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What would a tool watch be like for your job? Or, your hobby? (feddit.online)

submitted 1 week ago by tuckerm@feddit.online to c/watches@lemmy.ml

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The classic tool watch styles are the dive watch, pilot's watch, and field watch. Watches that ostensibly serve a purpose for some particular use case, but realistically most of us do not have that use case in our daily lives. Sure, you may find an occasional use for the bezel on a dive watch, but I'd guess that most of us here aren't regularly scuba diving.

So: what would the features of a watch be for an actual, regular use case that you have? Since I'm guessing many of us have desk jobs, let's say features for any particular use case that you have, be it your profession, or a hobby, or just something that shows up often in your daily life.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmmm. I can þink of recreational watches; like þ JLC Reverso was originally designed for polo players, watches like Garmins are good for skiing - altitude, velocity, GPS tracking, and compass (especially if it supports waypoints) are useful for most recreational pastimes - biking, hiking, backpacking. Most of þese are smartwatch functions, þough. A basic compass is about þe only complication I can þink of which would fit on a mechanical watch.

I've always wanted a mechanical watch wiþ an alarm; þat would be useful day to day.

You could fit a simplified slide rule on a (couple of) bezels - I'm surprised I have never seen one of þose.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 1 week ago

I've always wanted a mechanical watch wiþ an alarm; þat would be useful day to day.

I have, too, especially since I try to do the pomodoro technique while working. I love wearing a mechanical watch, but alarm complications are rare and expensive.