What Watch do you wear when you hunt?

[AZDAVE]

When I hunt I am away from everything so my watch is the sun coming up in the east and the sun setting in the west everything in between is hunting time unless you are also hunting night kritters

My day to day watch is a Timex Ironman (Have been using one since the early 80's) Water proof, shock proof and the battery lasts around 5 years, throw it away and buy a new one 35-40$. I owned a very nice watch years ago but during one of the moves the box it was in didn't get delivered. So never bought a nice expensive watch again.

 

[spike.t]

36 year old Cartier Santos. Never take it off. Was cleaned once 17 years ago.

It's good to get the seals checked every few years. Water can get in through smallest defect

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Never been much of a watch person. My wife bought me a Cyma years ago, so I wear it. When I worked in Angola and Nigeria, or on hunts, I use a Timex digital with the Indiglo feature, alarm, dual time settings, velcro wristband.

 

[spike.t]

That is a very nice watch.... but tell your friend to get off his wallet and get a real mans watch.....

https://www.jomashop.com/richard-mille-watch-rm-53-01.html


LMAO I am not even sure how to read the time on it lol. I don't think it even does that.

Yup some are very complex and probably require some sort of degree to work them....Can't remember the exact figure he paid.... But in todays money with inflation think it would be around sterling 800,000. So he was in that league....was one of the biggest rolex collectors at one time . Loved cars as well..... Mercedes gullwing.... D type jaguar... Ferrari F40...Ferrari 288 GTO....Lamborghini miura svj.......etc.....and was a very nice person who was also big into hunting after he came to Zambia with me in 1990 I think it was.....then he started on rifles and shotguns.....

 

[Major Khan]

Major which Cartier tank watch do you have?.... I have the gold tank americaine with alligator strap that I got from my family for my 40th birthday.... That one is too dressy to wear apart from when going out

I own a Cartier Tank " Louis " Model , Spoke T . It has a black leather strap . I really love it , a great deal ... Because that was the same brand of wrist watch worn by Cary Grant ( A favorite actor of mine )
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[Ray B]

NOTICE to all of you ROLEX fans.

several years ago I was reviewing some police reports and came across one where a hot woman would pick-up some guy in a bar, they'd go to her room and get into some compromising situations. during the encounter accomplices would photograph and record the encounter. then the guy would be either blackmailed or a big guy would burst in and threaten the guy for being with his "wife".

What was the indicator that the woman would use to select a victim? They all were wearing Rolex watches.

 

[Tanks]

Hmmm, I'll have to make sure I switch over to my Rolex next time I go to a bar in Vegas.

 

[Alistair]

Hehe.

I only have a Milgauss for Rolexes. Still swank enough you reckon? I'd hate to go to the trouble of wearing it and then not get any!

Al

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

There's a great extract in "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School," by Mark McCormack:

"… I was having dinner with Andre Heiniger, the chairman of Rolex, when a friend of his stopped by the table to say hello.

“How’s the watch business?” the friend asked.

“I have no idea,” Heiniger replied.

His friend laughed. Here was the head of the world’s most prestigious watchmaker saying that he didn’t know what was going on in his own industry.

But Heinigher was deadly serious. “Rolex is not in the watch business,” he continued. “We are in the luxury business.”"

 

[Adam S]

I only have a Milgauss for Rolexes

That's a fine choice.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Cell phone. Clock, calendar, and pocket camera.

Why is a watch necessary on vacation ( especially on a hunting trip)?

Don’t forget a compass. A cheap, quarter sized Chinese made compass that I found in my emergency kit saved my a** once in the mountains when my GPS didn’t work because of the heavy fog and sleet. I didn’t have my good compass along because I gave it to my son, who forgot to put it in his backpack. I don’t hunt anywhere without a compass in my pack now. At least you know what direction camp is!

 

[markm]

Don't where one don't care what time it is your in Africa

 

[CoElkHunter]

@CoElkHunter the food in Africa is good. The lamb roast on the first night was a hit for me.
The game meats were nice i dont eat a lot of game i shoot feral pigs as pests .
Mmm, Elk ive never tried that, never hunted bear either.
All the food was good including the meals at Addo and Pumba.
I would eat the wraps and happily give up the sardines, juet not into fish although its healthy i cant reall enjoy it.

I know the food is always great in these Safari camps. I’ve seen the photos of the food and it all looks scrumptious! Obviously, I’ll eat almost anything. And, I have eaten some not to so great food, I.e. sardines and dried beans when a certain someone forgot to bring the food! I’ve now learned though and have enough non perishable food in my pack to last several days, and my solar powered watch. Not really sure what the watch is for?

 

[AES]

daily for last 30 or more years. ...can understand why someone wouldn't want to use those in case of loss...but insurance looks after that....no difference from someone using their boss...purdey .etc to hunt with or take their lamborghini. ..ferrari. ..porsche and hammer it around a race circuit on a track day.....part of the fun of owning them is to use them as much

There's a great extract in "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School," by Mark McCormack:

"… I was having dinner with Andre Heiniger, the chairman of Rolex, when a friend of his stopped by the table to say hello.

“How’s the watch business?” the friend asked.

“I have no idea,” Heiniger replied.

His friend laughed. Here was the head of the world’s most prestigious watchmaker saying that he didn’t know what was going on in his own industry.

But Heinigher was deadly serious. “Rolex is not in the watch business,” he continued. “We are in the luxury business.”"

Really, though, that is so lame.

 

[BeeMaa]

This thread had me considering using my Omega 42mm Plant Ocean for hunting.
After all, it can survive 600 meters underwater...why not a safari?
I took out a scale and it weighs 187 grams and feels very heavy for trying to travel light.
My G-Shock MudMan weighs 56 grams, and will be going on my next safari.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I don't worry about a watch, if I can't tell the time within half an hour using the sun I should be taken out and publicly flogged.
I'm out there to hunt not worry about time. When 8m hunting the only times in interested in is when I'm hungry I eat and when it starts getting dark I go home.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying, calls his grandson to his bedside:

Guido, I wanna you lissina me. I wanna you to take-a my chrome plated .38 revolver so you will always remember me."

"But grandpa, I really don't like guns. How about you leave me your Rolex watch instead?"

"You lissina me, boy. Somma day you gonna be runna DA business, you gonna have a beautiful wife, lotsa money, a big-a home and maybe a couple of bambinos?

"Somma day you gonna come-a home and maybe finda you wife inna bed with another man..

"Whatta you gonna do then? Pointa to you watch and say, 'Time's Up'?"

 

[spike.t]

Really, though, that is so lame.

What is.....?...

 

[Chago]

I just look at Jomashop at my Watch, $6700. And 37 years ago, after VAT refund $650.

Key part of that is 37 years ago lol. Go find your same watch on the manufacturer site. Bet you it's double.

 

[Chago]

NOTICE to all of you ROLEX fans.

several years ago I was reviewing some police reports and came across one where a hot woman would pick-up some guy in a bar, they'd go to her room and get into some compromising situations. during the encounter accomplices would photograph and record the encounter. then the guy would be either blackmailed or a big guy would burst in and threaten the guy for being with his "wife".

What was the indicator that the woman would use to select a victim? They all were wearing Rolex watches.

So which bar exactly does this happen at? And is she blonde? What bra size? Lol