Wrist watches

lustyd said:
I wear a Garmin Fenix 8. It has a torch (red and white) built in, can display charts, does plotter stuff, compass and GPS plus barometer. It’s a capable dive watch and monitors health and records various activities. Battery lasts around 10 days.
It also has sapphire crystal, titanium case and strap and I have leather and silicone straps for it which swap in seconds.
Best watch I’ve ever had.
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Careful where you go, it also has a mugger magnet...... :eek:
 
I had a Rolex 'Submariner' in the back of a drawer for years. I paid ca £100 for it in Hong Kong in 1971.

My wife said I should either sell it or have it serviced.

I sent it to a specialist and he offered me £12,000 for it.

Stunned, I foolishly accepted his offer. I could have got much more for it had I haggled.

But hey, £12k out-of-the-blue for something I attached little value to, and didn't use, was a nice surprise!
 
When I was about 10yrs old ... my Father bought a Seiko Sportsmatic watch for each of us sons ... beautiful watch - slim and as per original Seiko - highly accurate. I am now 69yrs old and still have it .. still works - but due to age - accuracy is not so good depending on seasonal temperature ...

I have a box full of watches ... from a Gold face Rolex Oyster (with my eyes now - I cannot read it being gold hands .. gold numbers and face !). My sons will get it when I shuffle away !
Tissot - a couple of them ... one a full divers job - other a 'dress watch' ...
Various cheap analogue and digitals incl the old original Casio's and calculator watches
Citizen sports
Russian military watch
G-Shock ... one of the early ones .... horrible thing !
The Seiko 5 I bought when at sea - that got stolen out of the house about 10yrs ago ... not the best of Seiko's watches !! It replaced part of the metal self-winding mechnaism with plastic .... not a good idea.

I did have the Full yachting Race watch of Casio years ago - but the strap broke one day while on the bow and its now gracing the Solent sea-bed.

Now I wear a Casio MOV-107 WR Divers watch ... (Bill Gates is reported and photos online of him owning / waering same model ...). Not your cheap Casio ... but price is good for what has been reliable and accurate. I don't 'Dive' ... but like the time dial function ...
 
thinwater said:
Not since about 1983 (graduated from college), IIRC. No function since then IMO. Certainly not once cell phones became common in the 90s. Just something to snag and generally a safety hazard.
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I guess you don't race..., a wrist watch with a countdown and sync feature is pretty useful for sailboat racing, in both dinghys and big boats

sure, there are other solutions.., and i have tried a lot of them.., but I keep coming back to the wrist watch; it's just better.
 
Poignard said:
A glance at the clock on the saloon forward bulkead always worked for me.
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I can do that in my 25ft'r .... but the clock in the 38ft'r is a little too far to see time with my eyes now ..

But my point was aimed more at the suggestions of mobile phone instead of a watch. I have plotter screen in cockpit shows time ... but I still look at my watch ...
 
I would like to get myself a MWC dirty dozen watch. My grandad had an original one from ww2 and it was left to me but went missing :(
 
Just celebrating the 3rd year of ownership of my Temu £8 watch. Purchased purely for superior night light if required. Been battered camping and boating and so far..hasn't missed a beat.👍

 
I will not buy anything from Temu after having had 2 out of 3 purchases go missing and Temu failed to have any interest whatsoever in solving. I will only buy from them if Wife insists on an item she sees ....
 
Laser310 said:
I guess you don't race..., a wrist watch with a countdown and sync feature is pretty useful for sailboat racing, in both dinghys and big boats

sure, there are other solutions.., and i have tried a lot of them.., but I keep coming back to the wrist watch; it's just better.
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Somewhere in the house I’ve still got the Ingersoll sailing countdown watch I had in the ‘50s. It is hardly a masterpiece of horology but for a ten-minute countdown it did its job. They don’t make them like that any more, thank goodness.
 
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