Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many of you wear a wrist watch?

No watch for me. There's always a clock around work, and when I'm working outside I can usually tell what time it is quite well enough.

Sometimes take one hunting just so I can prove that I abided by the shooting hours.

that's why they have cell phones.

I have an Omega Speedmaster Mk IV that costs about $1,100 every 7-9 years for cleaning and rebuilding plus a Omega Constellation that costs about $1,200 every 10 or so years for the same service. Now I wear a $20 Casio that I throw away every 5 or so years when the battery needs replacement.

The Omegas are kept in a safe deposit box for whatever lies in he future, I wear the Casio daily.

Every day.

I settled on Citizen Eco Drive or Traser.

A belt, a knife, a time piece, a pen(or pencil), a small tape measure........................

I have been wearing a Seiko 5 Military every day for about eight years. It started getting bit ratty looking, so I decided to get something just a but flashier. I was set on getting another Seiko, probably an SKX007, until I stumbled across the Invicta Dive Pro.

Yes, its an Invicta..generally considered the trailer trash of the watch world. I did some research, and this seems to be the one model they make that has a good track record. I made sure and got one with the Miyota movement. For under a hundred bucks, why not? So far its been a very good watch, and I have been very impressed.

I wear cheap watches because I beat them up, and stand a very good chance of getting blood, vomit, feces, etc on them. The Invicta, while a cheap watch, still looks respectable, and seems to keep excellent time. If it dies earlier than expected, it will be replaced with another Seiko.

I have a cheap Timex analog quartz on a Nato Strap that I wear hunting, and the Seiko 5 still gets some play when occasionally. Regardless, a watch of some sort is on my wrist from the time I wake till the time I go to sleep, every day.

Quit wearing a wrist watch about 40 years ago. Would sooner or later without fail, ruin it. If it didn't get destroyed with liquid or chemicals or the crystal broken, it would get so scratched you almost couldn't see thru it.
So I began keeping a time piece in my pocket. Did that until I began to carry a cell with a clock.
No reason to carry two things that do the same thing.
So nope, I don't wear a wrist watch.

Here's the original receipt and that was a lot of money back then. No way would I fork out $7-8,000 for a new one; cost me $350 to have it cleaned...... If it ever quits running I may have to sell it......

Quality aside, those watches were made for people who like to spend money and show it. $350.00 for Bill Gates to clean a watch is less than one of us buying a morning cup of coffee...

Goes to show you how far out of touch you are from reality.

I still have the O & W, it is the M16 version offered by Westcoasttime. I replaced it with a H3 Pro Diver, which I prefer.

Both watches feature Tritium Gas vials, Sapphire crystal, screw down back, and screw down crown.




H3

O & W

I wear an Omega Seamaster that I bought in London in 2003, and I feel the same way. I've worn it surfing in South Africa, scuba diving in Australia... it's been to the top of Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, to my first hunt in WY, to my recent hunt in Zululand, to my wedding, birth of my two children, to my military tour in Djibouti. I expect I'll have it through many other memories!

The $350 cleaning fee every 5 years is a PITA, though. I'll give you that! lol.

Eric

Laco 1944

Very nice! Solid working man's tools.

I really like the O&W M16. One reason I went with the Hamilton I have now is that it looks so much like the old O&W. You've got the 12 hour bezel, though, which is even better to keep track of a second time zone.

Oh really? Check on the wait time for certain models..

I do have this one, all white gold. It was my grandfathers

Still saving my pennies for a Submariner. Until then, I generally don't wear one.

I had that exact same watch, a Hamilton King Scuba Automatic, until I lost the damned thing dragging a deer last fall.



I've since moved up to a Longines Hydroconquest:

I don't wear a watch and never will. Wife bought me a pocket watch but it just sits in a drawer in the kitchen.

If I do wear one it's on the left arm and face down, opposite of Bricktop's.

I always have one on, sometimes I really shouldn't. My watches are generally metal band watches because other bands break too easy. But since they are metal bands, weld spatter sticks to the band. My watches look like chit in a short time. face all pitted from burns, weld berries stuck to the watch frame and band. Every now and then I'll get a big ole red hot weld berry stuck between my band and my wrist. They burn in real nice.