Military personal- What watch are you wearing?

[charger02]

Is it durable?

[donoharm]

Well said!

I've had quite a few jobs and a couple of deployments since I came in. I wore a gshock during basic and thru my first deployment to Africa (disgusting, dirty, dusty place), and thru a forward deployment to a classified location in SE Asia as combat comm. I barely made it home, but it came out with just a few scratches and a broken strap. I know quite a few guys that have been thru several IED attacks with the same G-shock on their wrist! Now I have quite a few more watches. Still have a g shock, but it's the all analog, GW-3000b on the metal bracelet (IMHO, the coolest G shock made!) I also wear a citizen Eco drive, BM8180, on a paracord bracelet I made for it. Those are the only quartz watches I own. I have just got into seiko's and I think I'm addicted to them! In the last month I have bought a seiko's OM, white stargate ( still in the plastic, not sure if I'm gonna keep it yet), and a samurai that my gf bought me for my birthday. The more I learn about watches, and horology as a whole, the more I like seiko's. For the money I make, I cannot find another watch with an in house movement, a good history (not made up for marketing purposes like almost every other watch today), and with quality rivaling watches 3 times their price. And, seiko is one of the few companies in the world that are actively researching new movements (spring drive) and pushing the envelope on what can be done with the automatic movement. That alone draws me to seiko's, instead of some company who buys generic Swiss movements, polishes them up, puts them in a fancy case then tries to charge in the thousands for them!

[Nalu]

Like I said over in the Omega forum, discerning Army aviators choose Speedy Pros!

USN aviators too, apparently

[charger02]

Pilots....in every Service they are the same! Nice Omegas!

Is it me or do there seem to be a lot of classified locations in SE Asia?

[jayjaygoodtimes]

US Army 1990 - 99...US Defense Contractor from 2005 - 09...wore the Suunto Vector and Kobold SMG-1 Tac pictured here.



Now a days I still have the Kobold...but am wearing the Deep Blue M2K GMT as an everyday piece...

[Boone]

Very cool thread. Love the variety.

[E8ArmyDiver]

Hey guys(especially you RANGER)..I wanted to keep this thread active because I have noticed more & more young service members joining WUS & becoming active on the forums..As a matter of fact the Deep Blue pictured below is on it's way to the Pacific,where a young Marine on his maiden sea tour is waiting patiently for his first "REAL"watch(his words)...He promised to post pics of the watch in exotic locals so look for it in the dive forum... As for Myself, I lied about my age,forged my father the preachers signature & joined the U.S.Army at 17(back in '77 they were just glad to have recruits so they never checked & I was real close to 18 anyway)...Straight from boot to dive school at NAS Key West & then to Ft.Eustis,Va.for my first post..Never wore a watch on the water & we always had a tender or dive super to track our dive time...In the late 80's tensions around the world were pretty high thanks to Ronnie & I found myself TDY all over the planet(especially the Med & Carrib)where I would be dumped off ship with 3 other divers for HOURS at a time, all of the sudden a watch seamed like a good idea... I picked up a digital seiko at the PX & wore that all through the 80's..In 1990 SadMan Insane(our pet name for Sadam Hussien)started some crap in the MED & I found myself once again TDY doing hull inspections & a little U/W Mapping along some of the coastline..Perfect timing as a young startup watch company had a new watch on the market with some amazing newfangled lume technology called Tritium...So I grabed one of the new Luminox Navy Seal watches & it followed me faithfully for 10+years...I retired in 2001 just before the Sept.11 ATTACKS & really was'nt into watches until I saw my first Orange Monster in '04..I now mostly desk dive but I still shoot a lot & since I'm semi retired(not so much lately though)I have been known to disappear into the desert or forest for days at a time,when I do the L/T will be going with me..

[vipereaper30]

It used to be my Breitling Aerospace Advantage LE intermingled with the rest of my collection. Now it's going to be this new Bremont Alt1-Z LE at the expense of all others for quite some time!

[Kraut783]

If i was in the army it would be this

Nice look, what watch is this?

[LarryCfromTexas]

I believe that is a Timefactors Speedbird 2. Google Timefactors or Eddie Platts and you will see them. They are very cool.

Nice look, what watch is this?