About 12 years ago. I inadvertantly stumbled across the best watch ever made. ( for me ). For some unknown reason watches didn’t seem to last me very long. Goofing off in Kmart one day I noticed a Casio G Shock watch. I liked the look of it so I bought it. I think sometimes great products go unnoticed… They work so well. You just don’t think about them. Here it is 12 years later & the G Shock is running just as well as the day I bought it. A bit beat up… But I’ve never had a issue with it. It’s actually spoiled me. Being solar, no batteries, no winding… Just a good dependable watch… So much so I just bought another… Anyone else have a ‘old dependable’ they are loyal to?
I had a Scuba Diving model Casio for around 22 years, until Sears closed and I neglected to ask the watch repair man where he was going. So I had no place to get bands and batteries. It only took a new battery every 7 or 8 years, but the rubber watch bands get hard. I looked up a repair place in Sunnyvale, near by. While two of them tried to sell me a new one, a third installed a new band, which was flimsy and didn’t fit well. A month later, one of the posts broke, so I carried it in the watch pocket of my jeans. The other day it fell on the ceramic tile and the display disappeared.
A couple of years back, I thought it might be quitting when it only needed a new battery and I bought a used Casio, similar to the one shown at the top, on Ebay. It was bulkier but I liked its solar and radio features. It gradually gave out. I suspect the former owner noticed something was wrong with it and got rid of it before the problem became obvious.
Don’t care for analog watches - They don’t seem to offer any significant advantages over their digital counterparts, but do have plenty of extra mechanical parts to fail.
My favorite watch is the Casio A168 - Simple, reliable, inexpensive, compact and functional. Everything you need, and nothing you don’t. The EL backlight is a nice touch - Makes the entire display easy to see at a glance, in complete darkness.
I bought it with my first salary 15 years ago and the main reason that I still use it everyday is it’s made of titanium. It’s not scrach resistant (but the saphir is hopefully, there is a scratch anyway on the date, I still wonder what have scratched it I didn’t bring a precious stone around).
And it’s lightweight, the main reason I like it.
Mine would be a timex wind up that I bought in basic training a long time ago. It's the only watch I own. I don't wear it anymore but it's still around someplace and I'm sure it's still working. That watch has been around the world and back a few times and has sure seen some crazy stuff. If a watch could talk, it would have some stories to tell.
