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

[wildrover]

Jerry Ahern, that brings back some memories

Sea Dweller rather than a Submariner and I still own a Russell Sting from the early eighties

I found them in the loft about 2 years ago and re-read them. What can I say... :AR15firin :AR15firin :AR15firin
What finish on the Sting?
Plain, Black Chrome or Black Teflon (like what I've got)

 

[Minotaur]

Oh dear someone else who read those books

I haven't managed to get a Submariner yet, but I do have a Gerber Mark II and an AG Russell Sting (and it's not the CRKT copy either)

Oh and I wear a Seiko SXK007 on a Bond Nato (Lovely) i'd post a pic but haven't sussed it yet

Jerry Ahern, that brings back some memories

Sea Dweller rather than a Submariner and I still own a Russell Sting from the early eighties

I found them in the loft about 2 years ago and re-read them. What can I say... :AR15firin :AR15firin :AR15firin
What finish on the Sting?
Plain, Black Chrome or Black Teflon (like what I've got)

Just to really scare you. Not including the one ofs, so just the numbered ones, there are 27 books.

I find it really hard to part with cash for things I will not use, but yes an AG Sting is sat in my Ebay watch list.

But back to subject, just got hold of the Invicta catalog from website, some very nice watches in it. The look for a reasonable price.

 

[Martyn]

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.

Exactly the same here ...well almost. Mine has a black face. In fact I have 2, one in stainless steel with a bracelet like this....

and one in titanium with a nato strap. Brilliant watches.

 

[Don Redondo]

I still wear my late dad's vintage [1967] Rolex GMT Master even though it badly needs a service I suppose I'm used to the weight and anything else feels instubstantial.

 

[Graham_S]

I'm another Jerry Ahern fan (well I was in my youth)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Survivalist
I've got a few toys from the books. I actually fired (and nearly owned) a Detonics Combatmaster back in the early 90's (I did have a colt python though )

On topic,
I've got a bit of a thing for Citizen promaster watches. I've got one on my wrist at the moment.
I'd like an Omega Speedmaster chrono though.

 

[sandsnakes]

As a watch collector I get to talk to lots of watch owners and repairers.

My watch repairer in Uxbridge Mr Ralph reccomends this one. Its a quratz base in stainless and is good for 100m depth. This is based on what he has to mend and the faults he often finds with them.

AVIA Polar Star 100

Avia is an old make of watch. The Polar 100 is a chrome watch for divers, has big glow in the dark hands, and big markers on the dial you can read it in the dark without your glasses. Its an under £60 watch and you can pick them up on ebay for about £20 if you look. It is VERY strong and will take any abuse including abuse under water. On his recomendation I have used one now for 5 years, it has been to the bottom of the ocean several times, hit with an axe, kicked, eaten or at least chewed by a dog and is still going strong. Been to bush moots and everywhere I can think of.

The watch maker was impressed because its the only one he has never seen destroyed by a man using a road drill and jack hammer. Now that is tough!

Sandsnakes

 

[Tadpole]

As a watch collector I get to talk to lots of watch owners and repairers.

My watch repairer in Uxbridge Mr Ralph reccomends this one. Its a quratz base in stainless and is good for 100m depth. This is based on what he has to mend and the faults he often finds with them.

AVIA Polar Star 100

Avia is an old make of watch. The Polar 100 is a chrome watch for divers, has big glow in the dark hands, and big markers on the dial you can read it in the dark without your glasses. Its an under £60 watch and you can pick them up on ebay for about £20 s

this one is going for less than £12

 

[sandbender]

I'm another Jerry Ahern fan (well I was in my youth) I've got a few toys from the books. I actually fired (and nearly owned) a Detonics Combatmaster back in the early 90's (I did have a colt python though )

I read somewhere that Mr Ahern liked the Detonics product range so much, he bought the company

 

[Graham_S]

I read somewhere that Mr Ahern liked the Detonics product range so much, he bought the company

Jerry Ahern was the president of Detonics USA from 2004 to 2007.
He used to write for "guns and Ammo" a lot too.

On Topic

I'm not a fan of breitling watches, the faces seem to big for me.

 

[Doc]

I usually wear a Tag Heuer that is boringly reliable, waterproof and survives seawater and neglect. I do like mechanical watches though - they are tiny, precision machines after all.

An 'interesting' mechanical watch is the Soviet Vostok Amphibian - mechanical, genuinely waterproof to 200m, and pretty robust. You can get them used for £15-£20 delivered on ebay. There are a wide variety of different models.

Vostok also made the 'Radio Officer' version, which has the SOS 'silent periods' marked on the quarter hour, as per the international radio regulations.

I already have a Smiths Astral Radio Room clock in my radio shack so I was pleased to find a Vostok Radio Officers watch in a junk shop in Falmouth this summer. It's a bit different.

 

[ScarletPimpernel]

Today, I'm wearing one of these:

I also have a Panerai PAM00048 on a rubber strap, and an Oris TT Diver.

 

[widu13]

Mines a £1300 Omega Seamaster that I haven't took off at all in the 2 months I've owned it. I don't care if it gets wrecked- I got it with Tesco clubcard vouchers! It's my first ever decent watch. Keeps much better time than any of my watches before.

 

[Celt_Ginger]

Tag Aquaracer Professional. I managed to break a spring bar in a Go Karting accident. It got run over by at least 3 Karts, got scraped along the race track and apart from the broken spring bar and some minor scratches to the strap (not a mark on the face) it was in perfect working order.

 

[Templar]

I like many types of watch... I just keep Killing them... the only ones I haven't killed yet are my Timex ones : A Timex Expedition Aluminum Trail (Subdued) with a retrofitted US Military green Nylon strap and my newer Timex T Racing Chronograph...

The Expedition was my Bog standard for ten years in the military... I would get other ones along the way but always came back to it coz it was bomb proof... (Literally)...

Cheers Karl

 

[Nonimouse]

First Post!

Have a peek at the Lorus Sports Lumibrite. 30 years of breaking watches and never finding the right one then three years ago I tried one of these. Cheap enough to be disposable, tough as hell, good strap and all you need on the face. Battery life is good too. The luminous face has become an essential. Most of my friends now use them even my wife asked for one for Christmas!

 

[Paganwolf]

Omega Seamaster or a Nite TX10.

 

[morch]

Omega Seamaster, Tag Heuer Monaco or, the one that gets worn the most, a cheap £20 throwaway from the local post office

Dave

 

[hiho]

G-Shock 1000D today as i'm off work, cheap pulsar for work, or an armani one if i'm out

 

[squantrill]

tissot touch titanium strap

 

[Native Justice]

I've always loved chronos myself, both digital and mechanical. Currently wearing the Tag F-1 digital (standard face with inset digital LCD functions) with a Timex Expedition digital chrono w/ compass.

NJ