Kitchen Watch: Do you have a favorite designated?
I'd like to know from all of you foodies out there (you know who you are) if you have a favorite or designated kitchen watch? My kitchen watches have changed over the years, at one time my 6309 served for many years. Clearly, any watch with a rotating bezel can work for timing in the kitchen.
I introduce you to my current designated kitchen watch; a Seiko Astron Chronograph 8x series. This watch as served for several years, stored on a sunny window sill in the kitchen, and ready to employ at once when needed. I like this watch a lot because it is titanium and very light, almost toylike weight wise. I can see it without readers on but I use the readers in the kitchen after a kitchen disaster from skipping them (another story). I also like the chronograph feature, and the fact that I can simply wash the watch under the faucet after a cooking frenzy.
My other half thinks I'm weird. If you are a weirdo like me, please share and discuss your cooking watch.......
That’s a nice Astron!! I don’t cook as much anymore but I do love eating!! 😄
And yes you are weirdo 😂😉
Even though I cook a lot and I love watches, I‘m ashamed to say that I usually use the timer on my phone mainly because it allows me to not worry about what I’m timing (I’m very easily distracted). That said, if I’m wearing a digital watch, I’m definetly timing everything with it haha.
Edit: That is a lovely watch and I really like the idea of keeping it in the kitchen for cooking purposes
I currently use my solar Casioak when I am cooking or doing housework 😂
I have spent 20 years working in restaurant kitchens as a cook/chef and my favorite watch to wear while cooking is a Tag professional quartz from the mid nineties That my dad passed down to me. He was also a chef and this tag spent many years in professional kitchens. i do still use my phone as a timer often though, when you have a lot of things to track a good loud alarm helps.
on a side note I did have a gen1 Apple Watch that is great with a timer complication on it. it held up for about 3 years of heavy abuse in my last job as a chef.
I don’t have one specifically, but it must be a Chronograph for obvious reasons (I guess?)
😂😂🙏
I spent 25 years working in restaurants before getting my master's degree and becoming a community college professor. My kitchen mainstay was a G Shock DW5600.
My go to work watch, rock the Duro on Sundays.
The Glycine Combat Sub 39. It's an all-rounder in all respects, and the dive bezel comes in handy when I cook pasta, fry steaks or whatever in the kitchen requires me to keep track of time.
I spent 25 years working in restaurants before getting my master's degree and becoming a community college professor. My kitchen mainstay was a G Shock DW5600.
With battle scars!
The Glycine Combat Sub 39. It's an all-rounder in all respects, and the dive bezel comes in handy when I cook pasta, fry steaks or whatever in the kitchen requires me to keep track of time.
Dive watches work in the kitchen, love that Glycine!
My go to work watch, rock the Duro on Sundays.
The Duro is a great dive watch! Heck, it would be a good kitchen watch itself.
I don’t have one specifically, but it must be a Chronograph for obvious reasons (I guess?)
Dive watches with rotating bezel work just fine as well.
Have you still got the 6309
Have you still got the 6309
I absolutely do and I still wear it occasionally, so comfortable.
We use this Favre-Leuba marine clock I inherited from my Dad (and the oven timer). It’s been in the family about 50 years and turned 100 years old this year. I recently had it serviced for the first time in 10 year. Service cost $132 and it’s now running at + 1.5 sec/day. Oh, and it has a power reserve of one week.
Lamb shanks about to be slow cooked. The master chef is in the background (I’m the apprentice).
Yeh ok the watch is really nice…..BUT THE FOOD LOOKS INCREDIBLE!!!!
Thank you! Tasted pretty good as well.
We use this Favre-Leuba marine clock I inherited from my Dad (and the oven timer). It’s been in the family about 50 years and turned 100 years old this year. I recently had it serviced for the first time in 10 year. Service cost $132 and it’s now running at + 1.5 sec/day. Oh, and it has a power reserve of one week.
Lovely set up!
We use this Favre-Leuba marine clock I inherited from my Dad (and the oven timer). It’s been in the family about 50 years and turned 100 years old this year. I recently had it serviced for the first time in 10 year. Service cost $132 and it’s now running at + 1.5 sec/day. Oh, and it has a power reserve of one week.
Love that kitchen clock, wowza!
Dive watches with rotating bezel work just fine as well.
Yeah, but the quick press of a button works more seamless and quicker for me. In addition I don’t own a single rotating bezel watch 😃
I use this watch I got years ago as a free gift for purchasing The Aircraft of the World subscription. As weird as it seems, I've always really liked this super-duper aviator special which makes for a great kitchen timer.
I use this watch I got years ago as a free gift for purchasing The Aircraft of the World subscription. As weird as it seems, I've always really liked this super-duper aviator special which makes for a great kitchen timer.
I wonder if that is a Timex private label watch or from one of the asian brands. Do you know what the movement is?
I wonder if that is a Timex private label watch or from one of the asian brands. Do you know what the movement is?
The movement says PAM352, and is also found in an old Soviet brand called Montana with a melody alarm. I suspect it could be Chinese because of the long-single beep of the hourly chime (but the movement itself appears as well-built as many Casios). I will say, despite being an all plastic free gift watch, it has provided about 25 years of service at this point and the band is still pliable with no cracks. Go figure!
The movement says PAM352, and is also found in an old Soviet brand called Montana with a melody alarm. I suspect it could be Chinese because of the long-single beep of the hourly chime (but the movement itself appears as well-built as many Casios). I will say, despite being an all plastic free gift watch, it has provided about 25 years of service at this point and the band is still pliable with no cracks. Go figure!
That's really cool thanks for sharing this, I'll see what I can dig up on it.
I barely cook, mostly heat up, and for this I need a watch/clock that makes a kerfuffle when the time's up. Because I'm not all the time in the kitchen doing kitchen-stuff, glancing at the relationship between my watches hands and its bezel, I do other stuff, often forgetting about the cooking. So, a watch with a rotating bezel just won't do it. For cooking I use:
Currently I have a SKMEI on order that supposedly has a timer function. That is meant to take on some kitchen duties.
Mines were always Casios best remembered.
like many here, I worked at restaurants as a line cook during undergrad - but my watch journey started in grad school. I still cook a lot at home and i wear the only watch I own that has a steel bracelet, haha (I deep/stir fry a lot so I don't want any oil splatter on any of my leather straps)
Whatever she wants to wear
I wear my G-Shock.