I also have a Citizen Eco-drive. It's called a Pro-Master Tough (pretty pretentious name, I know), but it's brilliant. There's not a scratch on it after nearly 15 years (Wow!).
I was well chuffed when I saw Ray Mears wearing one!
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I also have a Citizen Eco-drive. It's called a Pro-Master Tough (pretty pretentious name, I know), but it's brilliant. There's not a scratch on it after nearly 15 years (Wow!).
I was well chuffed when I saw Ray Mears wearing one!
Oooohh. Nice.
That to me is pretty much what I want in an analogue watch and really the point of the article; no clutter just a nice, easy to read display. I especially like the super bright luminescence and numbered digits rather than dashes or markers.
Unfortunately that watch is no longer in production; the closest I have found which ticks these few boxes and no more is the even more aggressively names LumTec Combat B6...but even lot more wedge
The army issue CWC watches are very good value for money for a work-watch but priced heavily for the bravado people assign to them. Their luminosity is not as good but you can replace the battery yourself which is useful if your watch dies on the first day of your adventure.
For the ultimate macho watch, dripping with testosterone I think you'd be hard pushed to beat the Panerai PAM 332, a mere $15,000 and chosen by Stalone himself for the film and subsequently bought and worn for the film by Messers Statham & Lee. I think you would also have a hard job just to pick it up, judging by the size of it!
That to me is pretty much what I want in an analogue watch and really the point of the article; no clutter just a nice, easy to read display. I especially like the super bright luminescence and numbered digits rather than dashes or markers.
Unfortunately that watch is no longer in production; the closest I have found which ticks these few boxes and no more is the even more aggressively names LumTec Combat B6...but even lot more wedge
The army issue CWC watches are very good value for money for a work-watch but priced heavily for the bravado people assign to them. Their luminosity is not as good but you can replace the battery yourself which is useful if your watch dies on the first day of your adventure.
For the ultimate macho watch, dripping with testosterone I think you'd be hard pushed to beat the Panerai PAM 332, a mere $15,000 and chosen by Stalone himself for the film and subsequently bought and worn for the film by Messers Statham & Lee. I think you would also have a hard job just to pick it up, judging by the size of it!
Well if I had the cash spare (i.e. won the euromillions) I'd probably become a watch hoarder like JohnBaz. I have two likes which don't get fullfilled, watches and fountain pens. I never use fountain pens but still drool over a counter of fancy fountain pens but the watches I do use. I consider myself naked without a watch on. First thing I do when I get up is put my glasses on so I can see where my watch is to put it on. I have phones which have the time but it is not as practical as a watch. I mean a flick of the wrist compared with picking up your phone, pressing a button to wake it up then sliding the finger across the screen to get it from the sleep screen to the operating screen with the time on it (I have a galaxy smartphone).
Now my watch history (in order starting from the age of 9 or so) is sekonda wind up which is still in my drawer and works, casio digital (broke the case), accurist moonphase watch which was my 18th pressie (failed about 1-2 years later and was not repairable even by this Rolex recommended repair specialist in Liverpool), casio divers watch which works now but everything goes off when I press the light. (Deep breath for the rest). Then I got a Tissot watch at half price costing £160 to me when I bought it in a closing down sale at a watch repairer/jewelers who specialised in watches (£320 full price) as the guy was retiring and couldn't get anyone to run it for him. This was what I would call my first really good watch and was bought because I had broken some mid range watches (well £100-£200 SRRP) too quickly. Guess what? It failed in about a week after the year!! Should have taken back to retailer but it had closed. Next I got something else, It was a chronograph watch possibly an accurist or rotary or something like that. Failed 6 months. Then I got a casio tough solar watch. Still working after 2.5 years (touching wood frantically). It has a metal bracelet that is part of the watch frame so difficult to replace. I fell and it had gotten loose around my wrist so had dropped towards my hand. When I slipped and put my watch hand out it burst the strap off. I fixed it (after finding the pin) on the side of the hill but it had been dodgy since. Bloody good watch with the wavecepter autocorrect tech too.
SO I need a new watch but will go cheap. Saw these bright coloured timex ones which have analogue and date only on some forum I think. Also looked at breo (do about 4 varieties) but not sure of them. I do have an altimeter watch which was about £24 from F&T which works well for the watch, stopwatch and alarm use but the altimeter is temperamental to say the least.
Any watch suggestions for up to £50 that isn't a straight digital casio type. I like analogue or analogue and digi. Any ideas? Thought better to post this on another watch thread than have 3 on the go right now. JohnBaz - you got any ideas based on your experience / knowledge and collection? Spare one to a terminal watch killer??
