Wrist Watch Recommendations - Merged Thread

[OldSolduer]

My Timex Ironman has finally cashed it in.

 

[ModlrMike]

Where can you get these on Vancouver Island?

My local Wally World has them on for $60 right now. You should have the same luck. In stock in Langford (Show this number 0075304836839 to an associate).

 

[Bassil_Inf]

I just bought a black G-Shock WR200M. Really good and cheap, only 119 at walmart.

 

[Bert]

I got a Casio Forrester watch about 10 years ago http://www.walmart.com/ip/Casio-Forester-Electro-Watch/10745988  http://www.ebay.com/bhp/mens-watches-casio-forester.  The benefits are its cheap, reliable, non-metallic case in situations where you forget to take it off while working with high voltage exposure, has worked well in the heat, wet, and cold.  Its been to the pole and the desert and back and keeps ticking.  Undoubtedly surpass me.  No magnet insert for chicks. 

 

[Mister Donut]

If you're concerned with looking 'cool' while in basic, your priorities are seriously screwed up. My $20 POS has served me well on several ships, teaching in Saint-Jean and two goes at CFFSE. You're not here to look pretty or cool; you're here to do the job.

Uhhh...I never said I was in basic.

 

[Jarnhamar]

I'm pretty sure a good part of basic is teaching people how to make things pretty.  Boots brass buttons floors uniforms 

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I don't wear a watch anymore ;D

 

[OldSolduer]

My Timex Ironman has finally cashed it in.

So I picked up a new Timex Expedition.

 

[kratz]

I don't wear a watch anymore ;D

I hear that too often from my new first responders.
They learn how quickly a basic, sturdy watch is required.

My current watch is a pulse monitor men's watch from Walmart for $80.
I've paid for three new watch batteries over the six years I've owned it.

 

[OldSolduer]

So I picked up a new Timex Expedition.

Then the sonuvabitch Ironman came back to life this morning.

I hid it and I'm retaining the new one.

 

[krustyrl]

Then the sonuvabitch Ironman came back to life this morning.

I hid it and I'm retaining the new one.

You have MY luck Jim.!! 

 

[ModlrMike]

I also bought the Expedition yesterday. My Ironman is still working, but the buttons are worn and hard to use. At least that's what I tell myself (and the wife).

 

[George Wallace]

I also bought the Expedition yesterday. My Ironman is still working, but the buttons are worn and hard to use. At least that's what I tell myself (and the wife).

That was my excuse last Spring.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I hear that too often from my new first responders.
They learn how quickly a basic, sturdy watch is required.

My current watch is a pulse monitor men's watch from Walmart for $80.
I've paid for three new watch batteries over the six years I've owned it.

Yeah, but I have no requirement, and refuse to give way to the dictates of a regimented lifestyle anymore.

You have to check my profile

 

[daftandbarmy]

Then the sonuvabitch Ironman came back to life this morning.

I hid it and I'm retaining the new one.

Those Ironmen are always feigning death just to get attention 

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Then the sonuvabitch Ironman came back to life this morning.

I hid it and I'm retaining the new one.

Not like Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction I hope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtHjV4c4uw

 

[MRees]

If any of you guys are looking for a cheap solid watch check out the Casio AQ-S810W, solar powered with something like 5 months reserve without sunlight, 60 time zones, ani/digi, great lume on the hands+ a digital backlight, and can take some severe abuse, comes in a couple of military themed colours  http://www.amazon.ca/Casio-AQ-S810W-1AV-Solar-Sport-Combination/dp/B00791R1MI

 

[OldSolduer]

Not like Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction I hope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtHjV4c4uw

no.......not that way.

 

[BYFROMSCHOOL]

Need watch advice for BMQ:

1. Do recruits rely on their watch's alarm function during basic?
2. At 5:00 wake up for instance, does a recruit need their own alarm?
3. Can a recruit use a different alarm such as their phone or alarm clock as opposed to their watch's?

Reason I ask is because my watch is very simple and I like it that way:
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B004KZ7W52

(Note: I didn't pay half that for mine)

Not that I wouldn't mind buying another cheap watch that goes beep-beep. I've just always used my phone to keep time, until I became a gentleman and started wearing a wrist watch.

 

[Dissident]

1) Yes, although more out of shear paranoia of missing a timing. There is supposed to be a fire picket awake at all times, so they are your alarms.
2) Nope, as above.
3) Depends: One basic I taught (week end BMQ) recruits kept their phones and could use them during off hours and some used them for alarms. One summer I instructed on a NavRes BMOQ and one Raven BMQ, both had to surrender/store away all electronics for the early stage of the course.