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Alright, looking for a decent watch, interested in the casio gshock and the luminox. To keep it short It will be worn every day and not treated super nice\ as I am a firefighter and outdoorsman.
The must haves:
Analog or ana/digital
back light
waterproof to around 100m(no I don’t dive but am around water almost daily)
Can with stand tempts from -45F up to 200-300 degrees under my bunker gear in a fire.
chemical resistant to fuels/oils..etc
small-ish face preferred as i have a small wrist
stylish
basic functions is ok
second hand
under $350ish
easily disinfected as I can and do deal with blood and other lovely liquids.this is what I do
firefighting and ems
automotive work
hunting and fishing
rock climbing sometimes
skiing
watersports
anything and everything outdoorsI really like the toughness and features of the gshock, but like the fit and look of the luminox. Have heard great about both. I am also open to other brands.
Josh
I own both and both are great watches! However as an Emergency room RN I frequently find myself up to my elbows in those liquids you spoke of and have no issues scrubbing a G-Shock with a Chlorine wipe…I wear my Luminox some on off days.
I’d go with the G-Shock. They’re pretty darn indestructible and I haven’t heard nearly as many bad things about them as I have about Luminox.
Luminox is infamous for iffy quality and even iffier CS. There are many stories of people who swam with their Luminoxes that got standing water inside the case, bezel issues, case durability issues, trits falling off hands, second hands falling off, lugs failing, etc.G-shock hands down. Plenty of options for digital or analog or combination. Most well under 100 bucks. If you can handle digital the 6900 series are great. The 6900 XL are a little larger.
I’ve gotten 14 years great fire and EMS service out of my Luminox. I’ve only had to change the battery (for the first time) recently and it still has the original crystal! It’s been awesome. The hands glow, but it does not have a backlight.
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For your budget, you can get one of each. (I think) 🙂
I am a big fan of Casio G-Shock for their toughness and (relative) affordability. But I have no idea how they will do in high temp situation. I supposed if you (the wear) is fine and you are wearing the watch close to your skin, the watch should be fine.
Also check out Victorinox INOX. Its a metal cased watch with sapphire crystal, its designed to be resistant to … everything. haha~
But it doesn’t have backlite and the lume is not great. You can read the hour in the middle of the night if you charge the lume with a flashlight before going to bed. But its nothing like Seiko diver nor Tritium tube in Traser/Luminox
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I got the middle one, its a little over your specified budget, and it was over mine as well. I do like this watch a whole lot, has all the standard features, solar power with the automatic time signal receiver, water resist, etc. Mine is comfortable, and this is not the big face like the 55mm/XL models. Looking back, no second hand…it does have the seconds ticking on the digital display though.
Looks like I’ll go gshock! Or… Now I have been looking at seikos. Pretty nice setups from what I see. Although not sure about anything with an automatic watch…
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isn’t an average g-shock significantly cheaper? I really can’t believe the quality your get for the price on those.
+1 for the G-Shock. My rep with Luminox is somewhat tarnished, I used to run a 3080BO until I crashed on my bike head on into another biker. No one was injured, but one of the tritium vials on the watch popped out of its place. It was out of warranty and I didn’t see much point in getting it fixed (tbh, I didn’t know whether shipping it to the service facility would wreck the watch more with the vial bouncing around). I switched to a Timex and now a smartwatch for EDC; figured that as cool as tritium is, a backlight is really enough for everyday use.
I would expect maybe the design of the watch is what killed it; the metal and higher end Luminox’s probably won’t run into a problem like this, but might be more expensive.+1 for the G-Shock. My rep with Luminox is somewhat tarnished, I used to run a 3080BO until I crashed on my bike head on into another biker. No one was injured, but one of the tritium vials on the watch popped out of its place. It was out of warranty and I didn’t see much point in getting it fixed (tbh, I didn’t know whether shipping it to the service facility would wreck the watch more with the vial bouncing around). I switched to a Timex and now a smartwatch for EDC; figured that as cool as tritium is, a backlight is really enough for everyday use.
I would expect maybe the design of the watch is what killed it; the metal and higher end Luminox’s probably won’t run into a problem like this, but might be more expensive.+1 for the G-Shock. My rep with Luminox is somewhat tarnished, I used to run a 3080BO until I crashed on my bike head on into another biker. No one was injured, but one of the tritium vials on the watch popped out of its place. It was out of warranty and I didn’t see much point in getting it fixed (tbh, I didn’t know whether shipping it to the service facility would wreck the watch more with the vial bouncing around). I switched to a Timex and now a smartwatch for EDC; figured that as cool as tritium is, a backlight is really enough for everyday use.
I would expect maybe the design of the watch is what killed it; the metal and higher end Luminox’s probably won’t run into a problem like this, but might be more expensive.+1 for the G-Shock. My rep with Luminox is somewhat tarnished, I used to run a 3080BO until I crashed on my bike head on into another biker. No one was injured, but one of the tritium vials on the watch popped out of its place. It was out of warranty and I didn’t see much point in getting it fixed (tbh, I didn’t know whether shipping it to the service facility would wreck the watch more with the vial bouncing around). I switched to a Timex and now a smartwatch for EDC; figured that as cool as tritium is, a backlight is really enough for everyday use.
I would expect maybe the design of the watch is what killed it; the metal and higher end Luminox’s probably won’t run into a problem like this, but might be more expensive.+1 for the G-Shock. My rep with Luminox is somewhat tarnished, I used to run a 3080BO until I crashed on my bike head on into another biker. No one was injured, but one of the tritium vials on the watch popped out of its place. It was out of warranty and I didn’t see much point in getting it fixed (tbh, I didn’t know whether shipping it to the service facility would wreck the watch more with the vial bouncing around). I switched to a Timex and now a smartwatch for EDC; figured that as cool as tritium is, a backlight is really enough for everyday use.
I would expect maybe the design of the watch is what killed it; the metal and higher end Luminox’s probably won’t run into a problem like this, but might be more expensive.
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