Operator's timepiece without looking like a tactifag

>>34829512
>Not useless chronometer
>Not having the need to take into account valuable seconds
>Operator
I respectfully disagree

>>34829512
>no useless chronometers, no disgusting complex dials
wdhmbt?

Honestly, you should probably stick to digital watches if you can't understand the use of these features.

> dull pencil
For what purpose?

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>>34829512
>apple keyboard
>making sure coffee is located in the photo
>fancy notebook
>unsharpened pencil
>swatch
checks out

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>operator watch
>swiss made
> not jap

It's stock photo you dweebs. I just bought this Swatch watch on a holiday, I am very surprised by it's utility, has day, date, second hands, lightweight.

I took off my G-shock and replaced with this and it's like I gained my wrist back!

>>34829555
>I took off my G-shock and replaced with this and it's like I gained my wrist back!
How weak are you? The only downside to G-Shocks are the use of batteries. But I suspect your Swatch is battery operated as well.

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>>34829512
Russia 6e4-1
for the maximum slavboo effect

>>34829512
Just get a seiko or citizen dive watch and be done with it.

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Bought mine in "93" has never failed me nor had any major time slips. Maybe 3 min per 5 years movement. Made it "91"

*not my pic but exactly like it*

>>34829571
So fucking pointless and gross. I bet you put aimpoint on your duracoated glock 22.

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>>34829571
it come with a leather trap

the camo cover is removable

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>>34829595
was mean to reply to this >>34829581

and yes, the Russian special force prefer Casio over this thing

>>34829571
Jesus, it's so ugly. I'd rather have Adventure Time watch

just use your phone like a normal person, watches are autistic.

>>34829512
>a fucking mac
>specifies not looking like a fag
Dude those two things dont go together sorry.

>>34829512
So you're looking for a swatch that has no extra functions, yet is branded as "tacticool" so you can pay extra for it and play operator?

>>34829627
>i'm going to go into a watch thread and complain about people who wear watches
That's some pretty autistic shit tbqh

>>34829627
>phone battery dies
>what time is it hun?
>hurr durrr time is irrelevant stupid bitch

>>34829627
>easily broken
>low battery life
>can be lost
>most of the aren't even moisture resistant

Quick /k/ whats the most utility watch with the most features, meters and dials. No matter how niche or specific.

>>34829850
Probably the G-Shock that's right for you.

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>>34829850
Get a protrek or pathfinder if you want fabulous features. They're like G-shocks but better in every single way.

>>34829512
Marathon.

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What you think about my watches?

>>34831573
Whoopsie-down. BTW, the MTM in center is a divers watch with actual fluid in the bezel.

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>>34831573
>>34831610

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>>34829512
>minimal
childish

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>>34829512
just get a dw5600 variant and call it a day

>>34831635
/thread

>>34829559
iirc g shock makes a few solar powered watches

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Has served me well over the past few years. Worn under my gear in so many fires it now carries a smokey aroma. Also has been pretty blood/waterproof so thats a plus.

>>34831999
They're mostly japan only iirc. Filthy gaijin unworthy of superior technology.

>>34829608
The camo strap is removable, its just so you can protect the leather.

>>34832154
hey buddy can you fuck right off? at least post a nazi watch or something
>>>/pol/

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>>34829512

>Tough as fuck
>Atomic time keeping
>Comes with the usual alarm, timers, calenders, etc.
>Auto light function
>Runs on the fucking sun
>10 month battery in case I'm stuck in a cave


I've been wanting it for a while, but I haven't gotten one yet as I've been putting money into other places first. I don't think I'd want any other watch after I get this one.

Debating on whether I want the one with a negative screen, but I hear it's really hard to read under sunlight, so idk.

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If you're not using this then you're not a real operator

>>34832323
Yeah, G-shocks are the way to go. And mine G-7700 was going on for 8 years on one battery

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Seiko SNK809 meets all your requirements except for muh Swiss. Mine kicks ass and I wear it in grimy saltwater conditions all the time.

>>34832485
Oops, it has a NATO strap, disregard, good luck finding the girl of ur dreams

>>34832356
>Chunkier than the original G757
>Unobtainum
>Screen wears out in 7 years
They're nice though.

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>>34832356
Do I get my operator license in the mail or do I need to pick it up somewhere?

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>>34829512
Pic related is what I rock.

>>34832504
First off, not a NATO strap as it is clearly 2 pieces and not a single one.
Second, just change it out for something flashier if thats what you want. Thats what I love about simple watches, uou can change the band and make it look completely different.

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>>34832485
Can confirm.

