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A good friend and fellow watch collector recently told me
that he wears a Sunto more than anything else these days.
The closest I’ve gotten to a “smart” watch is a G-Shock. It’s the JDM version of the original square, and I love it. But since I moved a few months ago, it hasn’t been able to sink (“RECEIVE”) and auto-update the time, so it’s been sitting on my coffee table.
At the risk of meandering off topic, I’ve recently found myself rethinking what I really like, in terms of watches and other “stuff”. While I don’t have an especially large or super-valuable collection, I feel like there are a few watches in my watch roll and here-and-there which should find new homes, some for aesthetic reasons and some because I now live in a sub-tropical climate. So, I will likely gift my Reverso to my mom and my SLA017 to my dad, once the latter gets serviced (Dad really likes the Seiko, and I think the Reverso suits Mom perfectly). Don’t get me wrong, I like both of those watches, but I think I’d rather see them on someone else’s wrists, and whose better than my folks’?
As for most of the rest? I guess I’ll trade or sell them off in an effort to realign and perhaps restart my small collection. I’ve been thinking of the process as a distillation down to… something.
I recently missed out on a nice ‘60’s era Canadian Air Force issued Breitling chronograph like Nico posted recently. I’m on “the list” for an Aquanaut (LOLOLOLOL), and I’ve considered getting a new Pepsi or white dialed Explorer II. But boy a really nice 1016 or even an interesting vintage Datejust would be cool too… or maybe an older Calatrava, or one of the “dirty dozen”, or an IWC/Porsche Design Ocean diver..? Clearly, I have some thinking to do, even though this is supposed to be fun, and therefore not over thought.
So, full circle: While I don’t see a Sunto or smart watch in my future (BTW I’m keeping the G-Shock), I’ve been wearing one watch almost exclusively as of late. I guess at the end of the day I’m a pretty simple guy who misses more analog times.
Cheers all, and enjoy your Garmin!
Guilty. My most worn watch of 2023 has a battery.
We don’t often share these type of watches here, but I know many members have one in one form or another. For 2023, despite it being a pretty rough year from a sports / fitness perspective with a couple of really long layoffs which required zero activity ...
Nico, you’ve always struck me as a bit of rebel so that’s not surprising ! 😂
There are definitely certain hobbies / sports interests which necessitate one of these watches. So that will likely account for many of us owning and using one of these. But the Apple Watch is not that generally. Now while I do double wrist when exercisin...
Yeah…
When I was fighting heart rate was very important. I used a chest strap direct to either a smartphone or treadmill so a wrist device wasn’t as important but I did have an old school Suunto for a while now just a resting HR matters which I can do with any ...
Blasphemy! Treason!
😂😂 JK Call me a traditionalist, but I don’t own a Garmin or Apple Watch. I guess I’d rather have a mechanical timepiece on my wrist. Closest thing I suppose is my G Shock mudman, which I haven’t worn in years
Almost without exception I’m mechanical every day.
The Garmin and the Apple Watch are for specific purposes, which means I do wear them every day but only for specific periods of time. At this stage walking out of the house without a mechanical watch feels like I’m naked.
Oh dear.....
All my watches are dumber than a box of rocks. I do have a few G-Shocks but that just for show when I'm out drinking with a bunch of Navy Seals.
I bought one on the summer 2022. To say the truth
I’ve almost not worn it, except when I go riding my bike with my son. In this case I find it amusing: ...
But I think that’s the purpose, at least for me anyway.
It’s a tool for a particular purpose, in your case riding a bike.
Yes. For a person that it’s really into sports I think
it’s a very useful device. I bought it in a whim but I don’t regret. When I use it I enjoy it.
I never owned a smart watch.
I’m pretty glued to my phone reading something all the time and frankly sometimes it’s too much, I don’t think I can endure another instantly reachable set of huge data on my wrist to control if I did walk that day, slept well, what’s my heart rate, blood...
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I don’t use them for that scope of data. The data from small windows like a workout are what I use, but not constant monitoring throughout the day. For the Apple Watch is a longer period of time, but it’s just sleep.
Got it thanks
I’ll check, maybe a garmin then Jay? Because I do go a lot to the gym and frankly I need a watch there, mostly to keep time between sets, but maybe it would be cool to have some additional info
I do like these too.
And I do own some G-Shocks, the most worn of which is a metal G. But very infrequently and often on days where I’ll also end up wearing a mechanical watch at a different point.
A good friend and fellow watch collector recently told me
that he wears a Sunto more than anything else these days. The closest I’ve gotten to a “smart” watch is a G-Shock. It’s the JDM version of the original square, and I love it. But since I moved a few months ago, it hasn’t been able to sink (“RECEIVE”) and ...
The Mom and Dad gifting sounds like a great idea.
I think we all circle through the thoughts of slimming down, focusing or simplifying things. If you can do it go for it. I’ve done it with some things but not yet with watches, even though I continually think about doing so. I just commented on another po...
Thank you for your kind comments and I hope I didn’t get your thread on an unrelated tangent.
This consolidation, simplification, and distillation is something I’ve been thinking about for a few months. Yes, keeping an Explorer is kind of a given, no? Not haute horologie but it does what I need with a bit of je ne sais quois… non? Merci! The Explo...
I wear a watch with battery
Not at this moment, while i wear a watch that have the word Baumatic on the dial. I own no Garmin, Apple watch, or any of these kind of devices. Simply, i am inactive as a lazy guy. Sports scare me off, except scuba diving. I have no need to measure my he...
I agree with the double writing, mechanical plus smartwatch on opposite wrists I’ve never gotten comfortable with.
However, I do frequently wear the Garmin and the Apple Watch together (opposite wrists). It’s practical, both do different things.
I have a couple of quartz watches dying a very slow death somewhere..
Even in “rough” activities, I have always worn a mechanical watch. This one from 2011 wearing my SMP300 on a NATO. I just posed with the bike, btw, but that’s all my gear and my designated ride. We all had drivers. Treacherous, bumpy, muddy route. Just to...
Very cool.
In these types of scenarios I too would be choosing mechanical, and most likely Seiko. What was this trip?
My quartz is lucky
Together with some of my automatics. Sure, my quartz do not need spinning around on my watch winder. Nice motorcycle, is it a Honda? ...
Such a shame
There’s so much about a mechanical watch that can delight. It seems a shame to waste wrist space on something that generates little joy and amazement
I think you misread the post.
I wear a mechanical watch every day, but I wear these two specific quartz watches every day. They are tools in the truest sense of a tool watch, measuring very specific things and providing very specific feedback. For some balance, here’s one of those mec...
I don't own one of these yet!
There was one WatchProSite member who said that he was going to give me his Apple Watch after he upgraded - and he was going to give me his used one-year-old version - and ask that I try it out. Either he forgot about it or he hasn't upgraded yet. Althoug...