Casio G Shock Mudman. Damn near indistructable. Love it.

I wear a Sinn watch U1 made of submarine stainless steel casing and 1000m rated. Alternatively one tough watch I use is the Citizen Ecodrive in Titanium with date and Perpetual Calendar, similar to the one Ray Mears wore in some of his shows...

when i was working i had a 24 hour watch..a real one,the hour hand went around the face once in 24 hours and not the kind where 4 was also marked 1600..all the paper work we did,and there was a constant stream of it,was marked in 24 hour time..for canoe tripping i have a cheap military repo that i hang off a shirt button hole because i don't like stuff on my wrist and i keep a second watch without a band in a waterproof case along with back-up glasses in my pack.

Been wearing a tritium illuminated watch for a few years, I never realized how nice that is until I had one. I have a Luminox version, like this, but, with a metal snap strap:



The model is Luminox 3401, it has a stainless case, instead of the composite on some of their watches. I opted for the stainless metal strap with the scuba expander, that can fit over a wetsuit, nice. Very reliable, never changed the time for anything but daylight saving twice a year.

I am really hard on watches and have laid waste to a good number of them in the past. I tried a Casio G-Shock many years ago and have been hooked ever since. I have brutalized three Casio G-shocks in that time and they have all performed well under a variety of extremes. The bad part is that they went to factory battery replacement for most models. But...

My EDC right now (since DEC) is a Casio Riseman G-Shock (solar).



No power supply issues and it has taken a real beating thus far.

My watch is just a cheap analog quartz watch from Walmart..
I used to have a timex basic analog watch but it disappeared when i moved... though am considering a timex for my next watch..

Casio PAW1300T-7V: http://www.amazon.com/Casio-Pathfinder-M...=cm_cr-mr-title


Absolutely tough as nails G-Shock watch in Titanium. I've been wearing as EDC for close to 2 years now. It's a bit thick, but still far thinner than the previous version.

Has about anything you could ask for:
Digital Compass
Solar Powered
Electroluminescent Lighting
Barometer
Thermometer
Altimeter
100m Water Resist
Naval Atomic Clock

I love this watch. About my only complaint, and it's a minor one, is that the face could be larger, but the solar cell takes up a healthy chunk of the glass space. I do everything with and to this watch that you can imagine. It's picked up a few scratches (mostly from banging against rock or tools), but remains perfectly functional. I have a drawer full of watches and I almost never wear anything else unless it's to something dressy.

I use the compass and altimeter all the time, and the barometric tracking is nice... I've been mowing the yard and noticed the weather was going to turn bad long before it did because of the graph. Slick. The only improvement I could ask for (aside from a more efficient, and thus smaller, solar cell) would be glow-in-the-dark hands somewhere so I could see the time at a glance in the dark without need to activate the light. There is an auto-light activation, but sometimes you don't want that going off either.

They even have a diving model that's similar if you are into that. I'd say this is an absolutely ideal survival watch with the exception of perhaps an EMP! ;-) It's the most complete watch I've ever found and FAR FAR cheaper than alternatives from Suunto, etc.

Luminox Titanium, metal bracelet for dressing up. Maratec 4 ring strap for work and play. Haven't managed to scratch the crystal yet, in 8 years of daily use in a warehouse environment.