Obligatory Wristwatch Thread

[Crusader]

I don’t think many people take a watches advertised rating all that seriously, of course those that dive professionally and for a hobby buy dive watches that they trust are mostly accurate. But most of us just want a watch that we don’t have to worry about getting wet, or submerged in water. I never have and never will take a watch any deeper then 10-12 feet, I’ve always keyed on the words water resistant. That is very different then water proof, also if it’s a quartz once the original battery is changed your water resistance probably isn’t nowhere new as good as new. Even if serviced by a place that says they pressure test it, once that original seal is cracked you just don’t really know.

[PNWTO]

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Here is some TOTS inspired Marathon porn: [
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Very nice and Tots approves!!

I love my “basic” Navigator as well.

The Long Island collab Navigator, white dial with blue tritium, has been in and out of my cart a lot lately. The white dial just makes legibility so much better, at least to me.

https://longislandwatch.com/marathon...194013bk-9901/

[vcdgrips]

As an admitted watch geek since I started working at Macys in High School in the early 80s, I believe the following to be true:

Ramble follows Ymmv

1. Water resistant numbers are a crap shoot

2. If it does not have a screw down crown, it is just a matter of time before water gets into the watch, could be days, could be years if it has been exposed to anything more than handwashing

3. Strongly concur that once you crack the back to change a battery and/or for a clean/lube/adjust service etc, absent somebody who really knows what they are doing, with access to OEM and/or OEM equivalent gaskets/seals, the chances of a watch taking on water goes up significantly

4. I own multiple 100m plus screw down crown watches to include omega, tag, seiko and Unimatic. While all of them have been to the pool or ocean, I no longer do that as the need for a timepiece in those settings for me does not justify risking anything more than a Casio to water damage.

I get there are folks that have dive/dressier watches that have screw down crowns ie Rolex OP and Subs who worked hard for the money, bought them, set them and never take the watch off. Hand washing, showers, hot tubs, pools, ocean and lake swimming and diving with no issues, shooting, all manner of other kinetic/athletic activities,for decades in many instances, with no adverse effects beyond wear and tear that comes with the passage of time.

That juice for me is not worth the squeeze.

Knowing every thing I know now, most folks only need 3 watches max
1. Quality analog watch on a stainless steel bracelet
2. Quality digital watch which could be as modest as a 20USD Casio
3. A simple 3 hand analog watch on a black leather strap for after 5/weddings/funerals/formal events.

The over/under on the above is an easy day at 1k, doable all day long at 500 and possible even under 300 on a bet if I can buy used. The go/no go for me on the stainless watch is an essentially no scratchable sapphire crystal.

As men, particularly American men, have become much more casual in all manner of dress, quality of dress, shoes, quality and maintenance of the same, coupled with the erosion of formality in the workplace, most folks could get by on the first two.

This rant over.

[BillSWPA]

I try hard not to buy watches without screw down crowns and casebacks because I wear my watches and expose them to water. I rarely dive but I do have a basic open water certification. I have sometimes done my cardio by swimming laps. If a watch is not up to getting wet with water or sweat, being rinsed off in a sink, and then going to a client meeting, I have little use for it.

Recreational diving without decompression is limited to 130 feet. A 200 meter watch might not be good to the full 200 meters, but it ensures that unless something really goes wrong, it will be suitable for any reasonable use.

I do switch to something less expensive and with less moving parts when there is a real possibility of damage that I cannot reasonably expect a watch to withstand, for example, biking or ice skating. Hitting the watch wrong during a fall could be expensive.

[Trigger]

Knowing every thing I know now, most folks only need 3 watches max
1. Quality analog watch on a stainless steel bracelet
2. Quality digital watch which could be as modest as a 20USD Casio
3. A simple 3 hand analog watch on a black leather strap for after 5/weddings/funerals/formal events.

Ha! I/you only need three firearms.
1. Pistol
2. Shotgun
3. Rifle

<throws grenade and retreats quickly>

[PNWTO]

Ha! I/you only need three firearms.
1. Pistol
2. Shotgun
3. Rifle

<throws grenade and retreats quickly>

Haha, I’m kind of there; a T3X and a 590A1… just the pile of revolvers that needs a diet.

For watches, I think it was the guys from Two Broke Watch Snobs that coined the “Diver, Driver, Flyer” trifecta but I just can’t find a chronograph that appeals to me.

[vcdgrips]

TT

Not quite, but in that vein, we only need 4 to 8.

A carry pistol and matching training pistol ( i have done that with 9 and 40) with the pattern repeated for shotgun and rifle as applicable.

I confess I have but one shotgun (Mossberg 500) and one AR rifle. If I shot either more, I would get a dedicated trainer of each.

What we really need is more time to practice/train/shoot what we have and more ammo with which to accomplish that "mission"


IMHO, far too many folks in our realm are looking for hardware solutions to software problems.

Back to watches. 3 watch collection at 1000USD

Stainless-Tissot Gentleman at 569.00
https://www.jomashop.com/tissot-watc...11-051-00.html

Digital- Casio Worldtimer 30.00
https://www.casio.com/us/watches/cas...AE-1200WH-1AV/

Dress- Sternglas at 300ish
https://us.sternglas.com/products/sedius-black

[rd62]

I've worn my Seiko skx007 diving and my Garmin Instict doing laps, but have bought a wrist Dive computer as a better tool for the job of diving.

[PNWTO]

I've worn my Seiko skx007 diving and my Garmin Instict doing laps, but have bought a wrist Dive computer as a better tool for the job of diving.

For sure. Dive watches have aesthetics and heritage but, for actual diving, they’re a tertiary/optional piece when compared to a real dive computer.

If you’re reef-bumming, staying relatively shallow, and still using tables I can see a little more value, but anything much beyond that is near-reckless without a computer. And I wouldn’t go, or let my loved ones go, anywhere without a computer.

[DMCutter]

For sure. Dive watches have aesthetics and heritage but, for actual diving, they’re a tertiary/optional piece when compared to a real dive computer.

If you’re reef-bumming, staying relatively shallow, and still using tables I can see a little more value, but anything much beyond that is near-reckless without a computer. And I wouldn’t go, or let my loved ones go, anywhere without a computer.

I wear a watch in addition to my Shearwater just because it's easier to see what time it is on my watch than scrolling through the screens on the computer.