Beat the shit out of mine and it runs like new.

>>34832714
Nice Bond watch

>that keyboard

Get an apple watch you filthy fag

>>34829627
At work we have to lock our phones up boyo

>>34831674
ordered this. hopefully the chinks send me the right one.

>>34833115
I love it. Zero regrets.

>>34831898
>Ubuntu Unity
>Qbittorrent

Opinion discarded.

>>34832714
that strap looks sweet, too bad it doesn't mix well with the giant square face

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>>34829850
you'll need to specify and upper limit on the size/weight

>>34833532
>>34581941

>>34831898

Did you look up "The Poor Mans James Bond" on Wikipedia? My fucking sides

>>34833546
The sky is the limit

>operator
kys

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>>34829512
you aren't operator unless you have a g-shock. fucking everyone and their mother in the army uses those damn things. personally i use pic related.

I want something extremely light and comfortable, I have a G-shock but it really doesn't feel comfy and is bulky

please advise

>>34831635
/thread

>>34829512

Casio Pro Trek. Good, rugged, good price (sub $500), lots of features. The only downside is 100m WPR instead of 200.

Just make sure you get a combination Analog Digital model.

>>34834568
only upside is if you take week long hikes in the wilderness. just get a g-shock and save a couple hundo.

>>34834623

> He doesn't spend more than a few hours innawoods

This is why /k/ sucks

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Marathon SAR; had mine since 2004. Still ticking. Also have a ProTrek 2872 about the same age. Still doing whatever solar powered digital watches do.

>>34834386
casio f91w
bonus points: you are now a terrorist

>>34834568
>100m WPR instead of 200
i have a 3500 protrek and it's water resistant to 20bar/660ft. 100m is only suitable for washing your hands; what the hell kind of protrek isn't rated for at least swimming?

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>tacky?

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>>34835434
yeah that's pretty tacky

>>34831635
/thread

Also, if you're using a mechanical watch over a crystal oscillator, you're a retard.

>>34835649
>but muh A E S T H E T I C S /s

>>34832201

pure class.

regards,

tgv.

>>34829512
you deserve anal rape. while your parents watch.

>>34832201
>for when you need to find a logarithm at 30,000 feet.
noice

>>34832201
Can you calculate miles per hour with that mother fucker?

The only real military watches are rolexes, period.

when you actually want to get shit done, you don't want to be relying on a cheap quartz jap shit digital watch.

From the peruvian air force to the marina nationale and the octopus italian divers, rolexes are always the best choice.


You could get a pre-ceramic 14060m no date sub if you actually needed to get some work done on the field.

if all you need is the reliability and the looks for your desk diving missions, a 6 digit 36mm 114270 explorer 1 will do perfectly.

any route you decide, just remember that nothings is gayer (and as unreliable) as cheap swatches or digital watches.

doesn't mean omega seamasters, doxa subs and tag aquaracers aren't enough for most jobs, but if you want the absolute best, go safe, go rolex.

>>34836842

not, BUT,

it can go on a nato,

best regards,

TGV.

>>34836881
noticed how you didn't name a single military that actually matters

>>34836881
>Automatic
>More reliable than quartz
Lol okay Mr. Bond.

>>34836881
>muh brand recognition/marketing
A rolex watch is jewelry that tells time.
cheap quartz watches are more reliable and less affected by G-forces, magnetism, and being shit than mechanical watches every time. This is a fact.

>>34836881
probably also thinks fuddy five is GOAT

>>34835310
Story on why terrorists wear the f91w?
Is it just because its cheap? Easy bomba making material?
I'd simply just look it up myself but I just bought one and I really dont want to get on another list.

>>34837021
Cheap, reliable, accurate, and easy to use a a trigger for bombs.

>>34837021
it's cheap, available everywhere, and apparently can be mad to blow stuff up with minimal effort
apparently the FBI sees it as a potential terrorist identifier
i think there are pictures of bin laden wearing one floating around

>>34836902

rolexes matter.

what do he have nowadays?

the brits get pulsar, the americans get marathon, some don't get anything.

sorry, but i won't recommend digital shitters because they are cheaper.

>>34836926

it actually is, when you get to understand what goes into these movements, you'll realize that cheapest isn't always best.

>>34836951

nothing to do with brand name, i know what's inside an oyster case, and the "jewelry that tells time." argument is always used by people who wear 10 dollar quartz shitters.

they can sustain incredible amounts of forces and shocks, and they don't get easily magnetized anymore, that's called improvement (or parachrom hairspring), get with the times, anon.

wanna hear something? i have never seen a quartz 3 hander go 10 years without needing new batteries, but i have seen several 20+ year old rolexes keeping accurate time.

also haven't seen a single g-shock that was left somewhere for some 10+ years and didn't need a new strap, but that's not a problem for rolexes.

those are actual facts.

