Whats on your wrist?

[Airframes]

Charles, 'fifty quid' is £50 - Fifty Pounds Stirling. 'Quid' is British slang for a Pound (Stirling, not weight in avoirdupois.)

[ccheese]

Charles, 'fifty quid' is £50 - Fifty Pounds Stirling. 'Quid' is British slang for a Pound (Stirling, not weight in avoirdupois.)

Thank you, my good man. I'll stash this away in my memory banks for future reference.

Charles

[Maximowitz]

Max,

I've read a lot about Suunto watches and understand that many countries special forces wear them. I fear my Luminox will have to die before my wife lets me buy a Suunto. That looks very nice though.

Yes, I believe Suunto supply various special forces with their watches - I know the British SAS use them as I once spent an evening in the company of a few of those jolly lads in a pub not far from where they do their training. Being on the wrong side of 49 no one would have mistaken me for a member of that elite band!

I do a fair bit of trekking and hill walking though so the Suunto is an ideal companion on those journeys. Very robust, it weighs next to nothing - in fact the instruction manual weighs more than the watch! It is, I admit, not the most attractive looking timepiece, but I'm prepared to forego the aesthetic qualities for something that actually holds together.

There's certainly nothing wrong with Luminox, yet another great name in military/outdoor watches. Built like a Tiger I they could withstand virtually anything you could throw at them.

I don't know how much the price of the Suunto Core is in the USA, but I paid about £180 here in the UK - something like $280 at the present exchange rate. For once money well spent!

[Airframes]

Good bit of kit the Suunto, as are their compasses (similar to the Sylva compass).

[BombTaxi]

I have always been a big watch fan, and usually have had a very nice one on my wrist. Sadly, my work has a blanket ban on watches being worn on site, other than some crappy £1 plastic jobs that they sell to us, and I have simply gotten out of the habit of wearing one at all (I'd be the muppet walking with security having forgotten to take it off, otherwise). The ban is because we distribute a wide range of fashion watches. My girlfriend has just bought me a French Connection watch, fairly cheap but a nice looking piece of kit. I've yet to wear the thing

What I would like to put on my wrist, however, is one of these:

Watch Details for Red Arrows Skyhawk A-T | Citizen Eco-Drive

Saw one a few months back and have been deeply in love with it ever since...

[muller]

Those Red Arrows watches are cool! Of the 6 available, the one you posted BT is my favourite, and wouldn't you know, the most expensive!

[BombTaxi]

Always the way... as the price difference seems to be based entirely on a few bits of red paint, one would hope that the paint has been taken from a genuine Red Arrows Hawk...

[Trebor]

my cat's paw and head. he likes to lay on my lap with his chin and paw resting on my wrist. bless his little heart <3

[Deepdiver]

Hi copcheck, nice selection of watches there. I also have the Citizen Titanium Solar-Tech 180 (WR200) and just a note, it is actually an Eco Drive. It is printed on the back cover. I have had mine for 14 yrs now and still going strong.

[oldcrowcv63]

Hairs; I'm retired, so who needs to know the time?
Edgar

Exactly! There is nothing on my wrist but hair. My cell phone gives me the time on the rare occasions I need to look.

[A4K]

Echo that! Nothing but skin, hair, and scars on my wrist, souvenirs on snorkelling round aussie coral.

[woljags]

after what feels like a lifetime of deadlines i don't wear a watch, nowadays i plan what i'm going to do during the day but if i don't there's always tomorrow[hopefully]