Which watch has seen the most wrist time in your life?

[oneillba]

Now that I think about it.. I wore a Timex Ironman for many, many years and it took a licking and kept on ticking.

[rtuy1]

SS Datejust, wearing it for 11 years

[Z-Sub]

SD 4000 then Sub Date and then GMT

[Tudor66]

Quartz watch, tough as nails, only one service after 25+ years of wear. In my opinion a great lower cost watch, but no longer my cup of tea...

[bluemartinifan]

Great question - my DJ I bought when I was 22 and owned until I was 40 - that was before I became a WIS and a flipper.

[Docar]

This Omega Speedmaster MKII was worn daily for thirty-six years.

[pipp]

my datejust, but my gmt is catching up.

[russellnyc]

This 1995 Breitling Chronomat P.A.N. Frecce Tricolori was on my wrist from about 1996 to 2007, more wrist time than any watch I have ever owned. At some point I just got sick of it. Now, I wear it on a NATO from time to time when I feel sorry for it. I can't ever bring myself to sell it because it's special to me and I've never seen another one in person, plus I'm a sucker for a matte dial and painted indexes. It has even developed a patina -- yellowed indexes and faded face. Breitling service replaced my original tritium hands last year with Luminova service hands without my permission...

[Gonerafting]

5508

[Boopie]

My Yachtmaster, daily, for more than 11 years. I've owned many watches over the years but none have lasted that long.

But, I still have my first watch ever, from when I was in preschool, a Bradley "Goofy" (Disney character) watch. I've worn a watch essentially ever since preschool. In elementary school I had a watch that was the shape of a ladybug, that you pressed the "antennae" and the "wings" would open to display the watch face. It was a pendant so I wore it on a necklace. In high school I wore a white "Swatch" watch (I think everyone wore a Swatch back then). I bought myself what I considered a nice watch when I graduated from high school (it had Roman numeral numbers, I still have it) and several others since then.

[Glidelock]

I gave had a Sub date on my wrist most of the last 13 years or so!

[T-Rip]

Dssd

[sea-dweller]

Sub Date, or Sub non-Date or Casio G Shock basic

[George Ab]

Seadweller 4000.

[Tunapro]

Vintage Citizen Aqualand Pro Master....20 years....I only own dive watches....now, Sea Dweller 4000, Dssd, or subC....everyday....

[sleddog]

For me, it has to be my trusty 16600 SD!!!

It doesn't get near the attention it use to, but it's been through many hours of wrist time over the last 6 years!

[boogiebot]

have not owned too many watches, but i have to admit out of the ones that i have had the subc gets 90% of the wrist time.

[Naya72]

My sub nd for me....

[judodave1964]

16610 sub date,

[jdc]

Vintage Oysterdate

[Gugnunc]

My 1963 5500 Explorer bought new in 1965.

[The GMT Master]

This is a good question - I'm not entirely sure!

I had a lime green Festina Alarm Chrono that I wore a lot when I was a kid, got a lot of enjoyment out of that watch. More recently, I wore my Seiko Black Monster almost daily for a year and a half, until I melted it. Of my luxury watches, I wear my Speedmaster a lot more than my Datejust, but as I've had the Datejust 3 years longer, its still had the most wrist time.

[MrLee]

Omega smp 14 years continuous wear!!

[Submarino]

Probably a Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402ST that I regret selling in 2002.


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[jamesbondOO7]

My DJ: 25 years of wrist time before I bought my Explorer II.

[Rockrolex]

Nice vintage piece, Martin.

For me, this has seen the most wrist time for the past 9 or 10 years. It gets about 95% of my time.



Before this one, I alternated between a couple of TT DJs for a few years. Before that, I was into Casio complication watches. All had to have memory to store phone numbers, plus world time, alarm, chrono, etc. But since getting into high end stuff, all my Casios have been sitting in a watch box gathering dust.

[acce1999]

Originally Posted by thechoson

Curious - if you count up all the watches you have worn for your entire life, which one has had the most wrist time? Rolex or otherwise, and can be a watch you don't own anymore.

For me it's my daily wearer 16610 I've had for the last 4 years. Besides that I don't recall consistently wearing one watch for more than 2 years or so, dating from childhood Casios.

My Explorer 14270, that I bought new in the mid 1990s. Was my only, and daily, wearer for ten years. It is still the watch that get's the most wrist time. I am wearing it now, and it gives me as much (if not more) pleasure as it did the day I bought it.

Best,

A

[acce1999]

Originally Posted by Newbieone

Quartz watch, tough as nails, only one service after 25+ years of wear. In my opinion a great lower cost watch, but no longer my cup of tea...

I like that white dial, with the black markers and hands! Lovely! And given the obvious similarities with the Rolex Submariner, I can only say that Rolex Geneva should take some inspiration from this and offer a white dialled Submariner with indicies and hands like the white Ex II ... and with the Jubilee bracelet as an option.

Best,

A

[w4rmk]

I wore this Skagen Titanium for about 6 years before I got the bug to get into expensive watches (Rolex/Panerai/Omega). Because this watch is titanium it was super light and paper thin which is the reason I liked it so much. I still have the watch (not worth anything) and it is still running great.

[tattooedfagin]

no competition, love this watch