Add your work watches

I was Cop for 30 years. For the last 10 years of that I wore a Citizen Skyhawk

But I retired in 2014 and now I wear anything from my modest collection...dress, quartz or diver

Whilst in the Police service I was not afflicted with watch collecting!

That Skyhawk is a great work watch. Also the lume on that phoibos is awesome. 

I have mostly worn my Speedmaster Pro to my work, but I work in creative in gaming. The main thing that my work has affected in my watch choice is when I know I'll be typing a lot I tend to want a strap instead of bracelet. 😂

I wore a Victorinox INOX for work daily for about 7 years, I work outside and my job is very varied  and I needed something that could take an absolute battering and laugh it off,  which it did, however it is an absolute unit of a watch and I found that I could get the same durability and more practicality from a G Shock 5610 but with half the size, weight and cost, so I made the switch and haven't looked back!

The daily work watch:

The "fancy" daily work watch:

The "really fancy" daily work watch:

The "really not fancy" daily work watch:

The "real" daily work watch:

Context: I'm a construction project manager and wear a different watch depending on whether I'm spending the day at the site, at the office, or with the client.

Yep I've got several eco drives now. The skyhawk went about 12 years before I changed the capacitor battery.

That's my first phoibos. Did a review on it. Pretty bright lume..also its titanium so wears really light.

I am a Firefighter/Paramedic and I've worn this Casio Pathfinder (circa 2001 or so) 99% of the time. It was also my daily wear watch before the collecting bug bit me. I still wear it at wok most of the time. It wont die!  

Very cool collection 👍

I posted my work watch in my review. Here’s a snippet from that post:

I am a Biochemist spending much of my day in analytical chemistry laboratories, surrounded by instruments and dangerous caustics and corrosives. Working in a laboratory, the first thought is always safety, calling back to the founding of Ball Watch. The anti-magnetism is important for working with the instrumentation and the COSC certification aligns with the constant instrument calibrations we must perform before testing. The 904L steel stops the watch from rusting and the screw down crown keeps the vapors out of the watches inner workings. The tritium is a cool chemistry vibe, and because I helped to develop the Covid vaccine, and the Caring edition was launched to give us hope during lockdowns, this was and is the perfect watch for me!

https://www.watchcrunch.com/cornfedksboy/reviews/ball-engineer-iii-marvelight-caring-edition-40mm-review-22385

I prefer slimmer watches than dive watches as an example.

In all honesty old Seiko 5's float my boat as it were.

However I do work at times with largish batteries ie 2000kg 80v 900ah things for industrial lift trucks so...

I need to wear plastic things for those hence a couple of g shocks a really cheap sekonda g shock imitation and a Timex plastic think quite frequently adorn my wrist. 

Edit pic of the ones I wear to actually work rather than the other work that isn't really work lol

I appreciate G shocks for the weight and cost. They are truly tough.

I could imagine the bracelet on the keyboard getting very old very quickly 😂😂

Your review is what set this question niggling in my mind. I had never thought about the chemical resistance of a watch or what a biochemist might wear.

Those are a bit more than largish batteries 😂

This is the current rotation:

I started wearing G Shocks because a previous job could get rough at times and my Vaer field watch blew a pin and ended up on the floor twice.  Things are a lot less rough these days, and I find I prefer a dive watch at least some of the time.  The only real requirement is that it be able to get wet and not be expensive enough to worry about theft.

A resin G-Shock with an acrylic crystal would not last in my lab, and we have lots of 316 steal parts that are covered in rust. Most folks don’t wear watches in the lab for this reason. 

Your lab sounds as corrosive as the ocean 😂 my hands and my gear has been much happier since I moved up to the river.

I am currently using a casio data bank and 2 casio royales for work to handle the 11 or so daily alerts I need and the 3 timed breaks. I only wear the royales. The buttons on the data bank are too much of an attractive nuisance for my sleeves so it just sits on the desk. When I run out of batteries and/or if they break, I have backups and replacement batteries.

Wow, good idea. I never thought of that and I had to do task based billing in tenth of hour increments at my old firm. By the time I started collecting and had a chronograph, I had ditched time sheets and been in-house for well over a decade. 

My work watch wearing a suit at the firm so long ago was my trusty 2 toned DJ.  Now I don't even wear a collared shirt to work (unless it's a Hawaiian shirt) so my work watch depends how I feel when I roll out of bed (except for Speedy Tuesdays).

As a UPS driver I need something that is easy to read, low weight, and will handle the abuse of the job, so it is usually this Seiko srpg37 or my G shock awgm100.

