Posted: 12/6/2007 12:18:02 PM EDT
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What are your specs? How much do you want to spend? Do you need a watch for just time? Casio makes some of the best ones out there, IMO, for field use. The Mudman is a good choice. The Pathfinder is for the information deprived (compass, altimeter, thermometer). I've got a G-shocks, model g7500, that works like a champ, has vibration instead of beep for hour and alarm and survived a year of Bradleys, Humvees and dismount ops. There's a guy here somewhere, Shakyjake, that sent me a watch for one of my soldiers...turns out the soldier that earned the watch got it as a going home present! Thank goodness for the delayed deployment, let some deserving soldiers go home... Basically, you can get whatever ya want, from the $20 Timex Camp watch to the $200 Casio Pathfinder...or go all out and get you a TAG Heuer for a couple of grand. GB PS: look into the Casio G7500, nice watch and very durable! |
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suunto vector.... had my first one for almost 8 years- through military school in vermont, SOI, training in hawaii, two CAX's and a deployment here- plus a work up and half a second deployment... just replaced it with......you guessed it- another suunto vector Only reason I got another was that the battery door slot was too messed up to open and change the battery... I was a bit careless in that regard. So I figured while i'm getting deployment money, why not get a new one.... -Roth |
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I am still using a USGI field watch with no day\date. I'm about to replace it but I'm a bit shocked at what a good but not terribly expensive watch costs these days. If you like the traditional watch face then you might like this Puslar. Pulsar PF3663 |
If you got some change  County Comm This is the type I was looking for at the bottom of the page, a basic analog tough watch Analog watch |
Exactly what I wore in Iraq with a fabric wristband/cover. Simple, does the job, works just fine, no big deal if you lose it, smash it, blow it up. |
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The $20 Timex with indiglo. You can actuallu use the light to see up close and the digital clock tells you what time it is for those times you suffer from sleep deprivation and can't read dials. They can be replaced cheaply at the PX. Just can't use them to find North. |
| Save your money and buy a good G-Shock. First tour bought a Suunto, good watch except went through batterys way too often and crystal got scratched to shit with just daily use. Second tour had my old G-shock I've had for four years, never needed a battery and is still in great condition. Not pretty but probably the toughest watch out there. |
Timex Ironman Triathalon. $29.95 www.amazon.com/Timex-Ironman-Triathlon-Resistant-T62962/dp/B000B545CI/ref=sr_1_84?ie=UTF8&s=jewelry&qid=1199478777&sr=1-84 I've shot MANY TOTs off this watch and it's predecessor. The stopwatch buttons are awesome for anyone that needs to do fancy timing and stuff. They are durable and waterproof as heck. Cheap too. |
That's what I have now...I never could figure out the lap function.... Have had it for (similar model) for about 6 years, replaced the battery once and it has spent ton's of hours in the pool and lakes...maybe I should stick with what works instead of what looks uber cool 
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How did your band hold up on it? Mine got kind of ratty.. |
| The ironman watches are solid. Ive had the same one for two years. The only thing that is a problem is the band. Not structurally, but it just starts to stink so you have to wash it ocasionally. I guess you could have a rubber or metal replacement band, but I don't like the feel of them. I will stick with the black cloth band. |
The part where the pins go through tends to stretch a bit. I change out bands probably once a year. The bands are a couple of bucks at the PX, and I actually found a band up in Mosul at the PX there(during OIF 3). In other words they were easy to find and replace. Also, I never mess with the lap functions. I'm not smart or fast enough. |
| I've had a g-shock for almost 2 years, and after being in the field in the jungles of Okinawa, Guam, the Philippines, the woods in Korea, the outback in Australia, and plenty of time in the ocean, it still runs like a champ and looks new (cept for the band). Ive had plenty of Timex watches shit the bed on me, and will never buy another. |
I went through a few good watches over there. A good steel band will stay with you. Lesser watches will fail. My first watch was a timex "GI" issue. The next was some glow in the dark thing from actiongear.com. I even had a Suunto. It was nice, but got beat up in a few months. The cloth and synthetic bands store up nasty human stink. I did my last 6 months wearing a TAG that I picked up in Kuwait in Fahaheel. The two things I found I needed the most were a stopwatch and the current time. That's all this watch does. The duty free there at KWI has the best prices on TAG watches and you get the international warranty. I paid more in Fahaheel.. not knowing that duty free had the same model. I'd love to say cheap watches are the way to go, but I went with a swiss automatic and it still looks new, two years since new. -Luke |