>>34837021
hilarious. I bought one when i joined the army because it had a slim form factor and simple design. still have it with me to this day.

>>34837053
>Oscillator and a couple of logic gates powered by a constant current somehow less reliable than a bunch of gears and a spring

>>34836987

now how about we both agree i'm right?
sorry to tell you, but i know a thing or two

i'm drunk but i probably won't lose this argument to you.

make it easier for you, i don't see how you could win this one, just agree with the truth and embrace the rolex power.

>>34837053
My 35 year old seiko digital keeps accurate time. My 35+ year old digital radios keep accurate time.
If simple accuracy is something to write home about, maybe automatics aren't as great as you think. I know a guy with an old protrek that's had the same strap since 2003.

>>34837053
Also, for bonus points:
Instantly tells everyone you have money, attracting all niggers, the homeless, junkies, and other assorted degeneracy within a 10 mile radius directly to you.

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>>34837053
mechanical watches are less accurate than crystal watches by their very nature. the most accurate "mechanical" watches are actually a quartz/mechanical hybrid where the quartz keeps the time and the mechanical parts are there to look pretty and get people to fork over money

>>34837021
Because it's cheap, it keep times well, easily available, has timer and stop watch functions. They used them in improvised bombs.

Bin laden wore one. Obama wore one. Schumacher stuck one on his formula one steering wheel. The thing has real pedigree, unlike a lot of higher end watches which just homages to this or that.

>>34837075

Yes!
who would know?

there's actually not much (at all) to go wrong with a date-only, properly serviced new movement.

they really are well made, to the point where people compare them to much more expensive movements.

as long as the crown is screwed down tightly, nothing is getting into the case, and the magical "perpetual" movements are pretty much perpetual unless you put them on your desk.

i know that on theory quartz is better, and they actually are quite simple if you don't need to rely on them, but if i had to choose between a highly complicated quartz digital watch or a time-only, robust automatic movement, i would get the latter.

>>34837208
>highly complicated quartz digital watch
wdhmbt?

>>34837104

i don't know about radios, or about your particular digital seiko, but they probably do.

but i'm pretty sure you had them serviced a couple dozen of times, and i'm also sure they wouldn't withstand combat scenarios.

about the protrek.... yes, probably does, my 1974 rolex has had it's bracelet since... 1974, and it's just as good as new.
Had a 1960's yellow gold calatrava with it's original leather strap, it wasn't that pretty, but it worked.

>>34837118

sure, never leave home unarmed anyways.

>>34837128

that's not how mecaquartz works, anon.

Funny thing is I had a mecaquartz heuer titanium, and they were actually more expensive than manual wind/automatic at the time (wich makes no sense).

If it was only for the money, they would have made them with some generic decorated movements and charged the same amount or more, it would have sold way better no doubt about it.

>>34837313

i had a few digital watches since i got into watches,

Next to my current ones wich are a vintage casio dw-200 marlin and non-working speedmaster (how reliable!), the best one was probably a suunto m1- wich although isn't suunto's "best" watch, is still very complicated.

I come from a family of watchmakers, (one of grandfather's passions), so I know the diference between low-beat and high-beat, i know how to demagnetize a watch, i know what beat error and amplitude are, and i could probably service some seikos quite well, but i couldn't do a thing with a quartz watch, specially a digital one that features 20 different functions.

since i took my speedmaster to some watchmakers that service vacherons and pateks daily and they couldn't figure it out, i would say they are quite a bit complicated (in the sense that they are a fucking pain in the ass to service).

>>34837502
fair enough. would you concur most digital watches are more accurate than most mechanicals? i have a casio protrek that i bought because it's solar and syncs up daily with the atomic clocks, so i don't have to worry about batteries or inaccuracies

>>34837208
What's up, retardbro? You know a quartz timepiece is actually stupidly simple? The crystal outputs a square wave and a few ICs do frequency division and real time clocking. Mechanical stuff is a Pandora's box with 10000 intricately crafted gears and springs that keep time with trash accuracy.

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>>34829512
Swatch is probably one of the worst when it comes to price to quality in most of their brands.

http://watchguy.co.uk/review-a-trip-inside-the-swatch-sistem51-eta-c10111/

>Swiss made, not jap or chink.

Gotta be careful with this the Swiss are really dodgy when it comes to defining what counts as Swiss made.