Now my watch history (in order starting from the age of 9 or so) is sekonda wind up which is still in my drawer and works, casio digital (broke the case), accurist moonphase watch which was my 18th pressie (failed about 1-2 years later and was not repairable even by this Rolex recommended repair specialist in Liverpool), casio divers watch which works now but everything goes off when I press the light. (Deep breath for the rest). Then I got a Tissot watch at half price costing £160 to me when I bought it in a closing down sale at a watch repairer/jewelers who specialised in watches (£320 full price) as the guy was retiring and couldn't get anyone to run it for him. This was what I would call my first really good watch and was bought because I had broken some mid range watches (well £100-£200 SRRP) too quickly. Guess what? It failed in about a week after the year!! Should have taken back to retailer but it had closed. Next I got something else, It was a chronograph watch possibly an accurist or rotary or something like that. Failed 6 months. Then I got a casio tough solar watch. Still working after 2.5 years (touching wood frantically). It has a metal bracelet that is part of the watch frame so difficult to replace. I fell and it had gotten loose around my wrist so had dropped towards my hand. When I slipped and put my watch hand out it burst the strap off. I fixed it (after finding the pin) on the side of the hill but it had been dodgy since. Bloody good watch with the wavecepter autocorrect tech too.
SO I need a new watch but will go cheap. Saw these bright coloured timex ones which have analogue and date only on some forum I think. Also looked at breo (do about 4 varieties) but not sure of them. I do have an altimeter watch which was about £24 from F&T which works well for the watch, stopwatch and alarm use but the altimeter is temperamental to say the least.
Any watch suggestions for up to £50 that isn't a straight digital casio type. I like analogue or analogue and digi. Any ideas? Thought better to post this on another watch thread than have 3 on the go right now. JohnBaz - you got any ideas based on your experience / knowledge and collection? Spare one to a terminal watch killer??
i've just got this one, does every thing you have asked for but 20 quid more than your budget. Seems a great watch though.
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...ww.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...HOCK+WATCH.htm
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...ww.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...HOCK+WATCH.htm
I can't find mine online at all now. Its a waveceptor with tough solar power to it and hads analogue and a small digi window at the bottom. Dual time (one local and the other one of the other main time zones). Coutndown timer alarm, power indicator, day/date/time, at least two normal alarms and a chronograph (stopwatch function). All in a silver metal case (stainless steel coloured with a stainless stainless steel body and back). There is a painted plastic bit that covers the pin bit where the watch and the strap joins (annoyingly the paint has come off mostly). It is basically the similar thing to yours Robbi but charges itself up by the sun and gets the radio signal from the atomic clocks at Rugby and the German place too. There is somewhere in Japan and USA that you can get signals from but since this was UK/Europe market it only has the two locations for time correction. I got it as a present but I think it was about £150 about 2.5 or even 3.5 years ago I can't remember. Certainly my first half decent watch that has lasted. Shame about the bloody strap. I'd need to get the strap ordered in specially which is annoying and they might not have a suitable strap any more as it is now dis-continued. Can't put on any strap due to the way it is. Would look too carp if I did as the pin covers wouldn't be there. Looks good all stainless steel and a slightly sparkly silver grey face (guess something to do with the solar charging part of it).
50m water resistant adventurers watch? That translates as splash-proof, pretty much, not even safe in the shower. Most of these manufacturers ratings are static pressure, IIRC.
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I've got a Citizen Eco-Drive. They don't like being dropped and the NATO style strap is naff (mainly because it's either too tight or too loose - none of the riveted holes are the right distance for my puny wrists)
I'm often flabbergasted by the amounts people spend on watches (a lot of my colleagues have Breitlings) - why spend all that money for a hyper-accurate clockwork mechanism when a cheapo quartz movement is so cheap as to be effectively free, probably more accurate and more rugged?
I'm often flabbergasted by the amounts people spend on watches (a lot of my colleagues have Breitlings) - why spend all that money for a hyper-accurate clockwork mechanism when a cheapo quartz movement is so cheap as to be effectively free, probably more accurate and more rugged?
