Aquanaut 5167a Water Resistance?

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Originally Posted by cascavel

And this will affect the sales of their sport watches how? They don't have to compete with Rolex, in fact Patek doesn't have to compete at all. Patek has been working for years to rid themselves of the low priced stainless time only sport watch crowd. 30 Meters, love it or leave us.

Yup, the downgrade may well have been motivated by having the sports watches lose one obvious advantage compared to Patek's higher priced products. In essence, leveling the playing field on that front no matter if the sports watches are in reality more water resistant than the dress watches or not.