Likewise its rather telling and pathetic that the Swiss had to ban the Japanese from the Chronometer Competitions after they kept on winning

>>34837530
then i guess your area is actually related to electronics.

i don't know much about quartz, and honestly couldn't do shit with them.

I can't honestly see how one would get something as simple and reliable as a 1520 (non-cosc,5513 sub) movement.

it's still as accurate as pretty much any affordable quartz watch of today.

If you want to get a little /o/tistic, we can compare the 2017 vw up! to a 1971 vw beetle.

You would tell me about how simple and reliable the 1 liter turbocharged tsi engine is, and how great the gas mileage is on this boxy-looking thing that comes with all safety itens and a 5-star crash test rating, and i would proceed to show that, in fact, it's a piece of shit plastic car, and the beetle will actually stay working for way longer, it's cheaper to service (you can get the whole car apart by yourself), prettier and funnier to drive, and could probably make the same amount of hp's without much struggle.

that would be the difference between a quartz digital watch and a vw beetle.

>>34831573
Is the Suunto real? I bought one that turned out to be a knockoff.

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I really like my Bulova Precisionist. While I like big and gaudy and flashy, there are more neutral styles available.

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>>34829512 (OP)
Casio Protrek
There is no other option.
>atomic time
>solar powered
>all normal wristwatch-timey things like chronograph, alarm, etc
>sun rise/set times
>altimeter/barometer
>temperature
>compass
You can literally go anywhere with just this watch.

>>34839229
is it comfy/heavy?

>>34839151
"i don't know much about quartz, but automatics must be better because i like an old car"
-you
comparing apples to oranges does not reinforce your argument

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>>34832356

>>34839273
let's not bring the "manual transmission vs automatic transmission" shitflinging into here

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>>34839256
It is actually quite comfy. The watch face is what I would say "medium-sized". It is a bit big, but certainly not gigantic/clunky; but I have skinny wrists. The watch itself is not heavy. I have never found myself being conscious of wearing it, or wanting to take it off, while hiking.

>>34839287
yeah m8 that's literally what i'm saying, because neither one is an adequate surrogate for quartz/automatic watches in this argument

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>>34839306
Noted and put on the wishlist, tanks and have a loli

>>34839256
i have a PRW-3500 Protrek. The only times i've had to take it off is if i'm elbow deep in a car engine bay or something similar. They have a titanium version if you're going all ultralight, but the regular one isn't heavy

>>34839324
The model I have, PRW-2000Y, can only be had in Japan, but there are many new models available in America.

>>34837502
I come from a family of many different professions. I've had a few digital watches that broke, two due to water and one due to age. I fixed all three of them with my hobbyist level understanding of electronics ,~50 dollars worth of tools and 1.60$ in parts. They're very simple if you know a little bit about electronics.

>>34839151
You come off as a luddite who thinks that electrical parts is inversely proportional to reliability. I don't mean that as an insult, but I'm seeing more and more of this kind of thinking.
Quartz watches are incredibly simple. You have a quartz oscillator which creates a square wave at a known frequency, which is then divided by a bunch of gates and then fed into an IC which outputs time. My G757 has a total of 12 components on the PCB if you count the big epoxied IC, plus another five for the screen/mirror assembly and another three for the chassis. It's not complicated.

>>34839256
I have a PRG-270. It's really light for the size, and I only ever removed it when I was lifting bags of cement or other heavy loads where I didn't want my wrist to catch on anything. They're also really cheap.

>>34839697
And the 50 dollars worth of tools is almost entirely tools I already had for years.

>>34836881
You buy automatics for heritage, not time telling ability

>>34832201
100 bucks says you don't even know how to use that watch.

>>34839287
Auto trannies are for pussies that can't drive.

>>34840744
probably like 3 people in the world that do

>>34839776
not true.

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look at this sexy operator and his timepeice

>>34829994
But how will you let people know you are in the costguard/ firefighter / soldier / extreme athlete and pretty much the most exciting person in the room!?!

Your watch has a compass, barometer and tells you what time it is?!?!

You must be the one that killed Osama!

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>>34841811
G-Shocks are for the man who has something to prove.

Protreks are for the refined man of culture and taste who's perfectly content with himself.

>>34837118
This. You're getting a knife in the kidneys. You won't see it coming. All you know is that sweet rolex will be gone soon.

>>34829512
G-shock or you suck cock

>>34839151
Are you actually retarded?
Maybe it would make sense if you used a decent old car, like a 2CV, as an example but the beetle is garbage. It only sold because it was cheap and hippies liked "cute" look.

The beetle was and is a total shit box.