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Who's got a nice watch? Traditional watches only, no smartwatches please.
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Nicer not having a watch
I wanted a nice watch and got a Citizen the first time I passed through Singapore over 30 years ago. Elegant, analogue and digital display, various useful functions, waterproof to 100 metres.
Just out of warranty, never having encountered more than the odd splash, I discovered that it kept water in, not out. I spent a lot of money getting it fixed, only to have the same problem. When I got back home I gave it to a friend, who liked the look of it. He got it fixed and had the same problem. At my suggestion he threw it into some river, where it belongs.
I had various other watches, both before and after. I think I may still have a mechanical pocket watch, but I don't know where right now. It will surely be in need of a clean.Most, however, got broken or lost.
I have not worn or carried a watch for a couple of decades now, and seldom carry a mobile phone, smart or not. Still, people know me as usually quite punctual. There are plenty of indicators of the time of day that dispense with the need to carry a timepiece.
I wanted a nice watch and got a Citizen the first time I passed through Singapore over 30 years ago. Elegant, analogue and digital display, various useful functions, waterproof to 100 metres.
Just out of warranty, never having encountered more than the odd splash, I discovered that it kept water in, not out. I spent a lot of money getting it fixed, only to have the same problem. When I got back home I gave it to a friend, who liked the look of it. He got it fixed and had the same problem. At my suggestion he threw it into some river, where it belongs.
I had various other watches, both before and after. I think I may still have a mechanical pocket watch, but I don't know where right now. It will surely be in need of a clean.Most, however, got broken or lost.
I have not worn or carried a watch for a couple of decades now, and seldom carry a mobile phone, smart or not. Still, people know me as usually quite punctual. There are plenty of indicators of the time of day that dispense with the need to carry a timepiece.
I saw an article that talked about the toughness of Casio G-Shocks and how the SEALs wore them over the official navy SEAL watch which cost a lot more money but didn't hold up well in the outdoors in different conditions.
It was CNN oddly and not FOX as I would suspect because I think IIRC it talked about government spending and how certain things which work, like the G Shocks for SEALS, can be a model for how we run government in general.
Like use a $100 to $200 Casio and get the job done and perfectly than some European dive watch that breaks down but looks really spiffy. I think we can do a lot in our government to learn from getting a job done and done well on the cheap but that's for the PRSI section of macrumors.
But that being said I had my eye on an old Omega "dive watch" which couldn't realistically be immersed in water. But it did look, well "spiffy" and I GASSED over that one for a long, long time. It had some water resistance and looked sporty but make no mistake this thing would outfit a nice Armani suit! 1960s or early 70s I think, green, and hmm...I want to go back to Fourtane's (local shop here) and see if it's still there.
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I can't find article but the look of the 6600 seems to be the one. There are quite a lot of SEAL guys wearing that one. Because of its image with special operations guys I thought my G-Shock would last me doing gardening, landscaping, and cement work and I could wash my hands with it on and not worry.
I damaged that higher end G-Shock and had to have it repaired so I learned to treat all watches as ones that should always be dried off and never trust any ads or reviews of brand spanking new watches because once it's day to day and there's water in the mix, it's only a matter of time before you damage something. Water is the strongest force in the universe and when nobody is watching and you are doing something mundane, that's when the toughest of watches tend to fail. You could go on some dive that's long and deep and be OK but two years later when you were out there doing a sod project, you damage your watch.
It was best said when the Omega guy at Macy's told me that you don't even wash your hands with a Swiss 300M watch. Think about it! It's not smart to test the seal of the watch when it's $1,300 dollars. He simply said to take it off before you wash your hands and treat it like its a treasure. After hurting a nearly indestructible $200 dollar G-Shock with simple chores, I agree with the Omega dude.
I don't care what people think of the toughness of any said watch because it's me and my wallet headed to the expensive Rolex certified repair guy, only one in town FWIW, to get all the seals fixed and parts dried out properly.
