Hard to find a simple well lit analogue

space2ground1

Hi all,

I bought a basic swatch watch around 2 months ago but I'm struggling to get used to it. It ticks like a grandfather clock and the strap creaks like crazy. I also find that the glow in the dark function really doesn't work much.

Can anyone recommend a small, simple analogue with date function and a resin strap that has a decent level of visibility at night?

Thanks!

yimrsg

Timex indiglo?

unkel

space2ground1 wrote: »

It ticks like a grandfather clock

If you don't like the ticking noise, but do like an analogue, you need to get an automatic watch (as opposed to a quartz watch with a battery)

Wibbs

Or maybe a quartz with less of a tick from the stepping motor? They can vary a lot(as can mechanical. Some of mine you can hear ticking across the bedroom in the middle of the night). I've found the Seiko quartz tick the loudest as a general thing, or quartz watches with larger heavier hands so the stepping motor needs more of an impulse.

On the well lit throughout the night front, the two basic types are either electronically lit like the indiglo Yim mentioned or tritium based hands. The third and most common type of luminous material these days requires charging by an external light source. Some last a few hours, but they tend to burn brightly at first and quickly enough go dark. IMHO they don't come close to Tritium based lume.

I've had one of these Marathon Navigators. It's a quartz, but not a particularly loud one, the tritium tubes will stay bright in complete darkness for about twenty years and they're pretty waterproof and robust and tested and passed by the US military to their specifications.



200 quid mind you, so might be out of your budget.

unkel

Wibbs wrote: »

Or maybe a quartz with less of a tick from the stepping motor?

I didn't think of that!

Probably because I am allergic to unwanted noises, particularly at night time. I've banned all moving parts from my PC (apart from the additional storage hard disks)

pm.

Wibbs wrote: »

Or maybe a quartz with less of a tick from the stepping motor? They can vary a lot(as can mechanical. Some of mine you can hear ticking across the bedroom in the middle of the night). I've found the Seiko quartz tick the loudest as a general thing, or quartz watches with larger heavier hands so the stepping motor needs more of an impulse.

On the well lit throughout the night front, the two basic types are either electronically lit like the indiglo Yim mentioned or tritium based hands. The third and most common type of luminous material these days requires charging by an external light source. Some last a few hours, but they tend to burn brightly at first and quickly enough go dark. IMHO they don't come close to Tritium based lume.

I've had one of these Marathon Navigators. It's a quartz, but not a particularly loud one, the tritium tubes will stay bright in complete darkness for about twenty years and they're pretty waterproof and robust and tested and passed by the US military to their specifications.



200 quid mind you, so might be out of your budget.

I so want one of them... If only there was one for sale here!!!!

heroics

pm. wrote: »

I so want one of them... If only there was one for sale here!!!!

I nearly bought that one but my wife would kill me. no allowed buy anything before christmas

Wibbs

pm. wrote: »

I so want one of them... If only there was one for sale here!!!!

Yeah, you have to go on the interwebs for one, unless you know a chap or chappess in the US military…

pm.

heroics wrote: »

I nearly bought that one but my wife would kill me. no allowed buy anything before christmas

Same boat myself... It's Watches like that make me question why I got married