doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Slightly OT: Wristwatches and doubles?

As usual, Stanton makes a very good point here. Around certain types of equipment, watches and rings are just not good policy (when I was a much younger man working on drilling rigs in the oilfields of Pennsylvania, I wore neither).

Also, because of the ubiquitous nature of cell phones anymore, most younger folks now do not wear watches . I am clearly a creature of habit (sigh!) and I don't feel fully dressed unless I have a watch on. I like to be able to just glance at my wrist to confirm the time. With my phone I must turn it on first...too slow and inconvenient for me for me (and...my eyes just don't work that well anymore, but I can see watch hands just fine).

Like Eeb here, I like (love?) old & finely made technology that works well. I don't own a fountain pen but I'd certainly consider one if I had a use for it.

Man jewellery...

Stanton does make a good point occasionally, but the point I would like to make is that he would look very good and appropriate in a duck blind or hunting flooded timber with a nice vintage Mickey Mouse watch on his wrist to go along with his fashionable vintage Super Fox.......and no occupational hazards there.

I've worn a watch ever since I learned to tell time. I don't go anywhere or any time without a wristwatch.

I had Timex watches with the Indiglo dial since I was riding horses and hunting in the dark. They fit that purpose and my budget.

I've had a couple TAG Heuer watches in battery and self-wind.

My Suunto Traverse has been used hard.

I'm now wearing a Garmin Fenix 7X Solar Saphire. I like it quite well. This one I opted for a good leather band. It has a light which has come in handy.

As for watch bands, I prefer all metal or silicone. Both aren't perfect, but neither is the smell from a fabric or leather one after continuous heavy use in warm climates. Gil

Many watch brands who made a good reliable product and worth paying that extra cost today have decided to push their products into the the bling luxury fashion levels to what I see you must have this watch to be on trend with the rest of the people who must have the next best offering. not realising they have entered the watch purchasing level of "diminishing returns for their money". In the 1960s and seventies Rolex who made a very reliable product for a nearly fair price with only a a down to earth number pf models of watch but now they make more variants of watches than I have had hot lunches also priced to the highest level that the market can stand.
In the late 1960s the work I had had a habit of destroying watches because I worked with high static and magnetic fields that would just stop my watches. Until I was given an cash offer I could not turn down a Military Rolex 5513 on approval by a friends older brother. It did have what I could see where problems because it did not look like the normal 5513 but it was a Rolex and at that time their where a number of these watches floating around if you did know the right people, so I gave him the money. Now this model of watch was built like a brick outhouse though you could not fit a metal strap because the strap bars where permanently fixed though it did have one big redeeming feature it had a very thick plastic crystal and if you scratched it you could polish them out.
I did ware the watch until I retired even though I did get a lot of leg pulling about the watch from work colleagues about having a fake "Mickie Mouse" Rolex and why dont I purchase a real one. and I did just that purchase the correct looking 5513 version. Now traveling to work in various cities in Europe it also dawned on me that those unsavoury types looking over people leaving Airports could also see a Brit waring an expensive watch so I quickly reverted to my Mickey Mouse looking Rolex until a couple of months before I retired when out of the blue a German customs officer at Munich Airport called me over and said take that of your wrist if you dont you will be mugged within the hour. so it went in my pocket either watch never to be worn again.
I am one of those people who feel naked without a watch but these days they are £10 quarts short life versions, the other two are like me in retirement.
Strangely enough the Rolex 5513 is now a very want able watch as old as it is, how things change with fashion



Mickeys watch is on the left, yes both crowns are unscrewed to remove pressure from the crowns sealing gasket

Bought on clearance after the company went out of business:



Not very many “things” I own went up in value, but, this did. I wear it as a dress watch here and there. Too big for much else.

Best,
Ted

I have a friend that is heavy into some type of Russian martial arts taught by ex-KGB agents. Regardless, my friend also wears a very expensive high-end Rolex. Several years ago, three thugs followed him into a shopping mall bathroom with the intention of taking his Rolex. He's still wearing it.....

Lloyd, when I was in the military I was a ground support equipment mechanic in VA-205, a A-4 SkyHawk reserve squadron. They sent me to electrical school at NAS Jax for a couple weeks. First thing out of the instructors mouth was to take off our watch and rings, if we had any on, and pull our shirttail out of our pants to cover the brass belt buckle on our web belts. A ring or a watch can contact a 12V source and if it grounds somewhere else at the same time you are left with an instant 3rd degree burn.

My grandad was given a wedding band by his three grown children when he was about 60 yr's old. He had never had one. He put it on and wore it until he was standing on the narrow ledge on the outside of a stake body farm truck, holding onto the top edge of the boards. His foot slipped and he fell straight down. Along the way his ring caught on some exposed threads of a 3/8" bolt. It nearly pulled his finger off. It didn't but it ripped the tissue from the bone so badly that the Doc had to saw the ring off before patching him up.

Lesson learned, for him and for me.

My grandfather once told me “A man with one watch always knows what time it is. A man with two always wonders”.

Long story but I accidentally tased myself, right in the Rolex I had on. A mini lightning bolt shot into it, no contact, probably 8" or so away. The watch didn't skip a beat. Don't wear it anymore because it appreciated too much.

In retrospect, my first mistake was probably providing engineering services to the Hells Angels. My second mistake was thinking it was an ordinary flashlight when it was a flashlight + taser.