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I do very much like that Swiss Army pocket watch 🙂
I have had my cheap one for a day now and so far it has been +/-15 seconds 🙂Here are a couple of photos
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I haven’t worn a wrist watch in years. About 12 or 13 years ago when I was working hospital security, I found that I got cut a few times by my watch strap during scuffles with undesirables who needed to be ejected from the premises. Also hospitals are filthy and the watch strap was just a breeding ground for filth. My solution was a Coleman quartz pocket watch, and I’ve never looked back. Working law enforcement, I like the pocket watch for the same reasons.
The Coleman on a Double Albert chain I made:
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Great Swiss Railways pocket watch … the watch face graphics are really clean and crisp!
I wear a Gotham pocket watch, cost about $40, Japanese Quartz (GWC15022BBK). I like it a lot for the freeing of my wrist whether I am doing intensive computer stuff, writing or using my hands in work. To the point that I’ve given up on wrist watches altogether. I find it gives me a more relaxed routine, I’m only letting time dictate to me when I choose rather than it always staring me in the face. I may replace it for daily wear with a Stuhrling Original 815.01 which is water proof and has very smart looks. I do have my eye on a Tissot (T854.205.19.037.00) for formal wear one day when I can afford it, beautiful but not at all cheap! My problem is this. There is still no decent option for a working pocket watch with decent glow in the dark hands, date and a chronograph apart from a few limited edition watches from the big boys with horrific pricing. In other words a replacement for a regular standard wrist watch. We’re 100 years too late I’m afraid. I’ve not even tried to bother with antique stuff, great for formal wear but about as reliable as a car from the same era if you want to use it for day to day wear…
Bought this at a flea market for 5.00
It actually works, but keeps poor time.
I keep it as more of a novelty, as I have my regular wrist watch.
I may decide to have it fixed.
[IMG]…My problem is this. There is still no decent option for a working pocket watch with decent glow in the dark hands, date and a chronograph apart from a few limited edition watches from the big boys with horrific pricing…
I can’t help you with the chronograph and date, but that coleman has glow in the dark hands, and for $25 or so at wal mart, it lasted well over ten years and kept very good time. It still runs fine and keeps good time as far as the movement is concerned, but the time setting mechanism is a bit worn out so that it pops up and stops the movement while riding in your pocket from time to time, which I cannot have. I may try to tinker with it in an attempt to fix it some day.Just looking back over my earlier Post #14. I also have a Victorinox travel clock that is based off that same design:
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The things I like about it are it does have luminous hands, a built-in cover, keeps good time, has an alarm, a Swiss movement, an overall rock solid chrome case (unlike the current plastic Victorinox ones), and is only a hair bigger than the plain Victorinox Pocket Watch. Only downside is that the alarm sound is not crazy loud. However, in fairness I should point out I have a hearing loss and yet the watch has consistently been able to wake a slugabed like me every time.
These are somewhat hard to find, but worth it, in my opinion. YMMV.
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