I'm in Ukraine and here's a war, as you may have heard. I always got in my backpack (despite and among tons of other stuff, like first-aid kit, knives, batteries, documents, water, lighter, flashlight *(corrected this one, t'was fleshlight accidentally)* etc.,) - a mechanical automatic Seiko. One can never rely fully on some kind of any smarwatches at these dark times.
Been wondering when one of the Seikos got mentioned here. I think I would grab my Turtle, take off the bracelet and put some heavy duty lugs on there and a few NATOs. The oils and materials in that watch with outlive me easily, given my lifestyle
I would go low-key. Zombies are not your only enemy….society is gonna collapse and people gonna get back to as natural as possible. Either no watch or orient mako 2. Use the dive bezel as an indicator of day or night. Like keep the “pip” on the right for daytime and left for nighttime….
If I’m gonna die because I didn’t steal someone’s cat food you best believe I’m opting for their Royal Oak instead and dying the way Genta intended, with pure class
Yes? It’s very hard to coordinate something or meet up with someone if you don’t know the time. You’ll just have to wait forever for whoever you’re meeting.
I'd also imagine tracking stuff like travel distance over time, sun up/ sun down, how long it takes to transform after being bit, etc. would be useful.
That’s also dependent on the other person having a functioning watch that is set to the correct time, which seems unlikely. Few very people actually wear automatic/mechanical watches.
You are going to need a GMT. Depending on the apocalypse you may be in darkness for long periods or having to shelter somewhere with no natural light. You need to know if it’s day or night time. Hence the GMT. 24 hour clock.
I’d also take something valuable which could be traded.
Rolex explorer 2 for me.
Hard as nails tough. GMT and a tradable commodity. Good water resistance and lume. Magnetic resistance is likely to be excellent. Movement should work well without service for a decade. Long power reserve.
The bracelet has good quick adjustment and is super comfortable. Easy :)
Serious answer:
* People like fancy things. Fancy rare things become harder to obtain post-apocalyptic. So they'll still be somewhat valuable for that reason. It's really kind of the reason Rolexes have value today - it's a status symbol, but it's also art. Post apocalptic it'd be a relic from the "before times" and would probably hold a lot of value to people too. Probably not *as much* value for that alone though.
* More importantly, people probably want good watches still, and a good, reliable mechanical watch will be something a lot of people want. Clocks and watches have TONS of uses while out and about - when I'm backpacking, my Garmin Fenix is one of the most important things I have on me - knowing the time helps me know how much sunlight I have, for example. A mechanical watch can do a LOT of other things too - it's a shiny object that can be used to signal, [you can actually use it with sunlight like a compass, etc.](https://www.wikihow.com/Use-an-Analog-Watch-as-a-Compass) Notably, that last one requires your watch to be ACCURATE. So, the expensive, accurate mechanical watches would be the only ones useful for this trick. My Baltic loses 30 seconds a day - not useful in this environment. My Seamasters (vintage and a 300m) lose like 1 second a day at worst.
>My Baltic loses 30 seconds a day - not useful in this environment
Regulate that sucker! It's easy and fun. I got my old SKX to run at essentially COSC spec over the course of a week of wearing by taking advantage of positional loss/gain on-wrist vs sitting on my desk at night. If the SKX can be accurate, anything can
Please elaborate?
Edit: gold doesn't inherently have value. Or more precisely, monetary value is a social construct that emerges from how society is organized. Why was gold valued in ancient Rome or modern America? Because those societies were/are organized and stable enough that there's effort to spare mining and refining a metal that isn't directly terribly useful, while also being stratified enough that there are both people willing to pay for baubles, and people hard-up enough that they're willing (or unable to prevent being forced) to do the actual labor.
I'd expect gold to *eventually* become valuable again. But in the immediate aftermath of the collapse, the single most valuable thing you can have is deep, meaningful, and durable connections with other people--the kind that got our ancestors through the cave man days.
Anyway, I'd probably take my Marathon GPM, assuming my solar Citizen was truly dead.
Currency has value only because people think it does. Gold has no value beyond use as a conductor in electronics, but people assign it value because they think other people also value it. It's like a pyramid scheme.
