Thanks to all for your recommendations. I have an 1960s era Omega Speedmaster and the 10 year old Seiko Sports 100 that I mentioned earlier. I usually alternate between these watches for everyday wear, but they have aquired some sentimental value and I don't take them into the woods for backpacking and rock climbing. I've got a really cheap digital Timex Expediton that is always screwing up, and which I cannot get the day (not date) set correctly. It drives me crazy.

Anyway, like I said, I am looking for something that I can wear everyday and not take off for the outdoors. Furthermore, as I am always trying to streamline my EDC, I wanted to have a compass on the watch to free up some space in my altoids kit. I keep a base plate compass on my BK7 in the attached pouch in my trck which would be my "go to" compass, but redundancy in this area is important to me.

I have decided on an analog field watch with date and maybe alarm (a hard feature to find) with a clip on button compass. The wrist top computers are great and all, but I feel that failure is a real possibilty with them due to either the lack of ruggedness, or batteries.

The finalist are:

Timex 41031 Simple watch, can replace the leather strap with webbing.

Timex 48221 Good basic watch. I like the webbing strap.


St. Moritz Pathfinder More money, but has alarm and is made of titanium. How can you go wrong with titanium? <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />