I wear a Polar watch every day, but I chose this watch mainly for tracking my heart rate and distance when I am running. I don't have the desire to own more than one watch so this one is it.

What may be of interest to some here is a watch that I recently saw. It is a Tissot T-touch, the dial is actually touch screen. It seems pretty cool,but I really don't know too much about these watches. It is a multi-function watch, with altimeter, barometer, compass (the watch hands transorm to the compass needle when in compass mode), etc.

I prefer automatic watches, that being said, I don't think I would go for a Rolex, my frugal ways won't allow me, instead I wear a Seiko 5 Sports.

I might splurge on a Tissot PRS for my birthday....well I will strongly hint to the wife as my birthday comes around the same time I should be getting a tax refund.

I've got one of these too and I really like it. It's simple, easy to use and dependable.

My recent favorite is my Timex Expedition Adventure Tech. It's light, comfortable to wear and easy to use. (I have one of the older analog, electronic compass expeditions and it's big and heavy.)

A possible liability a 'beeping' watch can be turned to your advantage.

Hidden and set to ring every fifteen minutes it can be both hard to find and quite distracting for anyone following you. The sound of the beep can be heard a long way away in the woods but the sound, one or two short chirps, can be very hard to localize. While the searchers spend time trying to track the sound down your over the hill and making tracks away from the area.

A similar strategy can be used to get people to look in the wrong direction at an ambush point. People are wired up and at the critical moment there is a beeping noise behind or among them. Everyone reflexively turns toward the noise trying to locate it. Turned the wrong way and looking at the dirt is not a good way to start an ambush if your intention is survival.

In some areas digital watches are used to set off explosives so in these areas the sound of a watch going off can cause people to reflexively assume a prone position. Which can be good in some cases. Like when a group of rough guys is crossing a road awash with sewage. If you can't have a good laugh while your out there what is the point?

A 7$ or 10$ watch can more than pay for itself if properly used for advantage.

My EDC watch is DOXA SUB600T Professional. It's an automatic, I set the time twice a year. Spring fwd, Fall back. And ya, Dirk Pitt wears one also.

I love my Breitling.



To me, it is super rugged and reliable. I also have a Rolex and a Tag Heuer, but the Breitling is worn every day and every where.

My client has an titanium Omega Sea Master and that is very nice also.

2 cheap Timex digitals with no bands and a Titanium cased analogue by Momentum.

I keep the Timex watches set to both Universal Coordinated Time and local standard time because they have the dual time feature.
This is helpful when dealing with radio communications and can be used in navigation if I had to.

The dial watch is set to local time.

Basic $20 Timex Indiglo from Target. I'm a nursing student and I need big numbers and a sweep second hand. Pulses, resp., etc.

My "Sunday go to meeting" watch is a really nice Swiss Army watch. At this point, I couldn't tell you what the model is if my life depended on it. The watch and I are currently in two different locations.

I like gadgets and I'm not very style-conscious. My watch is a Casio Sea Pathfinder 701. It is solar-powered, has compass, thermometer, barometer and depth gauge, several alarms, down-counter and stop-watch.

I'm not very happy with it, to be honest, but I'm not unhappy enough to justify spending money on something better. I think thermometers in watches are pointless because the reading is offset by body heat. The depth gauge is useless because I don't swim much and don't need to know how deep I am when I do, and it's not a replacement for a proper diver's gauge. You have to push a button to see the barometer, which in practice I don't do (my previous watch had a pressure graph permanently on display, which was more useful).

The compass is OK. I no longer feel the need to carry a button compass every day now.

I'm undecided about solar power. Obviously it still has a battery inside it, and that will have a finite lifetime, so it might be better in the long run to have a watch with batteries that are designed to be replaced.

I wear a Bulova that my wife gave me for a wedding gift. Haven't really worn any watch other than that for the last 3 years.

I am looking to find a nice watch to wear in the "wilds" tho.