Going on holiday & need a watch

[sleep envy]

Off to east Africa in a few weeks and need a watch - £150 to £200.

Will be camping/on safari and diving so needs to be reasonably robust and water resistant to about 20m.

Any ideas?

[trickywoo]

Seiko 007 from Creation watches http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-dive...

Or a cheap Casio digital for less than £30.

[CraigVmax]

bit quirky but I have one of these for such occasions:

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/310348160791?var=lv...

[magpie215]

Seiko Monster

[toasty]

Suunto Core Black with altimeter, barometer, storm warning, compass and blackness.



Suunto Core Black by jcross70, on Flickr

[RemainAllHoof]

G-shock. None of the others are robust enough.

[Podie]

Just picked up a cheep and cheerful holiday beater...

[LukeBird]

trickywoo said:

Seiko 007 from Creation watches http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-dive...

This, chuck it on a NATO; job done.

[sleep envy]

and in english?

cheers for the suggestions chaps

[LukeBird]

sleep envy said:

and in english?

I'll assume that was directed at me, sorry!

One of these straps, they're called a 'NATO' strap-



Buy from here, just pick the colour and size (22mm in the case of the Seiko mentioned above).
They're washable and very comfy in hot conditions.

[sleep envy]

LukeBird said:

I'll assume that was directed at me, sorry!

cheers, no need to be - I'm not quite up to speed with watch speak

eta - fabric seems like a good idea for a hot climate, good suggestion

[Podie]

sleep envy said:

fabric seems like a good idea for a hot climate, good suggestion

Hence my choice of Seiko SNDA57... comes with a fabric strap, useful chronograph, date, water resistant to 100m and cheap at under £140.

[sleep envy]

I'm sensing a closing to a sale, are you on a comm Pods?

[Podie]

sleep envy said:

I'm sensing a closing to a sale, are you on a comm Pods?

Sadly not. Creation is a good shout, although I don't recall they do the SNDA57. Plenty of places do sell it though - don't pay more than £140 for one. They do a green version if you want to pretent to be in the army or summat

[Vipers]

Just make sure it looks crap, no one will want to steal it but then again Africa...........

[Podie]

Vipers said:

Just make sure it looks crap, no one will want to steal it but then again Africa...........

Yeah, don't take a Nokia 3210!!!

[LukeBird]

sleep envy said:

LukeBird said:

I'll assume that was directed at me, sorry!

cheers, no need to be - I'm not quite up to speed with watch speak

eta - fabric seems like a good idea for a hot climate, good suggestion

Not a problem.
Assuming you buy that Seiko on the rubber strap, any high-street jeweller should be able to take the rubber strap off and pop some spring bars in (so the fabric strap can go on the watch). Give me a shout if you do buy it, I can pop a spare set of spring bars in the post.

[andy_s]

There's one in the classifieds...









(not really)

[tertius]

Podie said:

sleep envy said:

I'm sensing a closing to a sale, are you on a comm Pods?

Sadly not. Creation is a good shout, although I don't recall they do the SNDA57. Plenty of places do sell it though - don't pay more than £140 for one. They do a green version if you want to pretent to be in the army or summat

Podie's one came from FirstClassWatches - they are in the UK.

[sleep envy]

Cheers Dan.