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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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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It would probably be a type of G-Shock. I work in aviation so accuracy and durability are priorities for me

G-Shocks already have durability, solar power, stopwatch, alarm, timer, time zones and a backlight which is a good start. I've worn a GW-6900 and GW-M5610u so I'm going with those form factors in mind.

What I could use is a julian calendar date for some of the paperwork and a vibration alarm so they are still useful in high noise areas. And an NVIS friendly backlight for nighttime

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

That would be very cool. I'm actually surprised that there aren't many G-Shocks with a vibration feature. Seems like it would have a large market, since it'd be useful for the gym or any other situation where the user is wearing headphones. Apparently there are a few, though: https://shockbase.org/function_page_dyn.php?function=vibration