Under £100 holiday watch

[Deep]

Evening all
I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas.
I'm off away in a few weeks time and looking for a new watch. I usually take one of my nice watches and have worn them without any stress across Egypt, India, Far East.
However this time I suspect I will be in a lot of bars and probably pretty drunk at times lol....it doesn't really make sense to take an expensive watch.

So I need a watch to take with me. It needs to be

Under £100
Very legible dial as sadly my near sight is getting worse.
Date function
Light and comfortable
Waterproof enough for the swimming pool and perhaps a couple of meters skin dive.

I would have just taken my son's moon swatch but am worried about water damage and it doesn't have a date window.

Thanks

[keo]

Is a G shock in budget?

[blingybongy]

Job jobbed.

https://g-shock.co.uk/ga-2100hd-8aer?gad_source=4

[7mike]

My near sight isn't that good, so sold on my G-Shock, couldn't read the date & hated trying to reset the date etc. Personally, I'd go for a Casio Duro MDV 106, just over £50.

[redrabbit]

£44. Add a £5 NATO. Sorted

[paddy1970]

Casio MDV106 "Duro" (often called the "Casio Marlin")
- Usually around £50-60
- Very clear dial with large indices
- 200m water resistance (more than enough for your needs)
- Date window
- The main downside is it's slightly larger/heavier than some alternatives

[InitialDave]

Timex Expedition Scout.

[Super Sonic]

redrabbit said:

£44. Add a £5 NATO. Sorted

As an added bonus, the face illuminates when you press the crown.

[Barchettaman]

^ nice, but I wouldn’t personally swim or snorkel with that one.

As others have mentioned the Casio Duro MDV106 or 107 will more than do the job. I really like mine, having owned various expensive dive watches.

Another option is the Casio day date:

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9025873?clickPR=pl...

[InitialDave]

Buy half a dozen F91Ws and you'll still have enough money left over for the bar.

[Hoofy]

InitialDave said:

Buy half a dozen F91Ws and you'll still have enough money left over for the bar.

Walking through customs with 6 F91Ws won't raise any concerns.

[InitialDave]

Hoofy said:

Walking through customs with 6 F91Ws won't raise any concerns.

Ahahaha it's probably fine as long as you don't have your kid's plasticine in there too

[silentbrown]

Deep said:

Date function

I don't think I've ever actually used the date window on an analog watch.

[MattsCar]

This Citizen Eco-Drive BM8180-03E is well priced at Argos...




Time Expedition Scout Timex TW4B29600 as someone mentioned, only £50 on Amazon...

Edited by MattsCar on Thursday 26th December 23:35

[5pen]

What about a Garmin Forerunner 35. Quite an old model now, so can be found under £100.

As clear a display as you could ask for and meets your other criteria. Good basic smart watch for recording exercise activities too.

[Hoofy]

InitialDave said:

Hoofy said:

Walking through customs with 6 F91Ws won't raise any concerns.

Ahahaha it's probably fine as long as you don't have your kid's plasticine in there too

[BiggestVern]

This:

https://g-shock.co.uk/dw-5600ue-1er

£99.90 and likely to last forever.

[magpie215]

Raf pilot ...ish chrono for £59.99.

Should make a decent holiday beater.

[Deep]

Excellent suggestions, thank you!

Will take a proper look at all of then when I get home from work.

Thanks.

[WayOutWest]

magpie215 said:

Raf pilot ...ish chrono for £59.99.

Should make a decent holiday beater.

I've got one of those. It is a cool looking watch but I would say if spending a lot of time in the water the already suggested Casio Duro is probably a top choice - they are big though at 44mm so may not suit if you don't have stairwell-dominating wrists.
They did a smaller version of the Duro but it was crap, and not a patch on the proper one.