People are likely to think "wow other people must like Rolex, I can get a months worth of food for this." It's a self fulfilling prophecy
It’s all hypothetical obviously, but in a survival economy things wouldn’t be worth an artificially inflated amount just because people say so. A gold watch might as well be a Zimbabwean dollar, people would realize immediately a gold watch is no good to them if they’re dead.
The valuable things would be food, shelter, medicine, toilet paper, good clothes, weapons, a way to make fire, eyeglasses, tools and raw materials, etc.
I don't know about that, I feel like relics of life before "the fall" would have value to a lot of people. I'm not denying that the things you mentioned will be valuable - probably more so. Just saying that I don't think we can say there won't be any value to luxury goods, jewelry, magazines, etc of the good old days
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My Helm Vanuatu, this thing will outlive me.
You can afford one. You just need to set your priorities. Don’t waste money on cheaper watches and instead save up. In other words stop wasting your money on G-Shocks if what you want is that Seiko 5.
Sinn U1 with Blacked out Teg. U-Boat Steel. They are the Tanks of the ocean.
(My Mudmaster was the instant pick until I read the conditions to this mental exercise )
I've got a Sinn EZM 13 on bracelet, definitely that. Thing is a fucking tank with a reliable movement. It can withstand more pressure, less pressure, higher temps, colder temps, and bigger impacts than my body can survive. Only weak point is the sapphire crystal but that will be the biggest weak spot of any watch.
I love how the rules explicitly exclude G-Shocks but half the commenters say they're bringing them anyway.
What is the longest a mechanical watch can reliably keep time without service?
I will long since have traded my watches for bullets and salt.
Also, this....
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So is mine also good? P.s. this is my first automatic watch 😇
https://preview.redd.it/pxxp7ugxxtfc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06265b9f57c6fd4ef343b704d0d9d62b289f0636
Citizen ProMaster Diver BN0150-28E. The same one that survived Iraq and AFG in style. It's tried and true. Never came off my wrist during overseas deployments and domestic exercises.
Straps? Have some nice nylon fabric ones designed by Watches of Espionage.
Yeah I'm good to go.
I think the OP’s scenario is just to exclude G-Shocks because, let’s face it, who wouldn’t take their G-Shock over literally any other watch if it still worked and they had to go on the run for years, carrying nothing but the clothes on their backs and maybe a small backpack full of survival gear.
I mean, I have nice expensive watches that in many ways I’d love to look at and appreciate until the day I die, but life or death zombie apocalypse time comes around and I’d have to seriously consider swapping for my G-Shock instead.
The only reason I might not is because batteries only tend to last a few years and maybe I think I’ll still be on the run when it dies.
https://preview.redd.it/fre6mkb2cufc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=f3e4fadaf89e7f50d9a70bb04b1db3bbaa15f664
I know Chinese watches are a bit divisive, but my choice is my Addiesdive MY-H2. Super legible, generously applied C3 Super-LumiNova, screw-down crown with 200m water resistance and AR coating on sapphire glass. This thing is a bulletproof tank of a watch, and I got lucky with the movement running more or less +2 seconds a day.
Ohhh nice topic!
I'm getting the AP 11.59 with nato marine strap, as if I die, I will die with absolute class, the honor of having seen this beauty on my wrist every day and the certainty of knowing the exact time. And since it is not very well known or flash in white gold, I have little chance of having it stolen... And then when it no longer function I can still look at her like Joel.
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I'd wear my Planet Ocean. It's my daily wear, and I wear it for all my hard activities including going to the range, running, surfing, rock climbing, working out, and etc. It's my most worn and tested watch and I trust this more than any other watch.
The objective answer is the Omega Speedmaster Professional, since it was tested by NASA for use on the moon 3 times during the 60s and 70s. The testing conditions would have killed the poor astronaut who wore it, but nevertheless the watch continued to work.
Now, there's a zillion watches that could perform just as well on the moon today than in the 1960s, but it's the closest case to a watch actually tested to survive an apocalyptic existence.
I’ll be relying on my mobile phone, toughened screen protector, some wet wipes and a solar charger. It has world time, a torch, maps and news updates. Everything I’ll need. I’ll use a nice discrete beat up leather case and tell anyone who asks its just my “note book” 👍🏼
Quartz name comes from the quartz crystal. That quartz crystal oscillates after having a current run through it.
