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it would seem that the screw down crown and water resistancy in meters that are unreachable by human life have become crutch of many WIS believing that without the 2 a watch could not survive getting wet.
....unfortunately that leaves out a large segment of this hobby that do not have either and would most likely out perform many of the watches made by companies that claim the above whose QC is non existent because in most cases and I do mean cases it is only the watch case that is tested and not the final product and the company owner or rep is no wear near the manufacturing facility to oversee QC.
...water resistancy is not guaranteed to last any amount of time and can be altered in daily use by bumping or dropping your watch.I have a expensive watch in service right now because the crown tube came loose...this happened from just unscrewing the crown everytime I went to wear it and needed to set the time and date...as a WIS many of us have more than 1 watch and something as simple as extensive use of a screw down crown can cause problems....jmho
That's so true, caution with crown that has a strong spring, it puts a lot of pressure on the threads, every time you unscrew, and screw the crown it grind the threads down leading to crown and tube failure. That happen to me once it was repair under warranty. I did notice on the new crown less tension.