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Hello to everyone and espically all the new members...I've come out of lurking mode to present my version of an extreme torture test on the 6309-7049 150mm diver...sorry to you that have read my seperate posts on this watch....but for all new members I decided to rewrite about Seiko 6309 #732677 to have them in one place... this watch spent over 1100 hours underwater...I was a contract diver who worn the Sekio as a good luck piece....not a part of my working system....I had made a 4" rubber band cover out of a leg tourniquet to fit over the watch...pipelay barge or dredge or jet barge divers and Non Destructive Testng divers don't wear watches....strange?...Not really..the limited visiablity conditions where my type of diving takes place were river bottoms and mid harbors(the sekio was there)in 76 Boston Harbor USA had 12' of overburden above harbor floor(the 6309 was there)...biopsy (coreing sampling) a bridge spanning the Mississippi.. easy current.. no visibility (the sekio was there)torque valve on the hydraulic machine slammed my wrist into a piling...(the seiko was there)I add that I did wear a 50cm depth gauge at all times..the incident broke a bone in my wrist it moved the bezel to one side..new bezel and crystal... the watch was find... destroyed my GG..the Seiko had 5 years of this real time torture test... I also played in my Sekio..this was a 24hr watch...the watch has been restored now by IWW... Jack related not a spect of rust on the movement... it is still my everyday watch though its diving days are over...so when a watch is nominated as one of the most robust and enduring divers... with a strong record to prove by...I believe my unintentional real life torture test on my 6309 speaks well of the watch.

the test just took a little longer then tossing it into a pot of boiling water.