What do bars mean on watches?
What do bars mean on watches?
This number is one of two terms: ATM: Stands for atmosphere. One atmosphere = 10 meters. Bar: An alternative term for atmosphere. A watch that’s “20 bar water resistant” is strong enough to withstand water pressures on a par with a depth of 200 meters.
Can I swim with 10 bar watch?
10 bar, 10 ATM, 100 Meter (100M) water resistant is suitable for swimming and water sports.
How many meters is 10 bars?
Bars to Metres of water
| 1 Bars = 10.1974 Metres of water | 10 Bars = 101.97 Metres of water | 2500 Bars = 25493.6 Metres of water |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Bars = 91.777 Metres of water | 1000 Bars = 10197.44 Metres of water | 1000000 Bars = 10197440 Metres of water |
What is water resistant 10 bar?
100 meters/ 328 feet/ 10 bar: are often called divers watches and can be used for snorkeling, swimming, and other water sports, but not high board diving or sub aqua diving. 200 meters/ 662 feet/ 20 bar: Suitable for high impact water sports and aqua diving not requiring helium.
How deep is 20atm?
Watches with 20 ATM (200 meters/660 feet) are perfect for any water sports activities, such as scuba or skin diving.
Can you swim with a water resistant watch?
If a watch has a water resistance rating of 30 meters, it can usually handle light water exposure, such as some rain or hand washing. An increased water resistance rating of 100 meters means your watch can safely go swimming, snorkeling, and other water sports—but not scuba diving.
How many feet deep is 10 bars?
328 feet
100 meters/ 328 feet/ 10 bar: are often called divers watches and can be used for snorkeling, swimming, and other water sports, but not high board diving or sub aqua diving.
What head is 1bar?
The answer is one Meter of Head is equal to 0.09804139432 Bars. Feel free to use our online unit conversion calculator to convert the unit from Meter of Head to Bar.
Which is better 5ATM vs IP68?
Clearly a water resistance of 5ATM is going to be better than IP68. Even though, in the case of IP68, you may not know how much further than a meter the watch is resistant, more than likely it won’t be too much. And it most probably won’t exceed 50 meters!
