Watches

Timex expedition scout it’s so loud it’s not allowed in the bedroom at night but when I’m actually wearing it day to day it’s a non issue

Timex Expedition North

I think the rotor is actually louder than the ticking, though

Anything with a 6497/8 movement in it

ITT: Timex

For quartz timex and for mechanical, usually anything vintage

My Timex easy reader and Timex expedition

My vintage Kirova Type 1 ticks so loud I can hear it from across a room!

Swatch

Either of my hand wounds. In particular, the Speedy.

Timex expedition I can't hear it all the time but when I do It drives me a little nuts.

Rateka Sputnik

Rolex oysterquartz, can be heard accross a silent room easily.

If I wind my Hublot near my cats one goes nuts and runs out of the room.

My Nomos Ludwig 41 has a satisfyingly loud tick, presumably due to case thinness.

My first watch - the Timex Expedition Scout. I gotta put that thing in a drawer of under some clothes because damn can that thing tick

70s walthams are super loud my dexter waltham from 1976 tiks the loudest.

Rolex Oysterquartz. Cant be on the night table. Back in the box before bedtime :)

My Timex Expedition Scout. It's a cool, no-nonsense watch that I wear reasonably often, but it's damn loud. I don't mind the noise that much, though.

A lot of Timex here but i found handwound Panerais to be loud too

I had a plastic Swatch a number of years ago that was ridiculously loud

A watch I built from aliexpress parts, including an ETA 6497 seagull clone. That thing is loud, really loud.

I have an older Hamilton Khaki manual, and it's incredibly loud.

Being able to hear the ticking when I'm trying to sleep is my own personal hell. There is some kind of kafkaesque torture in being forced to be aware of the precise passage of time while trying to fall asleep.

Anyway, that's my Timex flyback chronograph which I love but cannot keep anywhere nearby at night.

Im actually glad to hear that other people find that calming.

I have a Stowa Flieger in 40mm that I can hear if I am in a quiet office or I bring the watch within about 20cm of my head.

My girlfriend got annoyed about my Tissot Le Locle ticking on the bedside table at night (the 2824-2 version, not Powermatic).

Swatch Sistem51 also pretty loud.

My grandpa's Normex watch

Huh, I have quite a lot of quartz watches but mine would be a mechanical Vostok weirdly

My vintage zodiac sea wolf has a hell of a loud tick

I've owned Timex watches that ticked insanely loudly. My automatics are off course decently audible when put up against the ear (most of which have been Seiko 4R movements), and so is the Swiss Precidrive/HAQ (High Accuracy Quartz) movement in my Certina. The by far most quiet watches I've owned though, are Citizen Eco-Drives. More or less completely in-audible, even when held up against the ear. This is probably to save energy, and the movement is running more efficiently and more refined. I have an impression Citizen just knows what they're doing with quartz. I've also found them to be more reliable than Swiss quartz, as I have just had that Precidrive movement start running way out of spec, failing me for the 2nd time already in 4 years now. While my Eco-Drives have been rock solid even with harsh use.

3861 Speedmaster Moonwatch

my tara sport, and a couple of vintage swatches.

I have a Soviet-era Luch dresswatch loud enough to remind everyone in the committee meeting not to waste the party's time.

Swatch are so loud I can’t have them in the same room when sleeping.

My Swatch. And yet it still ticks much less than a Timex. I was going to order a Timex and cancelled due to this. Least noisy is a Tissot. It's quartz but you literally can't hear anything but silence

If you own a Timex the answer can only be Timex.

Anything from Swatch, yes, including the moons.

Timex Expedition. 13 y/o and still working.

Roskopf pocket watches. When running well they’re just incredibly loud

Not ticking but humming: STOWA Verus 40

In case of ticking all kinda sound the same.

Any soviet mechanical wristwatch will sound like there's two tiny elves inside having a twig breaking competition all night long. 👍

My loudest watch is my '64 Chateau Diver (mechanical movement). If one of my ears is turned the right way at night, I feel like I'm watching 60 Minutes. The loudest watch in our house though, predictably, is my wife's Timex Weekender. Thankfully, my Timex Expedition Field Chronograph is completely silent. I have a lot of mechanical clocks though so the watches aren't really that loud.

Timex Weekender. I can hear it ticking in the middle of night.

I don't own it anymore, it was stolen during a break-in over ten years ago, but my Rolex Oysterquartz.

You could hear the audible tick from across the room. I would still own it if it hadn't been stolen.

Raketa from ‘70’s, can hear it even when it’s on my night stand hah

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I have a couple of handwinders based on Molnja movements that can be heard from a few feet away in a very quiet room.

Swatch X Shenron, I can't have it in the same room as me when I'm sleeping.