I work as a commercial driver, 18 wheeler, flatbedder. So I really abuse my work watches as I stand outside spotting forklifts in the sun/rain wind/dust ect while getting loaded and throwing straps/chains to secure my loads. So a G-Shock is my go to work watch. I wear both a GA-700 model and GA-100 model (recently gifted away need to buy another) regularly. Not only do they stand up to the use and abuse but I really like the easy to read day of the week and monthly date for doing paperwork and keeping up with what day of the week it is (after several 14 hour days or more strung together you can lose track of what day of the week it is lol). I also like the analog time telling of the watches for when I am out of the truck as I dont regularly take my phone out of the cab to avoid it getting broken. I have also worn my Dan Henry 1945 no date if I am doing daily cross timezone runs as the dual timezone bezel makes it easy to tell time in both timezones at a glance (but I prefer my G-Shock(s)). I actually prefer the GA-100 over the GA-700 because of the smaller size because it fits under the cuffs of leather work gloves easier than the GA-700. I have also borrowed a GA-2100 (the famous Casioak) but found the digital date window too small for the vibration of rough  road makes it hard to see/read the date on it at a glance.

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GA-100MB-1A/

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GA-700SK-1A/

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1238/1014/products/Dan_Henry_1945_WWII_Chronograph_Black_41mm_No_Date.png?v=1651538047

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GA-2100-1A1/

My go to work watch(s) from my Army Military Police , later Army helicopter pilot and even later on as a NY cop for 28 years was a Casio G-shock.  If I couldn't get to my baton, a good back slap with my G-shock did the trick !  I let a guy use my back-up G shock in the Academy and never saw it again.  I guess he liked it too much.  My retiree watches are now Invicta's.

Thank you for your service. I know a hockey puck hurts I could only imagine if it was strapped to a wrist 😂

I wore this SNK807 to work for a quite a few years. I went through a brief period where several of my quartz watches either had the movement die, or the batteries would drain quickly. I was fed up, so I bought this little automatic Seiko for about $60. The Hardlex eventually got all scratched up, along with the case, so I polished the case out with a dremel, changed the handset, and put in a DD sapphire. That was a mistake. Since the new crystal stuck out above the bezel, I somehow managed to scuff it and gouge a piece out. The movement started acting erratic, I got tired of doing the Seiko shuffle every Monday, and fiddling with the world's smallest crown ever was frustrating, so I decided to upgrade. 

I bought an SRPD55 at a great price, swapped the dial for my 807 (because I love it), changed the chapter ring, hands, bezel, insert, and strap, and voila! New work watch. I work as a truck driver in evenings and at night, but also help out as a ramp rat, so the 12HR bezel lets me keep track of Zulu time (for flight and connecting truck route paperwork), the chunky hands are more legible in the dark, the water resistance is improved (since I'm out in the rain a lot), and the 4R36 lets me handwind it a few turns over the weekend to keep it going. No more Seiko shuffle. The lack of a screw down crown is a plus here, since I can quickly wind the crown without unthreading it first. It's the ideal work watch for me, until Christmas.... 

This happened. I finally got one. I've worn it to work a few times to try it out, and it meets most of my needs. Tough, water resistant, keeps track of multiple time zones, etc. The autolight feature is my favorite, though, especially when I'm driving in the dark. That's what separates it from my AE1200. The only thing that keeps me from making this my permanent work watch is that I can't view current time, Zulu time (plus the offset of all other hours without having to think about it), and the day/date at the same time. Otherwise, it's perfect. I'm also not ready to beat the hell out of it, either. I mean, I just got it! 

BTW, that blue Citizen Promaster in your pic is also on my short list. 👌

I work in a machining area of a high volume manufacturing plant.

Damn, that Type II is fine! 😍

Working from home and working from office

I love how you propose built a work watch, that's amazing 👍 all the mods make perfect sense. Do let my picture trick you the Promaster is big it's just on my wrist next to a 60mm dive computer that isn't hanging over the edges. 😂

Yeah, sorry for that lengthy "history of" my work watches. 😂 I forgot to mention that I had also changed the Hardlex in the 55 for a flat sapphire, and the day wheel for a Kanji/English one. I really wanted a German day wheel to go with the Flieger dial, but those are nearly impossible to find. All the extra take off parts will eventually find their way to other mods.

  The new doctor I saw the other day was wearing that exact Citizen, though I don't think he was really into watches. It's been "in my cart" for a while, but other things unfortunately keep popping up. 

I work in a grocery store. Wore this yesterday and will wear it tomorrow. Serica 4512 WMB version.