Citizen EcoDrive. Brill watch, accurate and much lighter than it looks and the lumes do a full night.
What's your favorite watch?
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A few of my wearers at the moment
Johnnyboy what's the watch on the far right??? Mmmm watches........stop it!!!!!
I was just looking at this one on the Timex website. How well does the compass perform?
Automatic for me, the quartz jobbies die on me after just a few months. Have a simple Sinn 656 and had it 5 or 6 years now, no complaints other than the original strap rotting off my wrist in the eastern sahara. Although I think any leather strap would have gone the same way.
Nite MX-10 except the straps just do not last and can't be replaced except with their replacements. Currently mines a drawer queen as I can't merit the 20 for a replacement and they have stopped making the OG version I like.
Otherwise a cracking watch, brilliant at night, let down by a strap that cracks to bits after a couple of years daily wear. I got a couple of months extra out of the last strap using a industrial stapler and green nasty...
So currently I'm using a clockwork Excalibur pocket watch on a plaited hootchie cord fob herself made me.
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Tom
Otherwise a cracking watch, brilliant at night, let down by a strap that cracks to bits after a couple of years daily wear. I got a couple of months extra out of the last strap using a industrial stapler and green nasty...
So currently I'm using a clockwork Excalibur pocket watch on a plaited hootchie cord fob herself made me.
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Tom
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My Suunto leaks like a sieve now and fogs up even if walking in the rain. This even after using a proper battery change and replacement seal kit. I also find that the digital compass is pretty inaccurate and is only an emergency standby for approximate bearing. Others may have had a better experience. I now wear a proper waterproof automatic watch and carry a good compass!
I agree. I've had a Suunto Vector's battery fail on me mid-multi-day outing, which was frustrating to say the least. Now, I take my Bremont U2 for telling the time, my Suunto compass for pointing me in the right direction and my Thommen altimeter for letting me know how high I am or whether the weather is about to do unspeakable things to me. No batteries anywhere and so, no problem!
A few of my wearers at the moment
I like them all- you sir have impeccable taste
John
Many thanks for that John must put my hand up and say that I trained as a watch and clock maker for 5 years some of that time spent in Switzerland, there are many fantastic watches out there some with recognised names, and some that people have not even heard of, I tend to go for the older makes of watches and with complications , such as up and down work, chronograph, day, date, month, moon phase etc. No disrespect but I'm not a great fan of quarts watches however they do have there place in watch history, think my favourite battery watch would have to be a tuning fork watch or some of the old L.E.D watches.
The one im wearing at the moment £12 Timex expedition with a five year battery that has just run out after 6 years not bad really.
If I could get more than a few months out of a battery powered watch thats the type of thing I'd be using. Sounds like a good one.
I love my Divex divers watch. Its really robust and quite heavy. My mate bought it for me when he was working on the DSV Skandi Achiever. The watch is branded with the vessel name and it has great sentimental value as well as looking the dogs danglies.
I once had a citizen eco drive that kept losing battery power. I sent it back 4 times had 2 replacements in different models and they all did the same. Maybe its because I wear long sleeves in winter and the watch never got enough light. I wouldn't have one again.
I was bought a Seiko Kinetic about 20 years ago as an xmas present. I had it for 10 years and it never let me down. Some nice scrote decided to help themselves to the contents of my locker while swimming and that was the last I ever saw of it. My dads is still going strong after 35 years. One day when funds allow I will get another one but I can't see that happening anytime soon
I was bought a Seiko Kinetic about 20 years ago as an xmas present. I had it for 10 years and it never let me down. Some nice scrote decided to help themselves to the contents of my locker while swimming and that was the last I ever saw of it. My dads is still going strong after 35 years. One day when funds allow I will get another one but I can't see that happening anytime soon
My dad got the brother and I a seiko automatic each when we were 10 & 12, I wore and put that watch through all sorts of assorted hardship until I fell in a burn and broke the glass when I was 26, it stopped working after that.
Then I went through periods of not wearing a watch or wearing real cheapies, trouble was I'd get 6 months and they'd start going wonky, stopping starting etc. So I thought I'd buy a better watch, that was a £100+ battery powered with a very bright self illuminating dial, really liked it. After about 5 or 6 months it started playing up too, I happened to be in london and just walked into a jewelers and asked them to change the battery, the guy whipped the battery out and tested it; "nothing wrong with this, it should last 5 to 6 years".
We got talking and I told him I can never get a battery watch to last any more than 6 months or so, he told me that there are people who can't go the battery watches and that I should look at a mechanical watch.
So I looked into it. Seemingly this is contested by the scientific community as a jewelers myth, but then I have a half dozen plus newish knackered battery powered watches in an old box that say there's something to it, so I bought an automatic 6 years ago and it's still going strong. Myth or not I'll be avoiding battery powered in future.
Then I went through periods of not wearing a watch or wearing real cheapies, trouble was I'd get 6 months and they'd start going wonky, stopping starting etc. So I thought I'd buy a better watch, that was a £100+ battery powered with a very bright self illuminating dial, really liked it. After about 5 or 6 months it started playing up too, I happened to be in london and just walked into a jewelers and asked them to change the battery, the guy whipped the battery out and tested it; "nothing wrong with this, it should last 5 to 6 years".
We got talking and I told him I can never get a battery watch to last any more than 6 months or so, he told me that there are people who can't go the battery watches and that I should look at a mechanical watch.
So I looked into it. Seemingly this is contested by the scientific community as a jewelers myth, but then I have a half dozen plus newish knackered battery powered watches in an old box that say there's something to it, so I bought an automatic 6 years ago and it's still going strong. Myth or not I'll be avoiding battery powered in future.
I'm with you on that one, have tried numerous battery watches over the years and they don't last long. Use a Seiko Automatic (got two) and they work fine on me.
