Wilderness Watch

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Deerhunter2010

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To go along with my New RC 3 Mil I am looking into a good survival/wilderness watch, any suggestions or pics would be great. I kinda like the Luminox brand what do you fine people think?

Does Rat Cutlery have a watch out as of yet or any plans to do so?
 
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i use a g-shock mudman, the red negative display is a little hard to read when its dark,but the watch has taken a beating and still performs admirably.
 
I have worn Luminox and Casio G-Shocks for years and I don't think you can go wrong with either one of them. I am currently plodding along with a Casio G-Shock Atomic-Solar.
 
For me, there is no good reason to own a watch that needs to have a battery replaced anymore. Seiko makes good, affordable, and very tough automatics. Casio G-Shocks are available with solar power and they are excellent. Numerous other makers make watches that do not require batteries. For that reason, I wouldn't consider the Luminox watches, though, the one that I used to own was quite nice.

For the price it is hard to beat a G-Shock.
 
I have been wearing a Suunto Vector for about 4 years now year-round and during wildland firefighting season each year and it has held up. Just had to replace the battery once.

I use it primarily for the altimeter function. It is extremely useful when using a topo map and compass to navigate as it helps give one more piece of info to find your location on a map. It does not replace good land navigation and map reading but it is a simple tool that makes it a lot more accurate and fool proof in my opinion.

As long as you keep it calibrated (ie adjust the elevation reading when at a known elevation) I have found it is accurate to about 5 meters.

I don't really use the compass function as it is not nearly as accurate as a simple handheld compass and hard to sight bearings with.

I think that Casio has a G-shock version with an altimeter in as well.
 
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I have a Suunto Observer. I quite like it. Not as big as some wrist computers and looks great. I use primarily the barometer function, but the altimeter is handy too.

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+1000 for G-shock toughest and most reliable watches made, they are massivly overbuilt the busses of the watch world.
 
Well I moderate a Suunto collecting site, so I kind of have to vote Suunto.

I have 2 Vectors, observer, X9, Core, X Lander, Yachtsman, and a T3. All of them are awesome... From Classic ABC (altimeter, barometer, compass) watch to super high tech..
 
I like to keep it simple. My Timex watch has been exposed to all kind of chemicals at work and due to a old faulty band fell a number of times over 8 feet onto concrete. It is about 10 years old and beat to hell but still works fine. IMHO a good way to spend $25
 
timex expedition. on the second one, this ones been at it for 3 years now.
guess i'll need a battery pretty soon. no fancy stuff, but i beat the shit
out of it at work every day.
 
I should add. I have about 2 dozen G Shocks... If you want a TOUGH watch... get a G Shock. Probably the toughest watches made. Check out the Riseman, Mudman, and Gulfman for some of the "nicer" ones with more features. The 6900 and 5600 are classics, simple and inexpensive.
 
I'm sorry, but seriously? A watch?
I haven't worn one in easily 10 years...
Your "survival/wilderness watch" is called the Sun.
What more do you need?

Save your money and buy an Izula.
 
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I've beat the crap out of a timex expedition (not purposely abused but it's seen some hard wear) and it's still ticking and looking good, it's got indiglo and lights up quite nicely at the press of the button. It was passed onto me from my father who was an avid hiker, and when I first got it I thought the band was brown with gold spec, turns out when I went to wash my hands one day I got some water on it and noticed a little dirt come off, so I washed it off at to my amazement the band was royal blue and gold, but it had so much mud on it I could tell. I have wore it to multiple paintball tournaments and games, which involves a lot of running, crawling and occasionally sliding in the woods or wherever I'm playing. So for $25 I'd recommend it.
 
I buy simple digital watches from walmart, beat it to hell after a while, then buy another one.
 
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