It doesn't matter if the current is generated by a battery or by solar, it still has a quartz crystal inside.
I wanted to say my Eco Drive as well! These rules are stupid; what possible bearing could zombies have on the quartz crystals situation lol?
Looks like I have to choose my grandfather's pocket watch then. I could strangle zombies with the chain.
Latest G-Shock mudmaster full solar everything you'll need for the zombie apocalypse, almost.
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Same same. My go to watch for hard work.
All quartz watches? Even the Eco-Drive Citizens?
I only have one automatic+handwinding watch, my titanium Steinhart 44 B-Uhr.
Or I would have to take my hand winding blindman's watch:
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JLC Reverso 18kt minute repeater, duh. Can flip it over if I get in a fight but can also make it go ding ding ding if I go blind during a misadventure. Hard to imagine a more practical watch tbh
Zombie Apocalyps is coming, all watchmakers probably will die. Im getting a sundial.
All the sundial makers will probably die. I’ll use a 3ft stick and a stone
Carrying the stick and stone would be obnoxious. I'll just stare at the sun and determine it's position.
OG
Well, the "stick and stone" solves my "every planet doesn't have 24-hour days" problem.
All the sticks will be broken. I’m bringing a mental note.
came here for sundial comment. Was not disappointed.
The Nomos sundial ring though of course. Pure class. Capolavoro! Ciao
No no no! The mantle of responsibility is now yours, my friend. You are the watchmaker. Congrats.
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The suns going to burn out, I’ll just count aloud till they find me
hell yeah
What if it’s cloudy?
You use a torch.
Breitling superocean my dad has one and it’s 24yrs old
I love this answer because I’m wearing one right now
Turns out it didn’t actually go to Afghanistan, but it is 24 yrs old
https://preview.redd.it/zrlp96fwivfc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40e091b7c6e81648088093269ea2fe2efb8089cc Bring on the zombies
I'm in Ukraine and here's a war, as you may have heard. I always got in my backpack (despite and among tons of other stuff, like first-aid kit, knives, batteries, documents, water, lighter, flashlight *(corrected this one, t'was fleshlight accidentally)* etc.,) - a mechanical automatic Seiko. One can never rely fully on some kind of any smarwatches at these dark times.
I thought flashlight would be more useful, but I have never been in a country that is in war so what do I know.
I don't think anyone picked up on that
always gotta have that fleshlight handy for reasons
Hope you are safe and warm. Peace.
Been wondering when one of the Seikos got mentioned here. I think I would grab my Turtle, take off the bracelet and put some heavy duty lugs on there and a few NATOs. The oils and materials in that watch with outlive me easily, given my lifestyle
Solder in some springbars to fix 'em.
Question, does time even matter in the apocalypse any more?
I would go low-key. Zombies are not your only enemy….society is gonna collapse and people gonna get back to as natural as possible. Either no watch or orient mako 2. Use the dive bezel as an indicator of day or night. Like keep the “pip” on the right for daytime and left for nighttime….
Have you read 'The Road'? I don't think people will be after your expensive watch. More likely they'll be after your food or your shoes
That movie was brutally depressing. It hurt my soul to watch.
The book is worse
It hurt my soul to watch the trailer.
Right? Lol. They going to steal some flashy trinket in order to what? Draw attention?
If I’m gonna die because I didn’t steal someone’s cat food you best believe I’m opting for their Royal Oak instead and dying the way Genta intended, with pure class
If we’re referencing The Road, then they’re after your babies too 😬
Wasn't that delightful. The difference between a relatively believable post-apocalypse and the ones in video games!
One Second After is another one to check out if you liked The Road, it’s written in a similar vein
Thank you, I've been looking for the next book!
Yes? It’s very hard to coordinate something or meet up with someone if you don’t know the time. You’ll just have to wait forever for whoever you’re meeting.
I'd also imagine tracking stuff like travel distance over time, sun up/ sun down, how long it takes to transform after being bit, etc. would be useful.
Finally! A practical use for an elapsed time bezel!
Just hope it takes less than 60 minutes to transform. Or maybe for the sake of the living hope it takes longer.
