looking for a new watch.. thoughts?

Had one for a while when I was doing a lot of Alpine style mountain/ice climbing.

 

Saved my ass once from going off route and spending a nasty night above the tree line in British Colombia. Other than that it was just an expensive watch that I couldn't wear with a suit...

 

Nowadays I find a G-Shock and my iPhone more useful and practical.

I have both the xlander and vector as well as ABC watches from casio, tissot and hamilton. I find the xlander much more comfortable to wear than the vector or g shock. The g shock is solar and never needs a battery and definately the toughest, while all the others need battery changes about every two years. The tissot t-touch (or hamilton which is discontinued) can be worn with just about anything from suits to jeans depending on which model. And look the least like an outdoor adventuring watch but still function awesome. Comfort and style are very subjective. I personally wear the xlander the most followed by the tissot.

I'm a bit of a watch nut... Not the typical though that buys stuff you heard of. Other than my Luminox watches which are great, I got tired of changing batteries. You have to have a jeweler that can pressurize watches these days or send them back for battery changes and cleaning which means being without your watch and paying more than you need to. I had a 5.11 Tactical Ballistic Calc watch that atre batteries every 6 months. Was cool, looked cool, little big and did it's calcs fine. But the battery crap cost me 2 weeks and 36-40 bux to get them changed. So I decided no more and to go conventional that was self service and had a good rep...

 

I have this one and bought it when it was their $600 line of watches. I have had it a couple years now and it is flawless. Looks great, does everything from atomic to temp to chrono to sleep mode and more.. and works when you have to get dressed up. No more batteries, winding or anything. They now have the latest which is the 1100 line.. http://www.amazon.com/G-Shock-GWA-1100-1A3-G-Aviation-Series-Stylish/dp/B00DY1RT7Y

I'd recommend it over and over...

Here is a link to Amazon which has them for around $300 now...

http://www.amazon.com/Casio-GWA1000-1A-G-Aviation-G-Shock-Watch/dp/B0093SLCOI/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411126976&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Casio+G-Shock+GWA1000D-1A+G-Aviation+Multi+Band+Atomic+Timekeeping+Solar

 

 

You can also see it here on my end table...

I've switched over to the Android Wear watches

 

Got a LG G watch on my wrist right now.

G-Shock FTW. I dont see the point in spending $300(or more) on a watch that offers similar or the same functions as a $100-$200 watch. As mentioned above, almost all of my g-shock watches can be worn almost anywhere. They can be abused and if need be rinsed off, wiped down, and worn with dressier attire. I'd probably wear mine in a tux if i had to wear a tux

Here's my everyday watch. Gives me time, tide, moon phase and is solar powered/charged. Had it 3 yrs and don't care if it gets beat up. It's missing all four of the bezel screws (purely cosmetic). If I want to wear a nice watch I break out one of my Citizens.

read numerous reviews about the Suunto bezel getting scratched up.. so I think I may be back to just going with a Gshock..

 

thanks for the feedback..

Had one for a while when I was doing a lot of Alpine style mountain/ice climbing.

 

Did you put your finger in a dike on the way home?

Twice

Did you put your finger in a dike on the way home?

My wife is Dutch.... I told her if she went lesbo, she'd be putting her finger in dikes all the time. She slapped me! Lol...

PS: Suuntos are butt effing ugly!

My wife is Dutch.... I told her if she went lesbo, she'd be putting her finger in dikes all the time. She slapped me! Lol...

Sassy