Work Work Work (Watch)

Work Work Work Watch

Hi all,

Today I want to talk about my new, and old, work watch and do a slight comparison. The new one is the famous Casio GW-M5610U-1ER, and the old one is also a Casio GBD-200-2ER, that I shall now refer to black and blue (just like my leg after a recent fall)

A work watch is the most important watch in all of our collections, I would argue. It has to function as intended and although horses for courses depending upon your profession, it has a fair few boxes to tick. On WC the posts I like the most are someone showing an old beat up Casio or Timex explorer that is dinted, bent, scratched and still pulling its weight, a recent Pulsar post also springs to mind. These posts are more interesting to me than any shiny new Rolex or Omega because they show a life lived to the full, not that I don’t like beat up expensive watches ! Another recent post was a son from Japan talking about his Dads Rolex. His dad was a sparky (electrician) and used it every day for many years, now that to me is a proper watch.

For me a new watch is a considered buy, mainly because I don’t have the money to splash out on a whim or the latest flavour of the month. So I will research and compare and spend hours on the internet thinking about it, and that's half the fun. Black cost me £99 and Blue £115, and I have a strict ‘one in – one out’ policy at the moment so Blue will be on a famous web site within a few days. I see many on WC spending a fortune on watches, sometimes in a few months, and good luck to them. I am not in that position so everything I get has to pass my personal grading that is different to us all.

So my criteria for a work watch is that it has to be robust and last, as accurate as can be and ideally a set and forget type of watch that you bang on in the morning and get on with the day. No winding, setting or changing the date for me in my everyday watch. I also don’t want to worry about it in case it gets knocked in the normal day to day stuff we all do. At weekends it has to wash the car, do the gardening and take out the bins. Both Black and Blue excel at this and go above in many ways.

So why the change? Well I am an WC’er and got the itch! but as above had to be considered. So the new Black does everything I want. I love the fact that its solar and mutiband and two insignificant things that appeal to me is that it gives out a ‘beep’ on the hour every hour and the date is in the UK format that should be universal, after all we invented time (joke). Its quality is above the Blue and somehow its more comfy, I don’t know I am wearing it.

But I will miss Blue when its gone. I did a LOT of research into negative displays and the Blue is head and shoulders above anything I have seen. Its readable from almost any angle. But it didn’t have solar or multiband and somehow it was not as comfy on my wrist, I knew it was there all the time, and was either too loose or too tight, Most of its many features were unused by me, I don’t need 5 work out timers as well, I don’t do 5 work outs. But it was a solid friend for a year and will be missed.

So that's my post, mainly about the importance of your everyday work watch. I would love to hear your thoughts and what your everyday watch is and why !

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read over the latest £5000 marvel.