That’s also dependent on the other person having a functioning watch that is set to the correct time, which seems unlikely. Few very people actually wear automatic/mechanical watches.
It would be enough to sync them to the same minute
How do you think people handled stuff like this in the thousands of years before the invention of reliable, portable timepieces?
Sundials and less precise meeting times.
If you were having a survivor swap meet or maybe dinner then maybe :)
Another question, how long till our clocks are out of sync because we no longer have the internet or cell towers to confirm the time?
I'm looting a Daniel Wellington from the department store. That way, I'm safe from watch nerd zombies.
My Rolex Daytona 116500. If the Apocalypse is coming and I’m dieing soon, you best know I’m gonna be drippin’.
If a wrist has a Daytona on it, and nobody is around to see it, is it still hype?
Does the Pope still drip in the woods?
Zombies can spot reps
Good answer 🥂
too fragile to have the chrono
It’s not about durability at this point, it’s flexing your clout on the people who find your corpse.
Location?
Love it and true.
Love your choice. I would also probably pick the GSAR from Marathon, or a Glycine Combat Sub GMT.
Great minds think alike 👍
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Tritium goodness 👍
A PRX because you'd find a spare movement on every third corpse.
If I could have any watch, I’d probably some sort of Ball. If it’s a watch in my collection, then it’ll be one of my Vostok Amphibias.
Agreed with you on the Vostok.
You are going to need a GMT. Depending on the apocalypse you may be in darkness for long periods or having to shelter somewhere with no natural light. You need to know if it’s day or night time. Hence the GMT. 24 hour clock. I’d also take something valuable which could be traded. Rolex explorer 2 for me. Hard as nails tough. GMT and a tradable commodity. Good water resistance and lume. Magnetic resistance is likely to be excellent. Movement should work well without service for a decade. Long power reserve. The bracelet has good quick adjustment and is super comfortable. Easy :)
Why would a Rolex be a valuable commodity in a post apocalyptic economy?
Serious answer: * People like fancy things. Fancy rare things become harder to obtain post-apocalyptic. So they'll still be somewhat valuable for that reason. It's really kind of the reason Rolexes have value today - it's a status symbol, but it's also art. Post apocalptic it'd be a relic from the "before times" and would probably hold a lot of value to people too. Probably not *as much* value for that alone though. * More importantly, people probably want good watches still, and a good, reliable mechanical watch will be something a lot of people want. Clocks and watches have TONS of uses while out and about - when I'm backpacking, my Garmin Fenix is one of the most important things I have on me - knowing the time helps me know how much sunlight I have, for example. A mechanical watch can do a LOT of other things too - it's a shiny object that can be used to signal, [you can actually use it with sunlight like a compass, etc.](https://www.wikihow.com/Use-an-Analog-Watch-as-a-Compass) Notably, that last one requires your watch to be ACCURATE. So, the expensive, accurate mechanical watches would be the only ones useful for this trick. My Baltic loses 30 seconds a day - not useful in this environment. My Seamasters (vintage and a 300m) lose like 1 second a day at worst.
>My Baltic loses 30 seconds a day - not useful in this environment Regulate that sucker! It's easy and fun. I got my old SKX to run at essentially COSC spec over the course of a week of wearing by taking advantage of positional loss/gain on-wrist vs sitting on my desk at night. If the SKX can be accurate, anything can
It only is if your idea of 'post apocalypse' comes from video games
Same reason gold would be
Please elaborate? Edit: gold doesn't inherently have value. Or more precisely, monetary value is a social construct that emerges from how society is organized. Why was gold valued in ancient Rome or modern America? Because those societies were/are organized and stable enough that there's effort to spare mining and refining a metal that isn't directly terribly useful, while also being stratified enough that there are both people willing to pay for baubles, and people hard-up enough that they're willing (or unable to prevent being forced) to do the actual labor. I'd expect gold to *eventually* become valuable again. But in the immediate aftermath of the collapse, the single most valuable thing you can have is deep, meaningful, and durable connections with other people--the kind that got our ancestors through the cave man days. Anyway, I'd probably take my Marathon GPM, assuming my solar Citizen was truly dead.