Saw something like this but not quite.
http://www.casio.co.uk/products/timepieces/casio-collection/Product/W-S200HD-1AVCF/
The one I saw was £45 and has the waveceptor thing from Casio and the tough solar which means solar powered or powered by any light source and has tough glass or mineral glass in it. It is 100m so IS suitable for swimming in and even diving off a board (not too high). Not the one in the link but the one I saw. I was taking my old watch (as described above) in to the jewellers my Gran got it from to replace the damaged strap (the only part of it that has gone wrong with the paint off the plastic pin cover bits and the loose fit at the pins. I had to leave it until next Friday which nearly made me grab it out of her hands and walk off. I mean, walk around in public without a watch?? OMG! Next she'll be making me walk naked back to my car because that is what being without a watch feels like to me. Anyway I asked if she closes at 5:30 and then looked at me watch. Damn! She had it tucked away with a label on it so I didn't know the time. She Pointed to the one clock on the walls of the entire shop that was set to the right time!! I mean it has clocks and watches all around the shop but there was only one set to the right time, WHY?!!!
So being without a watch I asked her for a cheap watch to tide me through. She said Casio. Which one?? Just casio. So I spent the next 10 minutes looking around and saw the £45 one that is quite nice. I could have walked out with a £15 one for now but I hesitated at £45 for a watch to last me a week. Will power was strong. Just as well as a few days before payday I'm skint. Anyway I got to the shop 15 minutes before closing time and couldn't look around for a breo which was one of my plans for a day to day backup watch.
So I am going to have to hunt around for a watch to wear for a week. I know I have this big and black digital barometer, altimeter and thermometer watch that I got from F&T for £25 - their own brand. I even thought about putting my very first watch on which is a Sekonda wind-up watch!! I am desparate! I'm watchless and can't cope.
Anyone else feel funny without a wrist watch on?? It has become more common not to wear watched as people always have their mobiles to check the time but I guess I am totally old school about timekeeping. It must be a wrist watch and you must be punctual too. I am very fussy about that. I reckon if I had been left a pocket watch I'd use that too!! A mate in his early 20s was recently spotted looking at the time on an old wind-up pocket watch!! Now I had respect for that as its real watchcraft IMHO. Is there anything better than buying yourself or someone important in your life a watch?? I think watches make the best pressies.
BTW Casio is called the J-movement I believe. Or at least I read that. It was the first time accuracy was available at a cheap price when they first came out. Now accuracy is easy to find at low prices but back then it was a real improvement. The Swiss kinda had things to themselves for true accuracy I reckon until Japanese Casio came along. IMHO and IME Casio make the best, most cost effective and durable watches. They just work and last too. Casio is really the only brand that has survived my ownership for longer than 2 years. I checked with my Gran and it was bought for me 3 Chrismases at least ago possibly 4. For me 2 years is a record but potentially it is 3.5 years old which is unheard of for me.
http://www.casio.co.uk/products/timepieces/casio-collection/Product/W-S200HD-1AVCF/
The one I saw was £45 and has the waveceptor thing from Casio and the tough solar which means solar powered or powered by any light source and has tough glass or mineral glass in it. It is 100m so IS suitable for swimming in and even diving off a board (not too high). Not the one in the link but the one I saw. I was taking my old watch (as described above) in to the jewellers my Gran got it from to replace the damaged strap (the only part of it that has gone wrong with the paint off the plastic pin cover bits and the loose fit at the pins. I had to leave it until next Friday which nearly made me grab it out of her hands and walk off. I mean, walk around in public without a watch?? OMG! Next she'll be making me walk naked back to my car because that is what being without a watch feels like to me. Anyway I asked if she closes at 5:30 and then looked at me watch. Damn! She had it tucked away with a label on it so I didn't know the time. She Pointed to the one clock on the walls of the entire shop that was set to the right time!! I mean it has clocks and watches all around the shop but there was only one set to the right time, WHY?!!!
So being without a watch I asked her for a cheap watch to tide me through. She said Casio. Which one?? Just casio. So I spent the next 10 minutes looking around and saw the £45 one that is quite nice. I could have walked out with a £15 one for now but I hesitated at £45 for a watch to last me a week. Will power was strong. Just as well as a few days before payday I'm skint. Anyway I got to the shop 15 minutes before closing time and couldn't look around for a breo which was one of my plans for a day to day backup watch.
So I am going to have to hunt around for a watch to wear for a week. I know I have this big and black digital barometer, altimeter and thermometer watch that I got from F&T for £25 - their own brand. I even thought about putting my very first watch on which is a Sekonda wind-up watch!! I am desparate! I'm watchless and can't cope.
