Watches!

I wear an Ingerssol Richmond. All automatic. I have a watch case of others I've gotten from younger, but this is my favorite. All-American, baby. And yes, you'll see me wearing it camping a lot.
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and here's their promo video
[video=youtube;1hBM2v5r7E8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hBM2v5r7E8[/video]
 
Garrett said:
I wear an Ingerssol Richmond. All automatic. I have a watch case of others I've gotten from younger, but this is my favorite. All-American, baby. And yes, you'll see me wearing it camping a lot.
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and here's their promo video
[video=youtube;1hBM2v5r7E8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hBM2v5r7E8[/video]
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thats a great looking watch. i had never heard of that brand. how well does it keep time?
 
It keeps time in excellent fashion as long as you wear it everyday. The automatic movement will last about a day and a half without wearing until it stops.
 
So how many sport a pocket watch? I can't wear a wrist watch...they just won't keep time on me... even the expensive ones. I generally wear an older Timex quartz... takes a beating and still ticking, or a Bulova quartz or occasionally an old Russian wind-up pocket watch that the case is built like a tank. All keep great time and tuck neatly in my vest pocket.
 
Not sure how I missed this thread. I've gotten back into watches this year and have lately been hooked on less expensive ($200-ish) watches. I got this Citizen Eco-Drive for camping. It's on a Hirsch Terra Tuscan leather strap. Like others, I was drawn to the accuracy of a quartz watch with the benefit of not having to change a battery for presumably decades via solar recharging.

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Then I got bit by the automatic bug. The Seiko 5 series is hard to beat. This one is on a Crown & Buckle Royale faux alligator leather strap. I think I wear this one the most.
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My last acquisition, a second field watch, is another Seiko 5 Sports. This one is on a rustic Panatime Explorer leather strap. The strap doesn't fit right, so I'm thinking of finding something more suitable (probably another Hirsch... they feel nice on the wrist).
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This my collection . Like I mentioned early , the SUB has been with me since 1975. Left to right Wenger, Breitling Emergency, Breithing Chronograph, Luminox. Marathon JSAR, Luminox. Suunto Elementum, Seiko, Rolex Submariner, Panerai Luminar 262/800, Omega Seamaster.
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I havent had good relations with watches. Used to carry my gradfathers old Illinois pocket watch, but was hard on it, the hands fell off a couple times, and I lost the engraved jump ring on the stem. I put it away.

Had a nice Seiko my dad gave me. After having it in the shop several times for hands and numbers falling off, and about the 3rd time I cracked the crystal, I threw it away, it had turned into a money pit and was more irritation than anything.

Splurged $20 and bought a Timex (I think?) Forrester. It was ok, but the velcro on the band wore out, as well as the base metal was irritating my skin, I'd get a rash when I wore it. Tried med tape over the back, it didnt help. I gave up. My cell has a clock, as does my vehicle, and almost every appliance most people have (I have few). Its rarely difficult to find the time when one needs to without having a watch. I think watches increase my blood pressure anyway, besides just being annoying on my wrist. I'm happiest without one.
 
I always wore watches when I was younger,mostly the Casio G-shocks,but I haven't worn watches for years since I could just see the time on my cell phone.But the Timex Expedition caught my eye and my wife picked it up for me for Christmas. I really like this watch.

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mmmm gas said:
I always wore watches when I was younger,mostly the Casio G-shocks,but I haven't worn watches for years since I could just see the time on my cell phone.But the Timex Expedition caught my eye and my wife picked it up for me for Christmas. I really like this watch.
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That Time Expedition is a really nice-looking watch. Though I'm partial to military-style watches. ;)

Timex's Indiglo is so useful. They must have one hell of a patent or lucked into a long-term exclusive-use agreement with the inventor as it seems nobody else has something similar that illuminates the whole face.

I like the watches with tritium too, though they're all pretty far outside my budget. So far I've been making do with the luminescent hands & markers which do the job on both my Citizen and my Seikos. They last almost all night if I've been in the sun or under good light at dusk.
 
It's a cockpit clock alright! Soviet spring-driven with flight timers. I think these were the standard in everything from cargo planes to fighters, but I'm not sure.
 
I always seem to break wrist watches, but they are handy while overlanding, so I had my gf get me a cheap Timex Expedition (they make a ton of different ones) for Christmas last year. So far, it has made it a year and counting without breaking. Primary feature I like is Indiglo backlight...best illumination ever.
Next essential feature is a movable timing ring.
All other features are unneeded but some are nice to have:
dual time zones
alarms
date (to figure out when you have to start heading for home.
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http://www.timex.com/watches/expedition-resin-combo-t451819j
 
A second time zone, or GMT for that matter, would be a nice feature to have. At work, I'm dealing with hardware and people in tons of different time zones and it would be nice to have GMT to make faster local time calculations in my head.

Also in ham radio a ton of stuff is in Zulu time, not that I'm active much at all on HF... yet. (I'm a general class, have the radio, tuner, just need to get a darned antenna up at home!)
 
No pics - I own two watches, both from my father.

Rolex Stainless Steel - circa 1979 per the serial number. My mom gave it to me when he died 25 years ago. It's a family heirloom as far as I'm concerned that I'll pass to my son. It's priceless.
Rolex - older smaller gold plated I think?. Serial number is scratched up to the point where I don't know the age but guy that's cleaned the stainless confirmed it was a genuine Rolex. Haven't had this one cleaned as it runs about $600! :wow It did not have a Rolex band on it. It had an old Speidel flex band that my father probably put on to ease taking it on and off washing his hands between patients back in the day before latex gloves for anything but surgery. Who knows. I put a faux Rolex band on. A 'real' one would have been over $1000! I don't have that kind of $$ for a watch band. Mods for the Landcruiser...well, that's different!
 
Yessir. I was fortunate enough to have gone on a flight in a Hind (russian attack helicopter) and they had them too.
 
mmmm gas said:
I always wore watches when I was younger,mostly the Casio G-shocks,but I haven't worn watches for years since I could just see the time on my cell phone.But the Timex Expedition caught my eye and my wife picked it up for me for Christmas. I really like this watch.
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I really like it too! Very nice design.

I am also partial to the Timex Expedition watches and have three. One is pretty generic and cost me under 30 bucks off of Steep & Cheap. Another has a rubber wrist band and good water resistance and I use it for snorkeling etc. Then there's this one which has been my daily watch for the last year or so:
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I've been happy with the function and durability of the Expeditions. I have a pricey Marathon GSAR that broke and never held time as reliably as these watches that cost like 1/10th the price...
 
Oh God, I can hear those Timex's ticking from behind my screen!

I bought one of the Timex expedition watches as my beater/camp watch, but I've had to switch back to one of my automatics just because the tick keeps me up at night.

From across the room.
Inside a box.

(Seriously, I was keeping it in my watch case on the dresser and I could still hear it ticking.) In my van or in a tent, it'd ridiculous.
 
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