Anyway, I wish I read this before "testing" the indestructible G-Shock and waterproofing a watch 100% percent is about as accurate to say you can't get pregnant standing up (though you may have fun):
http://www.esslinger.com/howtowaterproofawatch.aspx
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If you have a dive watch that's sold as being water resistant to 200, 300, or whatever meters, I would just take it on faith that it's going to survive being on your hands when you wash them. I have no problems wearing my OMEGA Seamaster Pro 300m into the shower and that's how I often end up cleaning my bracelet'ed watches. I definitely wear my G-Shock(s) in the shower after a range session. Too much dust at the range and GSR after shooting.
You should be able to find at least one watch repair person in your area that can do a pressure test on your watch(es) so you know that they are still water resistant.
I don't think there's any 'official' Navy Seal watch in so far that they don't issue any specific watch to team members. The last 'Seal' watch I heard of is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Automatic Diving Navy SEALs edition - http://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/US/en/watches/master-compressor-diving-automatic-navy-seals/2018470 which was originally released at a MSRP of $8800 USD. JLC simply got permission to work with NSW (Navel Special Warfare) to produce this watch with the SEAL Trident on the case back.
I've shot at Camp Pendleton with people associated with NSW and I don't recall seeing any standard watch.
I will let others take nice watches into showers. But for me I leave all watches away from water regardless of cost. If there's no such thing as waterproof and it's illegal to say so, then I am fine with taking the few extra seconds to remove a watch but that's just me.
My G-shock withstood amazing things but eventually one or more seals wore out. I put it through a lot so it's not my thing to let other watches go through that, certainly more expensive stuff than that $200 watch or watches rated at less depth.
Indeed, but that's why watches are rated for water 'resistance', not water proofing. But your paranoia regarding a watch not being able to handle basic washing is a bit extreme. People actually do dive with their dive watches. I know quite a few recreational divers who wear No-Date Submariners while diving.
But if you are never going to allow your watches to get wet, you better not take your watch to get cleaned by a watch boutique, much less a service center, because they actually steam clean watches. The Rolex and OMEGA Boutique will offer this in-store if you happen to go inside their boutique wearing one of their watches.
Most people are OK but I am the ultimate klutz with bad luck.
The worst case was when I wet a cell while watering the yard and it was in pants pocket but I still managed to mess it up. So I went to Verizon and got a new one. As I was setting it up I dropped the sucker in the toilet and it was a few hours old! I have been OK with computers since I fix them for a living but cells and watches are not my friend.
Most people are OK but I am the ultimate klutz with bad luck.
The worst case was when I wet a cell while watering the yard and it was in pants pocket but I still managed to mess it up. So I went to Verizon and got a new one. As I was setting it up I dropped the sucker in the toilet and it was a few hours old! I have been OK with computers since I fix them for a living but cells and watches are not my friend.
LOL. I knew a guy who dropped an alpha numeric Motorola pager (yeah, this was mid-90s) in a public toilet and he fished it out. I was all, "WTF? I'm not shaking your hand, ever again."
I was so pissed off from my stupidity and the salesboy (he looked 15) said I must know nothing about electronics. Hey I deserved that. Actually I took my first PhD class in computer engineering at University of California that week or recently enough, too and I told him I could fix it because I was going to be a PhD. "Yeah right!" I thought to myself since all those years of school I already had as prereqs had nothing to do with fixing a wet cellphone and no classes from there were going to help either. I would design routers along with a gazillion other techies and probably never see any finished product.
I took the original phone which I got wet and put the parts into rice. It kind of worked but a few days later it was perfect. So when I saw the salesboy again I said I fixed it because I knew about electronics! He was shocked but what I didn't tell him was that all the electronic engineers in San Jose would never be able to fix a fried phone if it was indeed dead.
This toilet meets phone incident pretty much, along with G-Shock I somehow wet with water washing around inside face, pretty much made me deserve to be paranoid about such things. Luckily for the electronics field I decided to stay with blue collar type work.
There are 'mens' Michael Kors watches. Plus, a lot of them are 40mm+, so they're definitely sized for men. But the watch in question looks like it could be a men's watch, or at the very least unisex.
Not my cup of tea but I guess KORS is a good stock the way they are selling their products
Yes, it is a girl's watch but I am of the distaff side, so no worries
As a side note, these watches are colloquially referred to as "boyfriend" watches because of size, and weight, etc. My Movado watches are significantly smaller/lighter than this MK.