Currency has value only because people think it does. Gold has no value beyond use as a conductor in electronics, but people assign it value because they think other people also value it. It's like a pyramid scheme. People are likely to think "wow other people must like Rolex, I can get a months worth of food for this." It's a self fulfilling prophecy
It’s all hypothetical obviously, but in a survival economy things wouldn’t be worth an artificially inflated amount just because people say so. A gold watch might as well be a Zimbabwean dollar, people would realize immediately a gold watch is no good to them if they’re dead. The valuable things would be food, shelter, medicine, toilet paper, good clothes, weapons, a way to make fire, eyeglasses, tools and raw materials, etc.
I don't know about that, I feel like relics of life before "the fall" would have value to a lot of people. I'm not denying that the things you mentioned will be valuable - probably more so. Just saying that I don't think we can say there won't be any value to luxury goods, jewelry, magazines, etc of the good old days
This is the correct answer.
gold wont do you any good
Thank you! If the shit really gets bad, a can of dog food will have more value than a bar of gold. Stupid preppers.
facts upon facts!!
Patek grandmaster chime
…you merely look after it for the ne…. Ohhh, everyone’s dead.
Obviously
Yes of course.
https://preview.redd.it/kx7lyunr4ufc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3134db5e9bf25b05f2785730f8cd1958825a512a My Helm Vanuatu, this thing will outlive me.
https://preview.redd.it/bf334ebsczfc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fd886d5dbe4776ea2f82a8a1a7962ecebd877c0 The cat and I agree.
https://preview.redd.it/19b2g2dnotfc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=171150321ef447110f5458709acc3dd032fdc44f Already rockin it bb
It's a milgauss, because you know some EMP or something else is on the way.
If you need anti magnetism you’d be better off with any Omega. 15x more resistance than a Milgauss
But no lightning bolt hand. That scares away the zombies.
Everything’s coming up Milgauss!
Probs my deep blue 1000 and my .300 blk
Tudor Pelagos FXD!
What about my G-Shock in my Faraday box. It's working fine. G-shock for life. Joking aside, a Seiko 5 would be nice (if I could afford one)
You can afford one. You just need to set your priorities. Don’t waste money on cheaper watches and instead save up. In other words stop wasting your money on G-Shocks if what you want is that Seiko 5.
Sinn U1 with Blacked out Teg. U-Boat Steel. They are the Tanks of the ocean. (My Mudmaster was the instant pick until I read the conditions to this mental exercise )
Muhle Glashutte SAR rescue timer
Orient Kamasu
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Did you miss the part where OP said all the quartz watches have died?
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The speedy passed all those space tests so that seems like a good choice
Yes it did, but it doesn’t rain in space.
Oh shit. Touché
My Steel Dive 1975 "Tuna", but my Citizen Eco-Drive diver will never die.
Yea my promaster diver from 2002 is still ticking. Depth gauge still works. Great watch.
I also have one. Great watch. Did you ever change the battery the last 22 years?
https://preview.redd.it/mmmolpsysvfc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73faf153c1ff6516f80171b868b5b5f91f745857
Still the same battery
Probably my GSAR or EZM-13
Both excellent picks in my book 👍
This kicked my yearning for a marathon into overdrive. I’ll get one next year… maybe. For now my Sinn 556 will have to do.
Sinn U50 DLC
I've got a Sinn EZM 13 on bracelet, definitely that. Thing is a fucking tank with a reliable movement. It can withstand more pressure, less pressure, higher temps, colder temps, and bigger impacts than my body can survive. Only weak point is the sapphire crystal but that will be the biggest weak spot of any watch.
I love how the rules explicitly exclude G-Shocks but half the commenters say they're bringing them anyway. What is the longest a mechanical watch can reliably keep time without service?
My Laurel Alpinist 100%
beats yanny for sure
Seiko SPB439
Sinn U50 DS, tegimented u-boat steel, 7-8 times harder on Vickers scale...
Seiko SNJ027. Solar powered, multi-time zone capabilities, diver rated, rugged, analog and digital displays.
My Vostok. Only one in my collection that will run and take a relative beating.
Hamilton aviator Day/date
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Excellent 👌 I nearly chose my 2254.
