I have had 100's of watches over my lifetime.. and I never felt the need to go have a watch tested for waterproofness. I had always assumed a watch is water resistant if it was stated so from the MFG. I just go through regular life and not worry about it. I wash the watches with soap and water when its dirty, I wear it in the shower, bath, jacuzzi, shallow pools, rain, shallow beach, dish washing, car washing etc... just regular life stuff. No diving or actual swimming.
So how did that work out for me over the years?
I currently have about 36 watches.
In Reps I have a submariner, a SM300, a mark 18, a flat cartier drive, master ultra thin, explorer 1
In Gens I have a handful of G shocks, couple of fossils, several other casios, invicta big date, a small flat tissot, a pulsar chrono, a datejust, a SM120, a date, a hamilton, a tag heuer, some timex, some seiko, some citizen... and some Aliexpress low dollar watches I picked up just to keep the mailman busy.
In Homages I have a GMT, a deepsea, a royal oak, a daytona, a nautilus, a no date sub, a gold day date, a datejust, a Portuguese power reserve, a panerai, a longines...
Out of all those watches, I currently have one that leaks: a low dollar holuns chrono style and it leaks like the titanic. It fogged up inside after a shower so I opened it up and hair-dryer dried it, and I dont go near water with that anymore. Historically I had other leaks, but those ones were always some low quality garbage watch that was a free giveaway or something.
So with this XF V3 we are talking about, I felt no reason to go have it tested for waterproofness. It is just something I am not usually concerned about. I wasn't even thinking about it... but I will, because:
thank you
legend .