What Watch Are You Wearing Today?

Missoni said:
...I now prefer the humble Casio MQ-24-7 series, the biggest selling watch in Japan just outselling their other masterpiece, the F-91W, IIRC. The MQ-24-7 series is more accurate than the Swatch, is feather light and a 1/4 of the price at GBP £10 in the UK, oh and the battery lasts eons. I wear it over and above my automatic jewellery pieces.

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If but only it was a few mm larger and had day/date... :(

I do however have interest in this one by Citizen in their cheaper Q&Q line:

 
I have sold off the expensive watches that i had, taking advantage of the insane price rises in the luxury watch market, fuelled by the supply chain problems.

I might buy again in a few years when (if) supply and servicing become reliable again, but for now i feel very chilled about wearing watches i dont have to worry about.

Just dug out a beautiful Rotary quartz dress watch thats been in the watch box for over a decade and will service it - lovely and thin and simple.
 
I've been sorely tempted by the Nite Alpha range of tritium lume dive watches. All of a sudden they've gone up by about £60 since last time I looked. Probably more than it would be wise to spend at the moment but I think these are the nicest of all the tritium watches, including Luminox, Marathon, Traser H3 et al.

I wanted a PVD black case and black face but with the fatter GTLS hour markers. They used to do one but not any more it seems.

www.nitewatches.com

Black PVD ALPHA Watch - Z200ST100BLUE

Z200ST100BLUE ALPHA dive watch. Featuring a stainless steel case, ceramic bezel, T100 Tritium illumination, and a Swiss Made quartz movement from Ronda.
www.nitewatches.com www.nitewatches.com
 
hotmetal said:
I've been sorely tempted by the Nite Alpha range of tritium lume dive watches...
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Let me tell you something about tritium as in the USA it is as common as dirt on night sights for handguns. It's wonderful, BUT it fades over time and after between 5 to 10 yrs. it's about as bright as your average politician. The tubes can be replaced on handgun sights, but on a watch expect to pay Big Money to have that done. Hard pass. Just an FYI.

Timex Indiglo is still the one to beat for watches at night and is powered by the watch battery.
 
Bogeyman said:
Let me tell you something about tritium as in the USA it is as common as dirt on night sights for handguns. It's wonderful, BUT it fades over time and after between 5 to 10 yrs. it's about as bright as your average politician. The tubes can be replaced on handgun sights, but on a watch expect to pay Big Money to have that done. Hard pass. Just an FYI.

Timex Indiglo is still the one to beat for watches at night and is powered by the watch battery.
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Cheers for the heads up. Yes, it would be pretty annoying to spend half a k and 5 years later have next to no lume. To be fair we can get 100mCi over here so they start out 4x brighter than the T25 mandated by US. Obviously the half life is the same but starting from a brighter baseline. Even so, it's a good point.

Timex looks more in my price range haha! They've some reasonable looking field watches with Indiglo not unlike my Lorus lumibrite so I will probably pick one up, at 1/10 the price of the Alpha (not that they're comparable other than being readable at night).
 
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