diff --git a/pkg/cache/cluster.go b/pkg/cache/cluster.go
index 124ebd159..bf17d0aa5 100644
--- a/pkg/cache/cluster.go
+++ b/pkg/cache/cluster.go
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ type clusterCache struct {
 	// namespacedResources is a simple map which indicates a groupKind is namespaced
 	namespacedResources map[schema.GroupKind]bool
 
-	// maximum time we allow watches to run before relisting the group/kind and restarting the watch
+	// maximum time we allow watches to run before restarting them
 	watchResyncTimeout time.Duration
 	// sync retry timeout for cluster when sync error happens
 	clusterSyncRetryTimeout time.Duration
@@ -601,6 +601,10 @@ func (c *clusterCache) listResources(ctx context.Context, resClient dynamic.Reso
 		}
 
 		listRetry.Steps = int(c.listRetryLimit)
+		// We set the resource version to 0 below to proactively prevent the
+		// list API call from reaching etcd and make the server fetch the data
+		// from the watch cache instead.
+		opts.ResourceVersion = "0"
 		err := retry.OnError(listRetry, c.listRetryFunc, func() error {
 			var ierr error
 			res, ierr = resClient.List(ctx, opts)
@@ -651,6 +655,7 @@ func (c *clusterCache) loadInitialState(ctx context.Context, api kube.APIResourc
 }
 
 func (c *clusterCache) watchEvents(ctx context.Context, api kube.APIResourceInfo, resClient dynamic.ResourceInterface, ns string, resourceVersion string) {
+	timeoutSeconds := int64(c.watchResyncTimeout.Seconds())
 	kube.RetryUntilSucceed(ctx, watchResourcesRetryTimeout, fmt.Sprintf("watch %s on %s", api.GroupKind, c.config.Host), c.log, func() (err error) {
 		defer func() {
 			if r := recover(); r != nil {
@@ -668,6 +673,7 @@ func (c *clusterCache) watchEvents(ctx context.Context, api kube.APIResourceInfo
 
 		w, err := watchutil.NewRetryWatcher(resourceVersion, &cache.ListWatch{
 			WatchFunc: func(options metav1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
+				options.TimeoutSeconds = &timeoutSeconds
 				res, err := resClient.Watch(ctx, options)
 				if apierrors.IsNotFound(err) {
 					c.stopWatching(api.GroupKind, ns)
@@ -679,17 +685,7 @@ func (c *clusterCache) watchEvents(ctx context.Context, api kube.APIResourceInfo
 			return err
 		}
 
-		defer func() {
-			w.Stop()
-			resourceVersion = ""
-		}()
-
-		var watchResyncTimeoutCh <-chan time.Time
-		if c.watchResyncTimeout > 0 {
-			shouldResync := time.NewTimer(c.watchResyncTimeout)
-			defer shouldResync.Stop()
-			watchResyncTimeoutCh = shouldResync.C
-		}
+		defer w.Stop()
 
 		for {
 			select {
@@ -697,12 +693,13 @@ func (c *clusterCache) watchEvents(ctx context.Context, api kube.APIResourceInfo
 			case <-ctx.Done():
 				return nil
 
-			// re-synchronize API state and restart watch periodically
-			case <-watchResyncTimeoutCh:
-				return fmt.Errorf("resyncing %s on %s due to timeout", api.GroupKind, c.config.Host)
-
 			// re-synchronize API state and restart watch if retry watcher failed to continue watching using provided resource version
 			case <-w.Done():
+				// The underlying retry watcher has stopped, possibly due to specifying an RV in
+				// the watch request that is stale (error code 410). This forces us to relist
+				// objects from the kube-apiserver to get a fresher RV and we invoke that relist
+				// by resetting the locally stored RV.
+				resourceVersion = ""
 				return fmt.Errorf("watch %s on %s has closed", api.GroupKind, c.config.Host)
 
 			case event, ok := <-w.ResultChan():
@@ -712,8 +709,16 @@ func (c *clusterCache) watchEvents(ctx context.Context, api kube.APIResourceInfo
 
 				obj, ok := event.Object.(*unstructured.Unstructured)
 				if !ok {
+					// We failed to cast the object received in the watch event to something
+					// that contains a resource version field. Because of that, we don't know
+					// from what RV we should reinitialize the watch connection, so in order to
+					// avoid any inconsistencies due to accidental skipping of a potential RV,
+					// we reset the locally stored RV to forcefully invoke the list API call to
+					// get it from the kube-apiserver.
+					resourceVersion = ""
 					return fmt.Errorf("failed to convert to *unstructured.Unstructured: %v", event.Object)
 				}
+				resourceVersion = obj.GetResourceVersion()
 
 				c.recordEvent(event.Type, obj)
 				if kube.IsCRD(obj) {