Watches...your favorite go to and why, pic with gun or knife up to you.

Face and bezel are platinum, case and bracelet are Stainless Steel.
It's the most comfortable of all my watches to wear.
THAT one would be the one I'd buy if I didn't already have the SeaDweller. Always -preferred the Stainless over the gold. Unless I won the powerball of course, then it would be a big honkin' gold Submariner just to be a dick :D
 
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Of all the watches that I have, and I'm something of a watch geek, this very modest, inexpensive Casio is so reliable that it gets boring. Notice that it doesn't have a crown. That's because you never have to set it. When I ordered it, and it arrived, I opened the box, the hands flew around, and it has been with in one second of the correct time ever since.

It is solar powered, so you never have to replace the battery. The dial is a solar panel. It synchronizes with all of the atomic clocks around the world, and every night at midnight, here in the states, it resets itself to the signal from Colorado.

The buttons allow you to perform lots of functions, like have the digital readout show a second time zone, or use it as a stopwatch. But I just leave it on the day date, as shown. Of course it resets itself to daylight savings time, and you can have it show other time zones.

But mostly, you don't have to do anything but wear it. It is always correct.

Less than a hundred dollars, and absolutely reliable.

Pretty boring!!

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Best Regards, Les
 
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This one here for me. Isobright Armorlite.

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Wendy sticks to that large Casio G-Shock that has been around forever and is a favorite for those wanting a relatively inexpensive and easily replaced dependable watch. None of those small faced hard to see and read ladies' watches for her
 
My wife's Christmas gift to me, an Original Grain watch made from Koa.

Pardon the drift but Acacia koa is in the top 5 of my favorite acoustic guitar body woods. Spectacular multi-colored grain that explodes under lacquer. It's expensive as it only grows in Hawaii.

Nice watch.
 
Timex Expedition Indiglo.
Its too cheap, beat up, and ugly to post a picture of it.
But that's why I have the Timex instead of something nicer.
I seldom get more than 2-3 years out of one before it is in such bad shape it has to be replaced.
 
Well, this one survived a motorcycle crash at 112mph in 1985:D
And so did I*.:D

Still works well. But I don't wear it much because the design is a bit dated.

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I think that's a .38 S&W caliber. May be a .32. Not a .22, for sure.

On closer examination, it's not a Model 1. They do shoot 22 short black powder. My error. Nice gun (and pocket watch) none the less
 
I love watches. Consequently, I have a bunch. These are my two favorites:

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I swap back and forth between them. Unfortunately, the Luminox has had a problem, it will drop about 5 minutes every now and then. I've taken it in to a repair guy and he couldn't find anything wrong. If it does it again, it will go in the drawer with the rest of the "also ran" watches.


Years ago I was standing in a line at the hardware store. The guy in front of me commented on my watch and how he loved his too. Apparently he had mistaken my Benrus for a Rolex. When I told him that mine wasn't a Rolex, he suddenly didn't want to talk to me anymore. I love watches, but snobs bother me.
 
Here's my 'Get 'er Done' watch/knife combo.

A Casio analog Quartz with easy to read high contrast dial with big numbers, and no day/date function to mess with during short months or leap years. It's accurate enough to only need resetting when time zones or daylight savings time changes. The going Walmart price is $15 - $16 dollars. If a battery dies, a band breaks, or a mugger steals it... no sweat, I'll buy another one.

Most EDC knives I carry cost a lot more than my EDC Casio, but for this thread I wanted to picture a comparably priced knife of quality.

Pictured is a Buck Rival (2.75" blade) Model 364. I believe the street price on this Rival model is also $15 - $16. Buck sent it to me as a free warranty replacement for another inexpensive plastic handled Bucklite I carried for years, when I wore a Seiko Pro Diver watch. It is an excellent US manufactured knife and I would opt for it over a sub-$20 Chinese knife any day.

The combo is not all that expensive or impressive, but they work very well.
 

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My everyday watch is one my wife bought me a few years ago, a Bulova automatic. Nothing too fancy, she bought it to replace a Swiss Army my dad gave me that was stolen from her vehicle when she borrowed it and then forgot to lock the door.

She chose this one because she says I like to see the insides of everything I buy, this way I wouldn't tear it open to see how it works. She's not wrong...

And the shooter is a hacked down 4.5" 29-2.

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And I bought this Tag Monaco last month on an impulse. Been wanting this watch for a long time, finally dropped the hammer on it.

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I don't have nearly as many watches as guns, but it is a parallel interest. There are several that I want, some expensive, some not. One being a Submariner in stainless. Some day.
 
I've been looking for a Plain-Jane Submariner lately. Black dial, like Steve McQueen wore. Wow. I don't think I can afford one EVER. Might have to settle for a $80 Invicta Pro Diver and just squint when I look at it so I don't see the logo.

I want one for myself, but more importantly I wanted to buy one as a gift for an old friend of mine from high school. I broke his watch in Gr 11, need to make amends.
 
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