Watches

[rhightower]

Anyone know of any good digital watches that people are wearing in the Navy and at OCS?

 

[Brodie143]

It depends on whether you want to spend money or not. Since my watch has gotten banged up pretty good from walking around the boat and stuff, I get the cheap Navy Exchange watches. The Timex Expedition is pretty good. It has the standard alarm, chronometer, timer and it also features a second time zoon if you wish. All for around $27.00. It is easy to read and it also has the indiglo.

 

[webmaster]

Go on deployment, and get together with your wardroom and purchase an Omega. Regularly $3500 or so, get it for ~$800, and they put your squadron patch on the back.

 

[farkle84]

that watch is pretty nice. for OCS i used a casio g-shock like many of the other candidates.

 

[WFU2USN]

Shoot, I don't think the Mickey Mouse watch I typically wear is going to work...

;-)

 

[theblakeness]

@webmaster,

Thats an awesome watch!! Wonder how many of my unborn children I would have to sell for that.

 

[webmaster]

I have seen it all over the place, those and the Breitlings, but I like the Omega better, especially when you get your squadron patch etched in the back of the watch. Especially at that price. I typically wear my Casio G-shock that I purchased back in '94 and is still going strong.

WFU2USN, no, go ahead and wear the Mickey Mouse watch to that first briefing...

 

[WFU2USN]

Hey, Mickey is cool..hehe. I did wear it for my last 2 years on active duty, to the dimsay of my chief. I think showing up at OCS with it on would be much more amusing....hehe.



PS: No worries, I know better..

 

[ea6bflyr]

I like my $14 Casio. Make sure it is waterproof, Has a stopwatch (chronograph), and it displays the time (and has a light).....Other than that you will bang the heck out of your watch. I have heard of guys getting "De-Gloved" because of their watch (Metal ones) during ejection...the watch gets caught up and takes all the skin off of your hand...OUCH!....my plastic one will break away if need be.....
ea6bflyr

 

[webmaster]

No ejection seat in the P3... Though, those pictures they always show from "degloving" from rings getting taken off, "shudder", I hate those. One reason I NEVER wore my ring when shipboard.

 

[jarhead]

if you're gonna be flying, my advice is to get a watch that can keep at least two different times, so you can keep one set to your local time, and the other set to GMT time, it'll come in handy when you have to file a flight plan on a second or third leg of a x-country or trying to schedule Range/MOA/Low-Level Route with somebody in a different time zone ...

i use a Casio G-Shock

semper fi

 

[webmaster]

Amen to that, I set mine to ZULU two years ago, haven't changed it back since that deployment.

 

[EA-6B1]

Speakin' of ZULU. I see it all the time on Jag, but what does it mean exactly? Thanks. Sorry for the dumb ?

"For he who serves his fellows, is among his fellows greatest."
- Meteu -

 

[NuSnake]

its universal time...depending on what time zone youre in you add a number to whatever time it is.....here in CST we would add 6 hrs in standard time and 5 hrs in daylight savings time....so if it is 9am it would be 1400ZULU or 1500ZULU.
It is 11:30pm here now so it would be 0430ZULU

I think thats right someone correct me if I am wrong

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
--Edmund Burke

 

[EA-6B1]

Thanks for the clearance.

"For he who serves his fellows, is among his fellows greatest."
- Meteu -