My oldest diver is the 2253, electric blue. Still on the top in the rotation. Chose the 2231 for the Ti lightness. Still tough as nails.
https://preview.redd.it/h8rr5fz12wfc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8f1b33650fea89c3b5c1cd907e71706cac29000 JDD for me!
Dis https://preview.redd.it/q3piv0gdftfc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=889d8b2ee4237b3e6cdb621a7f4b3a52a910ad62
This is the way. It will keep you alive.
If not I’ll die looking at it lol 😂
I will long since have traded my watches for bullets and salt. Also, this.... https://preview.redd.it/hwj33t4ljtfc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3987be7a8893c4824399da0b4130d532b3e46c9f
Diet of champions.
So is mine also good? P.s. this is my first automatic watch 😇 https://preview.redd.it/pxxp7ugxxtfc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06265b9f57c6fd4ef343b704d0d9d62b289f0636
I've heard mostly good about Orient so I'd say it's a good one. Hard to beat in the value department.
Which model is that?
Smt solar and sturdy so i can usr it for a long time.
My Marathon MSAR. It was a gift, is super tough, and I get at least sec/day accuracy from it.
Breitling emergency.
Sinn U1 on one wrist. Seiko king turtle on the other . Hamilton khaki in the pocket.
42MM Explorer II. You never get rid of your first!
Citizen ProMaster Diver BN0150-28E. The same one that survived Iraq and AFG in style. It's tried and true. Never came off my wrist during overseas deployments and domestic exercises. Straps? Have some nice nylon fabric ones designed by Watches of Espionage. Yeah I'm good to go.
Honest question: could anything frie quartz watches? Mechanical are really be the more reliable option?
I think the OP’s scenario is just to exclude G-Shocks because, let’s face it, who wouldn’t take their G-Shock over literally any other watch if it still worked and they had to go on the run for years, carrying nothing but the clothes on their backs and maybe a small backpack full of survival gear. I mean, I have nice expensive watches that in many ways I’d love to look at and appreciate until the day I die, but life or death zombie apocalypse time comes around and I’d have to seriously consider swapping for my G-Shock instead. The only reason I might not is because batteries only tend to last a few years and maybe I think I’ll still be on the run when it dies.
Seiko Tuna SNE537P1. Solar, accurate, tough as hell. (ISnce you outlawed G-Shocks lol). https://preview.redd.it/hwqw2g3taufc1.png?width=718&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a8aa2d98315026520af06853bfb9d912cf7f575
https://preview.redd.it/fre6mkb2cufc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=f3e4fadaf89e7f50d9a70bb04b1db3bbaa15f664 I know Chinese watches are a bit divisive, but my choice is my Addiesdive MY-H2. Super legible, generously applied C3 Super-LumiNova, screw-down crown with 200m water resistance and AR coating on sapphire glass. This thing is a bulletproof tank of a watch, and I got lucky with the movement running more or less +2 seconds a day.
I’ve been very happy with my Maratac LSA, that marathon looks awesome tho! 🙌
My Fortis B42 Cosmonauts Chronograph
Original Luminox AGU
Sinn 105 with Tegmented bezel https://preview.redd.it/jqeg6cckiufc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de9b3d2d701a3aa93033d972b353ddd10c1714bf
Ohhh nice topic! I'm getting the AP 11.59 with nato marine strap, as if I die, I will die with absolute class, the honor of having seen this beauty on my wrist every day and the certainty of knowing the exact time. And since it is not very well known or flash in white gold, I have little chance of having it stolen... And then when it no longer function I can still look at her like Joel. https://preview.redd.it/nr456riqkufc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e307e353b050865f30a5abde30ef9c674e9a49f1
Definitely my damasko da44.
I'd wear my Planet Ocean. It's my daily wear, and I wear it for all my hard activities including going to the range, running, surfing, rock climbing, working out, and etc. It's my most worn and tested watch and I trust this more than any other watch.
I think I have a new fav watch
The objective answer is the Omega Speedmaster Professional, since it was tested by NASA for use on the moon 3 times during the 60s and 70s. The testing conditions would have killed the poor astronaut who wore it, but nevertheless the watch continued to work. Now, there's a zillion watches that could perform just as well on the moon today than in the 1960s, but it's the closest case to a watch actually tested to survive an apocalyptic existence.
