What watch would you buy if

[ron finkbeiner jr]

You wouldn't be usng it for telling the time, what would you use it for ?....

Well, let me put it this way. I don't scuba dive or do SAR. Besides, If my fat Butt went down that deep I might get mistaken for Moby Dick.....

 

[Haze]

Well, let me put it this way. I don't scuba dive or do SAR. Besides, If my fat Butt went down that deep I might get mistaken for Moby Dick.....

I think it's fair to say a fraction of the owners of those watches engage in such activities. I used to do alot of sailing and sea swimming but now my GSAR is in alot more pictures than it is boats.

 

[The-Stig]

I think it makes sense to wear an overbuilt watch. You may never dive to 200m, but you can have peace of mind that jumping in the pool won't ruin your watch. Another example, pretty much any car these days will drive in excess of 100mph, but it's rarely if ever needed. Why don't we all buy underpowered cars? Sure, they might get you from A to B, but you'll have a terrible time doing it.

Life is too short to buy flimsy crap.

 

[ron finkbeiner jr]

I think it makes sense to wear an overbuilt watch. You may never dive to 200m, but you can have peace of mind that jumping in the pool won't ruin your watch. Another example, pretty much any car these days will drive in excess of 100mph, but it's rarely if ever needed. Why don't we all buy underpowered cars? Sure, they might get you from A to B, but you'll have a terrible time doing it.

Life is too short to buy flimsy crap.

I wouldn't want to traumatize anyone at the pool with my fat, overall albino manatee appearance. I have more respect for the human populace than that.

 

[link2derek]

In that price range (and if I could find one), I'd replace the Debaufre Ocean-1 Classic that I stupidly sold:

 

[ron finkbeiner jr]

I love the JSAR, I even owned one for a short time that a fellow whom shall remain nameless let me pay in payments. But I ended up giving it back because I didn't want for his wife to give him grief. I had even bought a Nato issue watch strap. It just wasn't meant to be.

 

[plk7]

The problem with a hacking movement is that to synch the seconds hand with another time source (the sole purpose of hacking) you must interrupt the time keeping of the watch. Better is to have a seconds setting bezel which navigators used. Regardless the need to synch your seconds hand with a secondary time source is no longer necessary in today's world.

UK Air Ministry RAF Mk VII (Omega Weems) with second setting bezel. Synch the seconds using the bezel then lock the bezel, after which the hour and minutes are read from the watch's dial and the seconds are read from the bezel.

Interesting - thanks!

 

[ron finkbeiner jr]

I think it's fair to say a fraction of the owners of those watches engage in such activities. I used to do alot of sailing and sea swimming but now my GSAR is in alot more pictures than it is boats.

I am nothing but a trucker, but I loved the way the watch felt strapped on my wrist especially with Zulu four buckle strap.