrantee. Now the watch never gets close to water.

As I've posted before, it was painful to watch & listen to the watch slowly die, as parts grinded away until the sound & movement stopped. The watch fogged after 30 mins from being wet, sitting in a pool for a couple of minutes. The lcds failed next then the movement started to become noisy for approx 24hrs before death. I would only wear a cheap watch in the water now which is my suunto--great watch!
Be very mindful around water.

cheers

Thanks davo, appreciated. That was an interesting read. I'm sure that I will continue to wear my watch as per my previous post in this thread but I will confess that I am always VERY careful not to operate the buttons etc when in water/humidity. You were extremely unlucky and I can only guess at what it must have felt like - to watch your beautiful timepiece slowly grind it's way to certain death .

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TAG Professional (Silver/Gold) 2000 - still going strong and kept as spare when Wolf is away.
Breitling B1 (Blue) 2003 - 2008.
Breitling Airwolf (Black Sunburst) 2008 - Date.