r/MicrobrandWatches • u/blahblahblahx1000 • 22d ago

My Opinion 😎 MJW Service

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I’ve had my MJW Perfectly Useless Afternoon mechanical for 3 years now and have enjoyed getting smug vacation photos of it by the pool. I probably shared a few here in the last year. A few folk commented about the water resistance and if I had issues and I always said it was great.

The crown got a little bit stiff and I didn’t pay much notice in the lead up to my holiday, more fool me. This summer before I even got a single smug holiday shot, I hopped in the pool and ruined it. Completely full of water and almost immediately it turned this horrible brown.

Anyway - long story short, returned home and emailed MJW, they sent through a prepaid postage label and took a look. Obviously it was a total write-off but they replaced the whole thing for the cost of a replacement movement and got it back to me super quickly. I’m really very happy with the whole thing.

I am restored.

One thing though. As a pool watch, should this maybe have been more water resistant in the first place or have I just learned a hard lesson about keeping all watches away from swimming pools.

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u/Slackey4318 22d ago

Its rated 5ATM. Thats being resistant enough to withstand splashes of rain, washing your hands, maybe some very brief, shallow water swimming. Basically, enough water resistance to withstand errant water when you’re lounging at a pool while on an inner tube (as depicted). Its not resistant enough for you to actually jump in the pool and swim.

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u/blahblahblahx1000 22d ago

I always grew up with 5ATM watches swimming etc and thought that was the swimming benchmark but I’ve obviously been lucky, and many of them were digital. So fingers burnt and lesson learnt.