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Do you remove your rep/gen at airport security?
- Thread starter Got20Mate
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Nope. Never had an issue with TSA Pre. On some international flights, I have been required to remove all metal, including belts and watches…
why wouldn't you? Even with Global Entry/TSA Precheck (here in the US)- you cannot have any metal on you when you go through the detector. Unless it is a Moonswatch or a Casio G Shock- you would have to take it off...
I think I've always been curious with possible damage that could be caused to the watch in question but maybe I'm just being paranoid. Recent flight to Frankfurt, I didn't have to take my watch off but my belt I did - Was wearing my gen Seamaster blue.
interesting they did not make you remove your watch! You must be some double platinum elite flyer with a high government security clearance!
I usually put my watch in a pocket in my carry-on when going through security.
Maybe it's US and Europe this? Trust me, I'm no platinum member of anything!! haha
You definitely do NOT have to take off a watch going through US (or other) security. I've worn my gen Datejust through security for the past 30 years. It hasn't come off once. Metal detector or scanner. Same in Europe and Canada.
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Interesting. They never make me take mine off, and I fly a handful of times every month. I guess because I always go through the body scanner. I am also not pre TSA pre-screened.
I don't want to take mine off through fear of something happening with the x-ray
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No. I also have Global Entry and all that bullshit since I travel very frequently. Not sure if I would have to otherwise.
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I find it funny how the rules vary internationally. A couple years ago, I flew from Las Vegas to Detroit, then from Detroit to Toronto, then Toronto to Heathrow, then Heathrow to India....had to damn near strip down every time, while they scrutinized every piece of photography gear, every phone charger, my watch, my phone, and my Garmin accessories (heart rate monitor, shoe pod, little odds and ends).
Then I flew from India to Nepal. Almost no security at all, and they gave us metal silverware during the flight, which is more or less the same implements that terrorists pulled off 9/11 with.
Security at the airport was no joke, however. Uniformed soldiers with tripod mounted machine guns placed strategically throughout the concourse.
Then I flew from India to Nepal. Almost no security at all, and they gave us metal silverware during the flight, which is more or less the same implements that terrorists pulled off 9/11 with.
Security at the airport was no joke, however. Uniformed soldiers with tripod mounted machine guns placed strategically throughout the concourse.
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