Watches... No... the other kind!

[Evadne]

Re:Casio and Seiko

I had a lovely Seiko self winder, good for 30m and all SS, purchased duty free from the purser on one of our ships for about £30 in 1983. I expect that's £250 to get the same thing from Debenhams today. It is on the bottom of Portsmouth harbour, near Hardway SC piles if you want it .. . probably getting rewound every time the tide turns.

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[Anthony]

Casio sea pathfinder thingy, £25, tells me the tide height, and even the time!

Who wants an expensive watch on a boat? It gets covered in suncream, scratched, bashed and battered. So if and when it breaks or I loose it, then I'll go buy another similer one!

Anthony

<hr width=100% size=1>The difference between men and boys, is just the price of their toys...

 

[walker]

In a moment of madness bought a Tag, but can't afford to run it. I don't like metal straps so got with a leather one. Special fitting means only Tag straps fit and c.£130 a pop every year or so. Decided to bite the bullet and get a steel strap after all - £700!!! Looking for a new watch.

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[windandwave]

Have the Casio Sea Pathfinder SPF40 w/ compass, barometer, and tide table:

Nice toy and remarkably accurate. Available for less than $100 in the US.

My ideal yachtie watch - definitely the Omega Seamasters mentioned by Neraida, esp. the America's Cup editions

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[LadyInBed]

Suunto M9 - Weather mode, Compass mode, Sailing mode, Navigation mode (GPS), Racing mode and it tells the time and can be sync'ed to GPS time.


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[jollyjacktar]

I use a cheap plastic wall clock. Ugly and horrible but readable from a great distance without my spectacles on. Uses on penlight battery, goes for about a year and accurate to about 30 seconds a year.???!!!!. Along with the radio broadcaste time signals, who needs a chronometre. Captain Cook eat yer heat out!!!! Besides this, the GPS thinghy has an atomic accurate clock display if you need the time.

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[Aardee]

Omega Seamaster Chronograph - Nice watch, not too flashy & very accurate for a "proper" watch...More reliable than I am /forums/images/icons/wink.gif!!

<hr width=100% size=1>"I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me" - A A Milne.

 

[iangrant]

Having spent years buying cheap watches I bought a second had rolex submariner "used" (I was going to say secondhand but hated the play on words). It survives about every knock and bump and just does the job. It can be used as currency in an emergency and can be sold for what I paid for it.. Should have bought one years ago and not "worked up" to it wasting money on cheapies in the process..
Couple of minutes slow each week.

Ian

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