What watch are you wearing? Sep 2018

[azkid]

Since we have some watch enthusiasts among us I thought we ought to have a WRUW thread.

I've been wearing my latest acquisition, a Casio Edifice 503d, for most of the last few weeks. It came on the NATO but also with bracelet included.



I had been searching for one of these for months and months and a used one finally came up for an incredible deal which I pounced all over.

I guess it is sort of a Speedy homage or at least in that style and since I seriously doubt I will ever be able to justify buying the real mccoy, I have this.

[jar]

Today it is the Samsung Gear S3. Yesterday it was the Samsung Gear S.

[Fermata]

A Lange, old, battered and scruffy, still going.

Hmmm.

[adhoc]

Stowa

A Lange, old, battered and scruffy, still going.

Hmmm.

ALS deserves a picture, I think!

[FredRydr]

In 2008 I got the Ball Fireman with tritium gas tubes so I could easily see time day or night. The series was being discontinued that year, but I managed to get one. It's now ten years old, and alas, the tritium gas light is fading.

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[BlkWhiteFilmPix]

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The Waltham watch the Army issued my Dad when it meritoriously advanced him to First Sergeant and awarded him the Bronze Star for valor in the Philippines during World War II.

Because the medal in the picture is a replacement, it does not display the "V" for valor that the original medal - stolen in a burglary - and the ribbon on my Dad's uniform displayed.

In seventy-four years the only adjustment it needed was after six and seven-mile bike rides damaged something. The watchmaker who fixed it had served in the Navy during WWII, and suggested not taking it on any more bone-jarring rides.

[An old bloke]

The same Cabot Watch Co. dive watch my late wife gave me for Christmas more than 20 years ago.

[Wile E Coyote]

I don't wear watches on non-working days.

[jmccarty3]

A steel Omega Broad Arrow Speedmaster Chronograph with a white dial and blued hands and indices.

[Rapidray]

My Seiko kinetic dive watch.

[Robert]

Timex Expedition (with Indiglo!). Takes a licking and keeps on ticking! (And it's cheap.)

[Scooby921]

In 2008 I got the Ball Fireman with tritium gas tubes so I could easily see time day or night. The series was being discontinued that year, but I managed to get one. It's now ten years old, and alas, the tritium gas light is fading.

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I had a watch which used the tritium tube infused dial and hands out of a Marathon Navigator. I too was a bit disappointed when the tritium tubes reached their half-life and dimmed. It was still fantastic for night visibility as they don't need charging like normal lume, but it wasn't the torch it used to be.



I was wearing this one yesterday. Today it's a Lum-Tec M65.

[BlkWhiteFilmPix]

Timex Expedition (with Indiglo!). Takes a licking and keeps on ticking! (And it's cheap.)

Remember the Hill Street Blues episode where Larue and Washington joked about a Timex watch?

[azkid]

I don't recall that episode... Hmm. I am a big time fan, though. A Timex Sprite was my first watch. I had it as a kid and gave it to my daughter, 40 years later. It still runs fine.

This one dates to 1973 and after I serviced it, it is running great and keeping time acceptably well... for a Timex.

[Rapidray]

My Casio Mudman watch today.

[BlkWhiteFilmPix]

I don't recall that episode... Hmm. I am a big time fan, though. A Timex Sprite was my first watch. I had it as a kid and gave it to my daughter, 40 years later. It still runs fine.

This one dates to 1973 and after I serviced it, it is running great and keeping time acceptably well... for a Timex.

Frank Furillo at his finest ... https://youtu.be/No0H2TpuGT4

[VertOlive]

A Mio. It's able to monitor my heart rate when I do laps in the pool. No style points, but it's the only such device that functions really well in the water..

[RocketRyan]

Today a Frederique Constant classic index with the grey dial and e strap. The e strap is kinda poor in operation, but I think the watch is pretty.

[azkid]

GShock today.

[heraclitus682]

Seiko SKX007. Tomorrow I should get a new bracelet in the mail for my Turtle, so that should hog my wrist the rest of the week.