Wristwatches: what do you wear when you're riding/around the yard?

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As title really.

I need something which is basically:-

- comfortable

- fastens easily on a cold morning with cold fingers!

- will withstand being dunked in a bucket of water fairly regularly and/or soaked while riding in the rain!

- nice clear dial: my preference is analogue rather than digital (i.e. I'm a dinosaur)

- comes in relatively cheap & cheerful at less than £20

So what do people wear?
 
My watch takes a hammering at work, so I buy cheap and dispose of them when they break. I buy a clear dial on a stretchy metal strap, so it can be moved up my arm when needed. £8 from the supermarket, usually last a year. Then keep a good one too in case I ever go out!:D
 
I have a cheap one that bought from the local tack shop for £9.99, its really for kids but I love it, has a white face and the second hand is a horse shoe, strap is sturdy plastic with horse heads on it. Have had it now for two years and still going strong.
 
I have an Oakley.....about £200 but worth every penny (was a birthday pressie) had it 8 years - a record for me, they usually last 6 months.
 
I bought a Breo black watch on the plane going on my hols this year and love it. It stretches over your hand, waterproof and since it was only £10 not bothered if it gets scratched!
 
I would agree with the Cassio - I got mine from Argos, certainly under £20 and lasts for years - first thing to break will be the strap. I have one with no strap that is still going strong and that was from about 8 years ago.

I rarely ever take mine off and it withstands water easily.
 
Citizen eco-drive. Ive had it about 9 years, its one of those that is charged by sunlight so never needs a new battery or winding. Perfect for me.

It had a metal strap when I got it but I bent the clasp and broke it, so its had leather replacements since then, which I find more comfortable anyway.
A watch repair man on the market changes the strap for me, the straps dont last very long, with dunking in water or being rasped etc. He always asks me what its like for keeping time as he thinks they are very inaccurate :D I always tell him as long as its 'roughly' right, its ok by me.
He disapproves of my lack of concern for the correct time :D
 
I have lost so many watches to washing horses during my ( rather long!) riding life that I now wear waterproof ones! The latest is a Nike, green rubbery affair, digital because I use it for Trec. It was about £12.00 from ebay. The problem with these plastic/rubbery ones is that eventually the straps just disintergrate and you can't mend them or put a new strap on like the old Timexes. The other problem with it is that I actually can't read it without my glasses on!
 
I usually, but not always,remember to take the expensive watch my OH bought me off when dealing with the horses.
My sister bought me a rubber 'bangle' type purple watch from a pound shop - admittedly she had to get 3 to find 2 reliable ones. I had mine in my dressing-gown pocket, when I decided to wash the dressing-gown. I realised what I'd done as soon as the water was flowing into the machine and decided to leave well alone, rather than risk damaging the machine for a £1 watch. When I opened the door at the end of the cycle, there was the watch sitting on the seal - and still working perfectly!
 
I have got a cheapo casio from Argos. It was about £12. they had an analogue one too, but I have gone for digital because it takes me too long to work out what the hands say otherwise :D
 
ticka ticka timex tra la la...from a supermarket for about £15, at least 2 years ago and still going strong. think it's a man's, nice big dial so easy to read etc.
 
Casio Baby G - it withstands daily plunges into buckets of water, and also doesn't mind being covered with hair, grime & dust. Had it a couple of years now, and it is still going strong.
 
If I averaged it out over the years since purchase and in constant use - I never take it off - my Tag could probably fit into your criteria. I was always the worlds worst for breaking watches but the Tag has survived being bashed into fences/chewed/repeatedly dunked in water/clonked with rebounding fencing tools.
Otherwise hubby has had a Timex Expedition that lasted through all types of hard farm work, he still has his Tag F1 (battered but working) and his current MTB watch - a Casio Gshock.
 
I wear a Tag Heuer for everything. The only watch I've ever had that has, so far, survived everything. Had it for ten years, so worked out cheaper than the ones I used to get through lol. Though servicing is silly money :-o
 
I've got a little gummy one (think its Rocksport?). That's good, no buckles, slips on like a bracelet, waterproof, and no glass face! And nice a light
 
MrsMozart said:
I wear a Tag Heuer for everything. The only watch I've ever had that has, so far, survived everything. Had it for ten years, so worked out cheaper than the ones I used to get through lol. Though servicing is silly money :-o
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Yep me too.
Daft pony managed to smash my wrist against the brick wall...it saved my wrist and the face wasn't even scratched. It's also suffered being covered in endless dusty hay, straw, submerged when washing ponies, a couple of bad falls and being dragged through a corn field.

Love my Tag :)
 
Ive got a Tag which Ive had 16 years, I never take it off, and its had a battering, but love it was its waterproof, and easy to see... but on saying that, the battery has just gone flat and I need to get it replaced, so Im wearing my other Tag one, not so fond of this one as its harder to see as its got a pale blue face, this ones an automatic one, and it never keep the correct time on me..grrr ..
 
I had one of the really cheap ones from ASDA literally like £4 it had a velcro strap the ones that go through the loop and back. I loved that watch I rode everyday in it, nights out (ha), did UOTC for three years in it, swam most days even did tough guy. Was completely gutted when the battery died went to get it changed and...there was too much mud in the back for them to change the battery :mad::(:(:(:(:(:(
 
Another vote for Casio Baby G - I am renowned for breaking anything and everything and somehow this watch has managed to keep going despite my best efforts to break it.
 
I have a Timex Expedition with a leather strap, which stands up to excessive batterings (doubly so since I wear it on the wrong hand) and was dirt cheap.
 
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