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Benevolens Magister
That's my kind of clock Mike !
Whats on your wrist?
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RabidAlien
1st Lieutenant
Heh. My grandfather's got a clock similar to that, Mike, but instead of days of the week, it has 7 different golf courses.
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
I have a Rolex "Oyster perpetual date" that I bought in Dubrovnik, Yugo. in 1967. I only paid $125.00 (us) for it, and it's not a counterfeit because it's been serviced by Rolex twice. I still have the wooden box that it came in, and all the paperwork. It's my most prized possession....
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ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
And.... 50 quid is how much ?
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Lighthunmust
Banned
A few years ago, after decades of use, I gave up on automatic chronometers. Their expensive maintenance requirements are not worth the annoying 2 minute a month loss/gain range. I started to wear less expensive quartz watches but after several going belly up with busted faces and bands. I decided to invest in a tough thermo-compensated HEQ. I now wear a Breitling Colt. It is accurate to 1 second a month, goes 8 years on a battery, maintenance costs are low, and is about as tough and dependable as a wrist watch can be made. It is also good looking. So far it has been a good investment. Automatic chronometers may be beautiful marvels of mechanical engineering but HEQs are in my opinion just as beautiful and have the benefit of electronic accuracy.
DBII
Senior Master Sergeant
I stopped wearing a watch years ago. The pocket watch is nice. I do have a grandfather clock. I picked it up while stationed in Europe.
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Lighthunmust
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Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Charles, 'fifty quid' is £50 - Fifty Pounds Stirling. 'Quid' is British slang for a Pound (Stirling, not weight in avoirdupois.)
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
Thank you, my good man. I'll stash this away in my memory banks for future reference.
Charles
Maximowitz
Tech Sergeant
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
Benevolens Magister
Good bit of kit the Suunto, as are their compasses (similar to the Sylva compass).
BombTaxi
Tech Sergeant
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...
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...
BombTaxi
Tech Sergeant
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... 
oldcrowcv63
Tech Sergeant
Exactly! There is nothing on my wrist but hair. My cell phone gives me the time on the rare occasions I need to look.
