Watches

[willy88]

Just curious what watches Orbinauts have. I have a Casio DB-37H.

 

[Whatu]

I had a watch many years ago. I lost it, and since then I dont use watches anymore.
Now I use to read time in my mobile phone.

 

[Ursus]

Aw, c'mon... are we just making polls just for the sake of making polls?

Then again... I used to have a nice LCD analog watch that I liked...

 

[dutchpirate]

I work in Aviation, and we use UTC (Greenwich Mean Time, Zulu Time, etc) for everything so my LCD is set to UTC, and the analog is on "People Time"

 

[willy88]

Aw, c'mon... are we just making polls just for the sake of making polls?

There needs to be a poll for everything. EVERYTHING.

 

[dbeachy1]

Citizen Titanium here.

Remember, "Friends don't let friends buy digital watches."

There needs to be a poll for everything. EVERYTHING.

What we really need is a poll asking, "Are there too many polls on the forum?"

 

[Andy44]

Digital watches are so 1970s!

Actually, I have several watches.

Citizen Eco-Drive 2100 pilot's watch with tachymeter, 200m water-resistant. (my current favorite)

Casio G-Shock digital. I bought this in the early 90s when the G-shock line was new. It's el cheapo and ugly like most Casios, but it's 200m water-resistant, you can use the buttons under water, and the thing is nearly indestructable. I used it for scuba-diving, but the heavy use has taken it's toll on the plastic casing. I now place it on my bike's handlebars or on my hiking pack.

Several older wind-up watches, including a Timex I got when I was very young. I may give it to my relatives someday for their kids. Also, I have 2 mechanical wind-up pocketwatches and a few quartz pocketwatches.

My dad has an Omega Speedmaster, the original version, the same model NASA used for the Apollo missions. If you want to see one, watch Apollo 13 and when they do the manual burn, Kevin Bacon is using a Speedmaster to time it. Also, in the below photo, Buzz Aldrin is wearing a speedmaster on the outside of his suit in hard vacuum. My dad got his in the mid-60's right after it became known that Gemini astronauts were using them, and he paid like $25 for it. Omega still makes this model; it's called the Speedmaster Professional and it runs a few thousand bucks! It's a simple old fashioned wind-up pilot's watch, but it was the only one that survived all of NASA's torture tests, beating the Breitling and the Rolex and all the others. I told my dad he has the ultimate Guy Watch.

http://www.lesmala.net/jean-michel/speedmaster/nasastory.htm

 

[tblaxland]

I have an analogue watch but I don't quite know why I persist in having one. As I sit here I have the following other time-telling devices in my immediate presence:

- PC (two clocks, one analogue & one digital)
- desktop clocks (two, one analogue & one digital, both presents)
- wall clock (the official company clock, analogue)
- desk phone
- mobile phone
- PDA

Plus a clock in the car and seven other clocks at home (that I can think of). That's 17 clocks all up - daylight savings is a royal pain!

 

[Andy44]

I could certainly live without a wrist watch with all the gadgets around, but nothing is quicker than just looking at your wrist. No phones to pull out of your pocket, no moving the mouse cursor to the Windows toolbar, and the watch is always with you when you are someplace with no clock on the wall.

Plus, it's an age thing to some extent. If you are my age or more you were raised before anyone had a cell phone and very few people had PCs, so you wear a watch as a matter of habit. Younger people are more dependent on cell phones. Even I often just use my phone on hot summer days when I don't want to wear a big chunk of stainless steel on my arm.

 

[simonpro]

I have a Breitling Navitimer 50th edition and a Breitling Montbrilliant 1903. Only wear the latter for formal stuff though, it's a little too sensitive to wear day to day.
Both are superb watches though, the navitimer has been through almost everything imaginable and still works perfectly.

 

[doggie015]

I have a billabong Ana-digital, waterproof to 100m, two timezones and four alarms

 

[tomek]

I have my grandfather's Ракета (Russian for "Rocket"). Mechanical analog, with built-in mechanical analog calendar :hotcool:

 

[tblaxland]

Plus, it's an age thing to some extent. If you are my age or more you were raised before anyone had a cell phone and very few people had PCs, so you wear a watch as a matter of habit. Younger people are more dependent on cell phones. Even I often just use my phone on hot summer days when I don't want to wear a big chunk of stainless steel on my arm.

Yeah, its more of a habit thing for me. I didn't get a mobile phone until I was in my late twenties. Also, my current watch (a Citizen quartz analogue dress watch) I got for my twenty-first birthday from my now wife so it has some sentimental value.

Re analogue vs digital, I prefer analogue because I find it gives me a better subjective "feel" for the time, as well as an objective readout.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

I have an analog watch with a small build-in DCF77 receiver, so it sets itself to the correct time and it always is very accurate (nice for ISS sightseeing timing ).

I'm not really a fan of this new fashion of wearing almost church-clock sized watches, so I keep them small..

regards

 

[Urwumpe]

I don't wear no watches. They don't survive being close to my skin, i am wrapped in a destructive field. Maybe a titanium watch could survive this ordeal, but the cheaper metal stuff had many new edges and scratches in a few months. The record was one year before the wrist band broke.

 

[tomek]

You ain't wrapped in no destructive field, you just gotta stop chasing that stupid ostrich

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Casio Waveceptor atmoic-receiving watch. Already on band #3 and survived my entire high school career!

 

[willy88]

Just recently bought a Timex Expedition. I'm not sure what the exact model is, but it's analog, and has an alarm, date and Indiglo.

 

[astrosammy]

I have a Casio G-Shock (don't now the exact name) It's 200m water resistant.

 

[golden_eye]

I have some sort of Seiko that I got from my parents years ago. It's worked flawlessly and aside from a couple minor scratches is in decent shape. No batteries FTW!