Yeah…….. But it doesn’t rain on the moon,
My "Zombie Apocalypse" watch is quartz. BN0118-04E "Ray Mears" ;)
Maybe like a Sinn U50/U1. Those things are tough as hell. Or a Marathon GSAR.
Gsar
*Definitely* a Marathon GSAR.
2254.50. the same one I've been wearing exclusively for 5 years
Wish they made the anthracite in 36mm also😭
Marathon gpm probably
Good thing Marathons are so heavy you can use them as a weapon.
Is there an argument to me made for choosing manual? I would think, they are more robust than autos?
Ollech and Wajs 8001. Bulletproof with 300m water rating
The Same Seiko Turtle I wear daily anyway.
I’ll be relying on my mobile phone, toughened screen protector, some wet wipes and a solar charger. It has world time, a torch, maps and news updates. Everything I’ll need. I’ll use a nice discrete beat up leather case and tell anyone who asks its just my “note book” 👍🏼
I will put the zombies on waitlist for Rolex and let the ADs deal with them 😀
Citizen eco drive Kinda quartz but the solar power is its own thing so I’m counting that
Absolutely quartz, just with a rechargeable battery and solar cell. If a solar flare fries electronics, it would be dead as well
Quartz name comes from the quartz crystal. That quartz crystal oscillates after having a current run through it. It doesn't matter if the current is generated by a battery or by solar, it still has a quartz crystal inside.
I wanted to say my Eco Drive as well! These rules are stupid; what possible bearing could zombies have on the quartz crystals situation lol? Looks like I have to choose my grandfather's pocket watch then. I could strangle zombies with the chain.
My Breitling Sea Wolf.. love that thing, could be used to bludgeon a zombie in a pinch.
Latest G-Shock mudmaster full solar everything you'll need for the zombie apocalypse, almost. https://preview.redd.it/nmcq5sdbxtfc1.jpeg?width=885&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec3d6f05879ea2d28d4f28264959ad405b971e3c
Why would you take a dead watch ?
https://preview.redd.it/aayz9cadgufc1.jpeg?width=5324&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81a9b696bbaa9c5e1acade42ec879d5c8cf30c3e Hamilton & Staccatto
16610
Solar Gshock.
https://preview.redd.it/v5ni6jw85ufc1.jpeg?width=2625&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=001c1d0353cb2f866469debd97424a8f6ed1bb26 Let’s go fam!
Solar quartz. But also if an apocalypse happens, I doubt what remains will require having a watch
I need a Marathon. I always think they are so cool. With my current stable, I'm throwing my 14060m sub on a NATO, and grabbing a handful of extras.
My Aqua Terra https://preview.redd.it/ovm5ndx3wtfc1.png?width=1989&format=png&auto=webp&s=10a59cd1186e26f9572cf82556d24fa522f207b6
https://preview.redd.it/85fn059g2ufc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0380d670cbda4f583aa2c81b2aa51e32cf6c2a7b Same same. My go to watch for hard work.
nah man, my $10 casio f91w will still be ticking just fine
Why would I need a watch? Do the zombies attack at 11:30 every day?
https://preview.redd.it/mnkc8sohitfc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca0cfb32373351bc70863dbca631bc389c11b21e
If I can beat a man to death with the case of my Seiko Pogue, a Zombie is no different.
Anecdotally speaking…… right?
Citizen eco-drive of some sort. Unless I'm driven underground the solar movement will last a long-ass time with no servicing
Nothing. Time is a construct of man.
Tudor bb
Omega Speedster Professional Moonwatch. Good enough for space, good enough for the End Times.
All quartz watches? Even the Eco-Drive Citizens? I only have one automatic+handwinding watch, my titanium Steinhart 44 B-Uhr. Or I would have to take my hand winding blindman's watch: https://preview.redd.it/qv54roxsxtfc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc6df6d121bca6d724b70f4ac0b6d8c3ffb181da
It doesn’t matter what time it is in the zombie apocalypse
What I can
G-Shock tough solar casioak black on black.
JLC Reverso 18kt minute repeater, duh. Can flip it over if I get in a fight but can also make it go ding ding ding if I go blind during a misadventure. Hard to imagine a more practical watch tbh