[Closed] PSA: One for you watch anti-snobs...

My colleage wears one of these:

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The pic molgrips posted is what I rock at work. Cheap and cheerful 😀

But wearing the F-91W will get you thrown into Gitmo...

the divers style watch is nice , but they do a more stylish one with a stopwatch for £18.

Isn't that rather stretching the envelope though?

Cheap, tough, and simple is what you need.

Chuffin' heck, £15?
I think I might get one of those just in case my G-Shock goes tits-up for any reason. I hate wearing my Seiko to work, too much machinery around that I have to mess with, often rather suddenly, so it's easy to forget I'm wearing it when I shove my arms in to tear mangled paper out of the bloody things!

I've worn a £5 Casio for at least 15 years

and is water resistant to 100 metres (10 bar)

At a depth of 100 meters the pressure is 11 bar. If it survives 30m (4bar) I would be impressed. I wouldn't take it diving though!

crankboy - Member
the divers style watch is nice , but they do a more stylish one with a stopwatch for £18.

which one?

If it is waterproof to arm dunking depth it is fine by me. At 10m it would be more water resistant then I'd be be!

You guys who wear the cheap Casios are just so [i]edgy[/i]

You guys who wear the cheap Casios are just so edgy

Eh??? You make no sense.

Casio digital watches will always rule. However, 'divers style' smacks of 'chocolate flavour'.

I had an F-91W and was gutted when I left it at hospital after the operation on my ankle. I have an orange W-214H now and its ace.

The one I wear everyday is down to a tenner

monkeychild - Member
You guys who wear the cheap Casios are just so edgy
Eh??? You make no sense.

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/jan-31st-photos ]Ahem[/url]

*s*****

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2516585.htm

Go me one of these for bike and surf duties, a right steal for £20
It's chuffing ace and has a 10yr battery life too 🙂
So far it's been very robust

seavers - Member
At a depth of 100 meters the pressure is 11 bar. If it survives 30m (4bar) I would be impressed. I wouldn't take it diving though!

SM

I have one and paid 30 a few months ago. I am also the coolest person you know. I am known all around for being edgy and even jaunty sometimes.

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mine didn't make it home from the red sea, the salt fused the rotating bezel and crown screw... when it just stopped it went in the bin but it wasn't the pressure that killed it, just died one evening

for that price it's not a bad watch, I seem to remember it keeping decent time...

I take one to 60m (7 bar) quite often, seems to be holding up OK.

SM

Braver man than I.

I prefer this one for £13:
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I am also the coolest person you know. I am known all around for being edgy and even jaunty sometimes.

I think that is a great quote!

Its a crime on single track to point out that you can tell the time cheaply

I think its the only time on single track that I've ever had people take offense. All I did was point out the price of the watch

I won't tell you how much my watch cost. I was going to post the a link but Decathlon have discontinued it!

andyl
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9073368.htm

but don't buy me it i think the wife may get me it for my birthday

Pfffft, W-86 for the win 😀

[img] http://www.casio.co.uk/handlers/RenderMediaItemData.ashx?id=61913 [/img]

Long time F-91W fan, but the backlight on the '86 (as those of us on the cutting edge refer to them) is easily worth the extra £5.00.

Previous cheapskate Casio thread:
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/watch-lovers-replacing-my-f-91w-is-there-any-alternative ]Linky[/url]

Am treating myself to one of these soon:
[img] http://www.casio.co.uk/handlers/RenderMediaItemData.ashx?id=63508 [/img]
Because I always wanted one as a kid.

For my 10 years with a multi national blue chip company i got this...

http://www.sekonda.co.uk/index.php?fuseaction=Product.view&ModelID=666

it was half price in argos at the time... I've nato'ed the strap and it's fine for pottering in but everytime i look at it i get a wry smile on my face.

monkeychild - Member
The pic molgrips posted is what I rock at work.

Word to the wise: anyone that uses the term "rock", non-ironically, most certainly does not "rock".

Saccades - Member
For my 10 years with a multi national blue chip company i got this...

http://www.sekonda.co.uk/index.php?fuseaction=Product.view&ModelID=666

You could have got a s/h Seiko for not much more!

Rockist.

Haha, nice call DezB... I don't shy away from my edginess.

Water Resistant to 100m - 200m : Allows for swimming, snorkeling and showering (do not expose to hot water)

andyl
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9073368.htm

but don't buy me it i think the wife may get me it for my birthday

not chunky enough 🙁

It looks familiar though. I have a feeling I bought my dad that watch when I was a kid (must have been somewhere around 7-10 years old).

I used to have the top of the range calculator casio watch. Was a lot nicer looking than the cheaper ones at the time with flusher buttons with a tasteful bit of red on a couple of keys and 50m water proof compared to 25m so would win at playground watch top trumps. 😀

Quite fancy a G-shock now.

Oh I still have my first watch. A Knight Rider watch from the 1980s. The back doesnt stay on any more for some reason but i am tempted to see if I can fix it and put a new battery in and see if it works.

I wonder if it is year 2k compatible? It has the Knight Rider theme tune as the alarm. I remember when Gran bought it for me 😀

Word to the wise: anyone that uses the term "rock",
non-ironically, most certainly does not "rock".

I generally sway, but I do like to rock stuff. I'm very good at it.

DezB - Member

monkeychild - Member
You guys who wear the cheap Casios are just so edgy
Eh??? You make no sense.

Ahem

ahahah! Brilliant work Dez! 🙂

If you wear one of those Casio F-91's just be careful who you let see it. Or you may be going on a rather long '[i]vacation[/i]'...

[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-casio-wris****ch-alqaida ]Casio wris****ch 'the sign of al-Qaida': Casio F-91W, a cheap digital watch sold around the world, was taken as evidence of detainees having bomb-making training[/url]

can your 10,000 pound watch do this?

didn't think so.

andyl
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9073368.htm

but don't buy me it i think the wife may get me it for my birthday

I had one of those around 20-25 years ago.

Before that was a Casio with the 'screen bars', it was an early one that was fully analogue, later ones had the dual ana-digi face.

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decathlon, fontainbleu, ...(searches for the 'Euro' symbol, gives up) 8 euros!

3 years old, scratched and battered, changes mode at random, it's ace.

🙂

Cheers for the heads up ohnoetc. Just picked mine up from Argos - perfect ride watch. Whilst I have lots of watches I didn't have one I'd want to risk out on the trails.

Light, seems robust and easy to tell the time at a glance - all for £15.

Cheers

Danny B

cynic-al - Member
monkeychild - Member
The pic molgrips posted is what I rock at work.
Word to the wise: anyone that uses the term "rock", non-ironically, most certainly does not "rock".

Saccades - Member
For my 10 years with a multi national blue chip company i got this...
> http://www.sekonda.co.uk/index.php?fuseaction=Product.view&ModelID=666

You could have got a s/h Seiko for not much more!

That's half the reason for the wry smile...