All utility for me. I try to have a conscious separation from tech and screens in general (I work at home in front of the PC all day), so I like to go for walks and do things outside of work without always having my phone on me. So, a watch is still necessary.
Change the date by using the crown.
Shit I see on Reddit lately gives me pause in my faith in humanity. The other day in a hiking sub someone was asking if their shoes are worn out (with a picture of their soles). Those were adult shoes; how do you get to be an adult without knowing when your shoes are worn out?
I’ve got a diver like that with heaps of BGW9. Fully lumed bezel to top things off; thing glows.
The first 'real' watch I bought was from a Microbrand in 2016. It's an Armida A4: ETA 2836-2, sapphire, BGW9 lume everywhere, including a fully lumed bezel. It's a Chinese-based company, but they were all about their watches actually being used by divers and therefore made as such. So, awesome specs, but a company that community respected (and still do, they just got undercut by other new micro brands), but the watch lack something...something I've not been able to put my hands on, and I've not decided whether there's something that bothers me that's related to the micro-brand-ness of it, or it's the watch. I don't know. That said, I've worn that thing more than any of my watches, and I love it enough to have recently serviced it.
Attempting to keep things 'perfect' was a huge contributor to my anxiety. Granted, I'm already prone to it, but at one point it got so bad, I would avoid driving my truck, for I was anxious about replacing heim joints every 10k miles (dusty off-roading in CO). As someone who loves to wheel and camp, this was really detrimental to me both mentally and physically.
It's a lot easier to live my life when I'm less attached to material things, for it's not them that bring happiness and contentment to me.
I still struggle with perfection, resisting change, and worrying about status quo, but a lot less these days, and I've been much happier for it. I even dinged the crystal pretty good on my daily Orient, and it didn't bother me like it used to.
I am taller than most, so door handles are not my enemy. My scratches have come from utilizing wrong tool for the job. Camping with an edifice. Working on truck wearing my Orient diver. So, I am my watche’s worst enemy.
Nice! Out of my 4 or 5 autos this one is tied for best timekeeping as well, and currently running at +6 spd after just getting it. Coincidentally, it’s tied with another Seiko movement that happens to be the old NH35.
Recent pickup. I’ve been really into Orients and Seikos lately and I picked this guy up as my very first field watch. Most of my collection are divers, but after wearing a 5610u for a while, I’ve really come to appreciate smaller watch sizes. Supremely comfortable watch and the dial details are awesome in person.
I thought I was having a stroke looking at them and thinking they were all over the place.
I only have one NATO strap that I wear infrequently, but yeah, that's completely plausible. Now, what the extent of that will be, I dunno, but on steel watches that I wear a lot (on straps), the caseback is covered with tiny swirls and scratches just from setting down the watch on a wooden surface for years.
At the end of the day, I wouldn't worry about it.