Snowed the first day of 2022…

An idea was had and since I didn't have any thing else to do, why not take
advantage of the situation? I've always liked to put my watches to the test
anyways!

Too bad it didn't snow even more! But it was cold and wet so I guess that
counts for something. 18.5F = -7.5C

The watches were chillin' outside for about 5-6 hours - they were frozen stuck
to the deck and I had to pull a little to remove them ha. My Ingenieur lost
about 4 seconds while the Citizen didn't lose/gain any time (but under normal
conditions it runs fast).

Wonder what I'll do next...?

Cheers!

Opportunity presented itself to play in the snow again

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@Mr. Francis K has written:

Opportunity presented itself to play in the snow
again

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Great photos Francis! I think that if you edit a photo before posting, that
keeps it from being rotated. That has worked for me.

Very nice Francis!

I took my my Pilot Chronograph snow shoeing last week

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Wow really cool! I remember experimenting with putting a quartz watch in the
freezer at minus 25 deg C. It started behaving very strange! The date wouldn't
stop at 31 but could be advanced upto 75 or so. When the watch was back at
room temperature and reset by removing the battery, it would work perfectly
normal again. I'm not sure if I want to do these experiments with my IWC's but
a bit of snow and ice shouldn't be to bad.

Kind regards,

Clemens

That's a really interesting experiment Clemens!

Mechanical movements do have clear advantages in this case as the date wheel
is limited to 31 and even big dates using to number disks just could show 39
as a maximum (and faulty) date :-)

Maybee I have a glass of wine and think of similar experiments...

Yeah Clemens, very interesting that the quartz would advance (way) past any
possible day of the month it's programmed for.

My thoughts exactly, a little snow and ice wouldn't affect or cause any sort
of damage to the watch. I'm guessing the the only negative affect from letting
the watch's temperature drop to that low is the gaskets could harden and
become brittle sooner rather than later (which of course could lead to more
serious issues).

But like my wife said (when I showed her that I put the watch in the snow
again), maybe I just won't be happy until I destroy the watch. While I think
that's true to a certain extent,

• I don't really want to cause damage to my watch (and pay a hefty price for it) because I love this watch
• I wouldn't intentionally do any thing that I think would actually damage/harm the watch (like drop the watch from the top of a building or introduce tremendous shock to it (which I've done before to another watch unintentionally and which caused the movement to fail)

I guess you could just compare it to me trying to re-create the temperature
tests IWC subjects the watches through (in this case the 2005 catalogue
which has pictures of this Ingenieur as examples), and most importantly it's
all done for fun and to satisfy my curiosity ha.

I had the bright idea to put the bracelet in the snow as an afterthought. It's
really neat how clean the lines in the snow are marking where the bracelet
fell through.

Then, shortly after I dropped the bracelet in the snow, my father-in-law
decided to shovel the snow in the front of the house. Where I set the bracelet
down was close to where he started, putting it at the very bottom of a mound
of snow. The mountain of snow was even higher once the snow was all shoveled.
I found it to be pretty funny and laughed at the situation.

6 days later, the snow finally (almost) melted and I was able to pick up the
bracelet.

Pretty cool to see parts of the bracelet "covered" in mud.

As expected, the titanium bracelet weathered the 6 days of low temperatures,
snow, and ice like a champ and came out like nothing happened. But then again,
I guess that's not too surprising for some solid pieces of titanium.

I washed the bracelet, reattached it to the case, and have been wearing it
since. Watch and bracelet are both ok!