Understand the meaning of ATM.
30m (98.4ft) = 3 ATM = Splash resistant. Ok for rain, hand washing splashes, other occasional contact with water, but not intensively and not for long periods. 50m (164ft) = 5 ATM = Suitable for swimming, fishing, other outdoor activities. 100m (328ft) = 10 ATM = Fit for snorkeling and other prolonged contact with water, but not for scuba.
All Pionier watches are 3 ATM.
Please make sure that your watch complies to the appropriate level of water resistance.
We do recommend that if the watch is not kept in normal room temperatures or if it's kept for a prolonged period of time in very humid conditions to have the Pionier official service centre in Germany have a check of all it's part in case of any rust.
Want to take it a step further to protect your watch? Make sure at all times that the crown is always pushed back against the case (1st position), especially after setting the time or adjusting its functions.
If water accidentally enters inside the case or if you notice any trace of moisture let it dry, wipe it down using a cloth, and contact us in order to send the watch to our service centre in Germany.
Avoid contact with sea water. Avoid contact with any chemicals. Avoid contact with soaps. Avoid taking a shower with your gentleman watch. We highly suggest that you read the User Guide.
Our priority is to serve the customer with the latest technology, but like everything else, even watches do require maintenance. Pionier watches are beautiful timepieces equipped with extraordinary design and rigorousness. Maintenance does not only prolong their longevity; but assures the condition of the watch itself.
Therefore, in order to provide you and your watch with the care you deserve, our Pionier service centre offers you as an owner the service facility to undergo any checks, inspections or services you need for the movement.
We advise you to carry out a full servicing at our official Pionier Service Center:
We advise you to read the User Guide, which will provide you with all the information you require to make the best use of your watch.
]]>Mechanical watches work on power reserve, which means that energy is saved in the barrel spring and continuously is distributed into the gears of the mechanism to establish a smooth operation of the watch.
The average mechanical watch lasts for about 38 hours, although all watchmakers do recommend to wind your watch approximately at around same time every day in order to give it the energy required for the watch to maintain highest functionalism during the 24 hours.
If the watch is not worn daily; but you want to avoid setting it up daily, we advise to keep winding it before the power reserve is consumed, which is on average 38 hours.
If a mechanical watch requires manual winding different is the story for an automatic watch. The wrist movement will produce the energy that is slowly distributed to the barrel spring through the oscillating mass to ensure a smooth operation. Thanks to this process you do not need to manually wind an automatic watch.
To keep the watch in constant operation our advice is to wear the watch everyday or get yourself a watch winding case. This will help avoiding having to adjust time each wear.
What to do if your watch stops? The finest way to bring it back as evenly it's by turning the winding crown around 30 times.
]]>All Pionier leather bands are genuine cow leather styled to the finest standard.
From TimeZone
"A shower presents additional difficulties - soap lowers surface tension, and warm water has lower surface tension as well. Add to the fact that a shower can sometimes have powerful jets."
"Here's why you shouldn't wear any watch in the shower. Inside a water resistant watch is air. Air contains water vapor. If you sit in a hot tub, or sauna, or take a long hot shower you heat up the air inside the watch. Like that shiny sapphire crystal on your watch? Sapphire is a fine conductor of temperature. Ever leave a movie theater on a muggy August day, you walk outside and your glasses fog up? Same thing can happen to your watch when you exit the shower/sauna/hot tub and go into a cold room. I get clients saying 'water got in my watch from the shower when in reality it's condensation on the underside of the crystal."
From watchbuys.net
Our recommendation to this question is no. There are a few things to keep in mind:
1. Mechanical watches are water resistant, and not water proof. This means that they have been tested to their rated depth using water testing machines, but they are not guaranteed to never leak.
2. Showering presents challenges to mechanical watches other than just water. These include the effects of soap, shampoo or other cleaning agents which may over time weaken the effect of the seals.
3. The strap may be damaged by exposure to water.
4. The spray from a shower head if aimed in certain directions on a mechanical watch can simulate water depths beyond the rating of the watch.
A lower-end movement from before 1970 would typically use 5 or 7 jewels; this end of the market has pretty much been taken over by quartz. Nowadays, most manual wind watches will have a standard complement of 17 jewels, which are:
1: Impulse jewel (the part of the balance wheel assembly which receives a kick from the escape lever)
2-5: Balance staff pivot bearings (two pairs - in combinations of one pivot jewel (i.e. jewel with a hole to receive the axle (pivot) of the wheel) and one cap jewel (i.e. jewel without a hole outboard of the pivot jewel, to prevent excessive movement of the balance staff), usually shock protected)
6-7: Escape lever pallets (one pair)
8-9: Escape lever pivot bearings (one pair) 10-11: Escape wheel pivot bearings (one pair) 12-13: Fourth wheel pivot bearings (one pair) 14-15: Third wheel pivot bearings (one pair) 16-17: Center wheel pivot bearings (one pair)
Courtesy of watchbuys.net
Our job at Pionier is not only to come up with striking modern-looking watches, with the ability to stand out.
When we look at design, we go straight to the eyes of our clients, and we ask ourselves one important question.
What do they see?
A watch is not meant only to impress, among other things it is made to remind you daily of that precious thing called time.
Our embodiment of time is present in every design that we make.
It's especially visible in our skeleton watches, where you see the full depth of the watch mechanism working in the background just for you.
It's a striking concept, which tickles an unidentifiable emotion within our brain.
An emotion which gives us both pleasure, and makes us appreciate time even more!