Anyone else feel funny without a wrist watch on?? It has become more common not to wear watched as people always have their mobiles to check the time but I guess I am totally old school about timekeeping. It must be a wrist watch and you must be punctual too. I am very fussy about that. I reckon if I had been left a pocket watch I'd use that too!! A mate in his early 20s was recently spotted looking at the time on an old wind-up pocket watch!! Now I had respect for that as its real watchcraft IMHO. Is there anything better than buying yourself or someone important in your life a watch?? I think watches make the best pressies.
BTW Casio is called the J-movement I believe. Or at least I read that. It was the first time accuracy was available at a cheap price when they first came out. Now accuracy is easy to find at low prices but back then it was a real improvement. The Swiss kinda had things to themselves for true accuracy I reckon until Japanese Casio came along. IMHO and IME Casio make the best, most cost effective and durable watches. They just work and last too. Casio is really the only brand that has survived my ownership for longer than 2 years. I checked with my Gran and it was bought for me 3 Chrismases at least ago possibly 4. For me 2 years is a record but potentially it is 3.5 years old which is unheard of for me.
Fairly well the same reason some of us have hand made bushcraft knives whena Moras to the job.
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I'm a watch afficionado and a bit of a cheapskate. Eddie Platts at Timefactors offers great customer service and superb value for money if you want a mechanical watch. I have a PRS-17 and I'm thinking of buying a Speedbird 3, which if was sold by a Swiss brand would almost certainly cost over a grand.
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Well I took my watch back to the shop it was bought for me from and left it there to get a new metal strap. It will hopefully look as good as new then. It's still working and it is a casio but looks more formal than the usual casio sports watches (metal bracelet).
Anyway the watch guy said I'd have to leave it for a week at which point I guess I looked a little panicked. But, but, but that will leave me without a watch!! I nearly said in total panick and despair. Anyway I asked if they had a cheap and cheerful watch I could buy to tide me over. She said Casio. I said which one and she said Casio!! D'oh! Which Casio? and she replied anyone! So after five minutes of looking at a watch and asking her how much I more or less decided on a new model that had only just come out. It was £45 so I didn't get it but spend the rest of the day looking at my phone clock every couple of minutes (about 10 times as often as I normally look at my watch). I did do that looking at my empty wrist a few times until I learnt the watch was not there.
Went into another town the day later and £35!! Today I saw HH its £25!! still I've had it on my wrist at £10 off all weekend now and happy. Sneaking suspicion though that the £45 one in that shop on Friday was a diffferent model that is slightly better iwth waveceptor tech as well. If it is then I will need to spend £45 to get that. Resisted the altimeter watch for £60 down from £160!! Proud of myself.
Anyway, still considering a breo and that other casio if it is different. Also getting my old watch back Friday. All that means I've got a spare now and might have more spares. I still have a long way to go to match that guy with those hundreds of watches in the photo on his bed (or somewhere similar).
Anyway the watch guy said I'd have to leave it for a week at which point I guess I looked a little panicked. But, but, but that will leave me without a watch!! I nearly said in total panick and despair. Anyway I asked if they had a cheap and cheerful watch I could buy to tide me over. She said Casio. I said which one and she said Casio!! D'oh! Which Casio? and she replied anyone! So after five minutes of looking at a watch and asking her how much I more or less decided on a new model that had only just come out. It was £45 so I didn't get it but spend the rest of the day looking at my phone clock every couple of minutes (about 10 times as often as I normally look at my watch). I did do that looking at my empty wrist a few times until I learnt the watch was not there.
Went into another town the day later and £35!! Today I saw HH its £25!! still I've had it on my wrist at £10 off all weekend now and happy. Sneaking suspicion though that the £45 one in that shop on Friday was a diffferent model that is slightly better iwth waveceptor tech as well. If it is then I will need to spend £45 to get that. Resisted the altimeter watch for £60 down from £160!! Proud of myself.
Anyway, still considering a breo and that other casio if it is different. Also getting my old watch back Friday. All that means I've got a spare now and might have more spares. I still have a long way to go to match that guy with those hundreds of watches in the photo on his bed (or somewhere similar).
I have a seiko automatic. I like it because it's small and light. The canvas straps are totally worn tho not sure what to do, maybe get a leather replacement set.
I'm not really a 'Time' sort of person and I only wear mine for work. I don't reall like having things on my wrists. I have a wenger pocket watch, it's on it's third strap (a twine braid), it's seen a lot of use.
Does anyone carry a pocket watch?
I'm not really a 'Time' sort of person and I only wear mine for work. I don't reall like having things on my wrists. I have a wenger pocket watch, it's on it's third strap (a twine braid), it's seen a lot of use.
Does anyone carry a pocket watch?
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