What watch is on your wrist / What timepiece do you use?

[Teej84]

Hey guys and girls,

Its been a while because my whole life has been turned topsy turvy! I have closed down my business as a photographer and taken up a job as an outdoor activity centre instructor in Shropshire! Hell why not give up the day job and pursue your hobbies!

Its awesome here and I get to be outdoors for all of my working day come rain or shine teaching, among other things, climbing, rifles, archery, abseiling, obstacle courses, high ropes courses, canoeing, raft building, initiative exercises, biking, walking, orienteering and best of all basic survival skills. Life is GOOD!

Anyway enough about the new job - back to the thread!

With the new job comes a need to be on time for things, a great hardship for me and so I need a watch.

It has to be wearable for all the activities above and due to a HUGE reduction in my salary as I am living on site here now it needs to be on the cheaper side of expensive! Also because of if I do break it!

Suggestions would be gratefully received and also out of interest I would like to know what you all use to tell the time anyway!

Teej

 

[buckley]

G-shocks are a good choice you can get them for next to nothing off ebay.

Miltary watches, e.g kronos, CWC etc are good and cheap.

 

[SOAR]

I use a military watch G10 MMC they are good watches ans swiss movement so good time keeping, I had a link somewhere I will try and find it.

Simon.

 

[SOAR]

http://www.discount-chronographs.co.uk/g10.htm

No link to seller in any way.

 

[Miggers]

Despite a few gadgety jobs, the one I come back to is my Seiko Submariner Divers 200m automatic. It has been bomb proof since I bought it back in 1999/2000.

Pete

 

[shep]

I'm a chrono fan and I need an alarm but find those inset digital faces uggly.
So I have one of these:

But with a leather strap I made myself.

 

[maddave]

I have an Aqualung Pro Helium 1000M

Really tough watch and a good price

See here

http://www.simplyscuba.com/ProductDetails.aspx?StockID=5631

 

[Matt Weir]

Military CWC G10 for me (I've been told that CWC were the original and best manufacturers of the G10 as opposed to the newer MWC G10's )

 

[w00dsmoke]

I did have a casio G shock divers watch but it only lasted 1 year at work...it still works but it's in bits.

I now wear a Tag F1 when not at work and a cheaper watch at work. I quite fancy getting
a luminox as I like the night time radability of those nuclear vials!

 

[lou1661]

Hi guys,
I wear a Marathon navigator (the sterile version without date) and i have to say that the night time readability (is that a real word) is fantastic! I got mine fron a US seller off ebay.
http://www.countycomm.com/NAVNODATELARGE.jpg

Cheers
Lou

 

[Too Much Kit To Carry]

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23186&highlight=NITE+WATCH

Great bit of kit. 10 yr battery, keeps perfect time, takes a knock and really easy to read in the dark with GTLS.

Cheers,

Phil.

 

[EdS]

1970's Russian military "Komandirskie" (Vostak i think).

Proper wind up watch cost less than £10

 

[slamdunk]

As you ask, one of these:

Contemplating flogging it though as I'm hankering after a new canoe! Excellent watch though, seems bombproof. Otherwise I'd also say a GShock - fantastic value for money in my opinion.

(If it looks familiar, it is 'as worn by on TV', although I put a waterproof leather strap on it)

 

[Dr Onion]

I don't tend to wear a watch to be honest - I won't be no slave to Old Father Time!!

I do have a couple of watches kicking about somewhere - mostly bought for me by my dear lady who keeps trying to get me to places on time!

Dr O

 

[Arth]

I don't wear a watch I use my mobile phone to tell the time. If I need to go some were I just set the alarm clock so I'm not clock watching.

 

[andy_e]

I don't tend to wear one day to day, but when I'm out I wear one of these ...

http://www.h3watchshop.co.uk/p/15/Traser-H3-P6500-Watch-Series/Traser-H3-Watch-|-Traser-H3-P6500-Navigator-Type-6-Watch.htm

... it's basic, very light-weight yet solid and best of all the tritium lights mean you can read it in the pitch black without having to switch on your torch to illuminate or charge the glow-in-the-dark materials.

 

[beach bum]

My fetish for watches is only exceeded by my fetish for knives ATM I'm wearing an Ollech & Wijs military style automatic, I usually revert to a CWC G10 on a NATO strap for forays outdoors but I have several other robust divers type watches to choose from.

There are many choices, most quartz movements as accurate and reliable as you will ever need and as cheap as you want them to be. The joy of a cheap watch being that it is nearly "disposeable", and yet still servicable.



regards


beach bum

 

[DoctorSpoon]

I'm reminded of my son a few years back asking me, "what's the time for?" ... and having difficulty answering it! We too live in the uncertain world of the self employed where we're often not sure what day of the week it is let alone the time

 

[Island Forager]

I tend to vary mine according to fancy.
Day to day wear I have a Rolex Sea Dweller.
I also use a G-Shock Gulfman (it has tide timers and other useful bits on it).
I also have a Citizen Aqualand, which is really nice.
I have to say though, I find that my Sea Dweller gets the most wrist time as it takes everything I throw at it (shooting, sailing, diving, offroad driving, home mechanics etc and more!!!).
G-shocks are excellent value for money are really are good. Been diving with mine and beaten it up!! Really tough watches and can be picked up for less than £50. They are a bit chunky though, but so is my Aqualand.
Military ones such as the G10 etc are probably going to be the best option as they are tough and reliable. From memory, Anchor Supplies do them delivered to your door, refurbished for about £45. Cant go wrong with that.
I really should think about changing watches for activities a bit more. My mates think I'm mad for digging around under LR bonnets and puddles of mud in a £3k watch, but I just cant seem to take it off.

Good luck in your decision and your choice. I dont think you can go wrong with any of the things mentioned here so far. For wearing day to day and beating up a bit, I would say go with the military option and maybe buy another NATO strap for decent wear. There are companies on the web that do them with all sorts of patterns and regimental colours on. I bought a Bond NATO for my Sea Dweller and it is great. They are really really comfy, but only if you get a genuine one.

 

[spamel]

Another Vostok wearer. They are cheap and robust, mine is an automaytic so no worries about forgetting to wind it up and it keeps good time.