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A NATO G10. Analogue, cheap and indestructible.


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 1:30 pm
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Have a Core - very tough watch, but I managed to dent mine and rip 3 straps.
now have this

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tough as f*ck


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 1:54 pm
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With the Core, does stuff like golf (sudden sharp impact through the wrist) screw up the compass? Or is it fine 'cause it's not an analogue compass?


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 6:50 pm
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Get a cheap Casio for on the bike and other manly activities then spend the rest on a swish watch for the rest if the time

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Casio-F-91W-1YER-Resin-Digital-Watch/dp/B000J34HN4/ref=sr_1_10?s=watch&ie=UTF8&qid=1345141168&sr=1-10


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 7:25 pm
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that's the whole point. I don't want to have to change watches.


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 8:00 pm
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Fair enough, I used to just wear one until I scratched the hell out of my engagement present watch.


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 8:23 pm
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[b]Count[/b]Zero- not a trick question, i gave them up decades ago, as deadlydarcy says you soon learn how to gauge time, its an inbuilt sense we all have but neglect, i can usually get within five minutes any time day or night, besides there are multiple devices that have time on them all around us, so unless his job/situation required accurate timekeeping its all a bit academic ,non?

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You're lucky to have that accurate time sense, I probably haven't got enough life left to develop it. I need a means to tell time at work, for job timekeeping, the main area I work in does not allow mobiles to be switched on for security purposes, and most days I have zero computer access. So when I get a phone call in the middle of a job telling me I have to go and take over from someone else at a set time I have to be there at that time, not some approximation ten or fifteen minutes either way.


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 11:39 pm
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You soon learn the tell the time to within fifteen minutes. After around fifteen years of not hanging a timepiece off my wrist, I've now got it down to within minutes most of the time. I can't really say how this skill has been developed, but you just get to a kind of oneness with your environment, with the sky and the position of the sun and stars, even when cloudy. Of course, unless you throw off your chains, you will never experience this. And that's fine, a piece of plastic or whatever on your wrist can inform you.

Also, I never get phone calls from people telling me to be such and such a place at a certain time to which I have to dutifully report. Yessir. And long may that last.


 
Posted : 17/08/2012 12:55 am
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Stick it to the man, DD! 🙂


 
Posted : 17/08/2012 9:54 am
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