Which watch to get

[Attack Warning Red]

I have a cheapo Casio '10-year battery' digital watch. It has the date on it.

I spend a lot of my time with my hands round the backs of computers and machines and equipment, so I don't worry about it getting scratched.

If I wore an expensive watch it'd get scratched and ruined within days.

[Technik]

I had a Seiko kinetic watch too but found it to be unreliable. Now have a normal battery operated one and it's ok-ish. Still looking for THE perfect one

[redskies]

It's a good question red. On your own or small groups you can pretty much just guess it but having order in a larger group or where you need to co-ordinate things having time pieces might just make life easier. You can also navigate very well with them if you know how.

Left without alarms and things, humans tend to revert a bit to the time when we woke at first light and slept not long after dark, especially when there's a full day of solid, physical work in the equation. You'll also find that the closer you're tuned to the cycles of the earth, the easier it gets to learn to tell the time by those.

It's not difficult to learn to tell an approximate time using the sun - and other factors around you. Your body will remind you of mealtimes, and animals of when they need to be milked and fed. The rhythyms of that kind of life are gentler than those we mostly run by these days, they're also far less rigid in many ways.

I wonder how larger groups managed a few hundred years ago?

[essgee23]

I dont have a watch (instead wear a paracord bracelet and a silver bangle)

totally rely on the blackberry for time keeping, and the corner of laptop/computer,

I do have a nice g-shock time piece - but just doesnt feel right on my wrist.

ill look up all the links you have posted so can make a more productive comment

[12mp82]

A few hundred years ago they rarely needed a time piece as most things were local time, but it is a different world we live in today, and it will be for a long time to come, and if we need to be in the next town to meet someone at a specific time then without a good time-piece it will be difficult.

In isolation it doesn't matter if we get up late, go to bed early and eat and drink when we are hungry or thirsty, but when dealing with the real world where unfortunately time is money it needs to be taken care of.

[essgee23]

A few hundred years ago they rarely needed a time piece as most things were local time, but it is a different world we live in today, and it will be for a long time to come, and if we need to be in the next town to meet someone at a specific time then without a good time-piece it will be difficult.

In isolation it doesn't matter if we get up late, go to bed early and eat and drink when we are hungry or thirsty, but when dealing with the real world where unfortunately time is money it needs to be taken care of.

that in response to me??

[redskies]

No, in response to me, I think.

My point was that in a SHTF scenario, I don't think watches will really matter, not least because how on earth, once your watch stops, which it will at some point, will you ever set it on the correct time again?

[12mp82]

A few hundred years ago they rarely needed a time piece as most things were local time, but it is a different world we live in today, and it will be for a long time to come, and if we need to be in the next town to meet someone at a specific time then without a good time-piece it will be difficult.

In isolation it doesn't matter if we get up late, go to bed early and eat and drink when we are hungry or thirsty, but when dealing with the real world where unfortunately time is money it needs to be taken care of.

that in response to me??

Nah, just a general comment SG, I used to live like that, but it is hard to keep an appointment without a time piece in the UK, especially when the sun isn't shining much

The chances of SHTF to such an extent that we don't need a time piece is way down the probability list in my plans.

[metatron]

I like and collect watches, the one I'm wearing largely depends what I'm doing/wearing. If its jeans and a tshirt and down the pub or out and about I could wear a Victorinox Chrono, Rolex Submariner, a few Nixon, and a few Super dry watches, I even own about 50 Swatches, lol.

If its a suit I own a few Tissot, two Omega Speedmaster, my Tag Heuer Carrera Calibre looks nice with a suit same could be said for the Baume & Mercier Capeland or Maurice Lacroix Pontos S Diver, in the gym I wear a G-Shock watch.

I could list a whole bunch of watches but unless you are a little obsessive like me, there would be no point, lol

Watches are like works of art, most of mine have gone up in value and are hand crafted for the most part. If you look after them there is no reason why they can't last several life times, for example I still have my great granddads Patek Philippe, although it is locked in an old post office safe (ebay) with everything else of value.

[90.]

I had an animal watch bought for me in 97' worn out many straps but only 2 batteries & it kept perfect time took it diving, snorkeling, I dropped an engine on it, got it wedged in a chassis when a jack slipped, absolutely faultless looked cheap enough to be ignored when i traveled abroad but i loved it.

The numbers on the rotating bezel dropped of last year in 30mtrs of water, last week I sent it to animal for repair to be told it was too long out of service.. totally bummed out and now also in need of an everyday watch.

I'm wearing a rolex explorer 2 for work at mo.. bought it as a ransom watch for some of the dodgy parts of the world i visit.

I'm edging towards the timex explorer for a replacement but like the idea of the kinetic's. i' surprised to hear about reliability issues.

post up what you settle on.

regards
90.