Ratio Quest Field Watch - Sapphire/100m/Seiko Quartz $68 Delivered @ Creation Watches, Singapore

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  peachhead101 on 30/04/2024 - 08:39

  Would it feel weird having the strap go under the watch? It shows in the fourth picture

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    MonkDog on 30/04/2024 - 09:02

    +3

    Nah. They're reasonable comfortable so long as you don't get a really rigid material one. It's a NATO style strap, kind of common.

    On a thick watch they can make the watch sit a bit too high on your wrist (especially if they're a thick strap), but that watch is only 9mm thick, so it will be fine.

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      Nalar on 30/04/2024 - 09:17

      How do that go with sweat? Will it get stinky after a few weeks in qld summer?

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        r0xz on 30/04/2024 - 09:25

        yes, plus the dirt.

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        MonkDog on 30/04/2024 - 09:30

        Depends on how much you sweat… Mine certainly don't need a wash after a few weeks.

        I throw mine in a delicates bag and just wash them with my clothes when I feel like they need a spruce up. Or just hand wash by giving them a scrub, no biggie.

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        DanielBaird on 30/04/2024 - 21:01

        I live in the tropics in Qld and I love nato bands. It’s more comfortable having textile on your wrist than a flat disk of steel. And you change natos without taking the pins out, so it’s completely practical to rotate between bands to match your shirt colour or whatever, and it’s easy to chuck a band into the wash if it gets sweaty

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    Chazzozz on 30/04/2024 - 09:02

    It shouldn't. If you've worn a NATO style strap before then it won't feel strange.

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    gbak17 on 30/04/2024 - 09:03

    I've worn this style band before and it feels fine.

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      park on 30/04/2024 - 10:08

      There's a practical reason for this strap style. Even if one of the watch's pins fails, the watch doesn't fall off the wrist. This mattered to soldiers etc back in the day, but is of minimal practical benefit to a desk warrior in 2024.

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        Chazzozz on 30/04/2024 - 10:43

        +1

        …but is of minimal practical benefit to a desk warrior in 2024.

        You think? I know that when I’m in the throes of typing furiously the last thing I want is for my strap to give way and my watch to drop off just as I’m about to insert the time & date. That would be a tragedy!

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          park on 30/04/2024 - 12:50

          +1

          @Chazzozz: The whole watch industry is hostage to showcasing features that customers basically never use. "Look! My watch has markings around the edge that help me to understand how fast my analogue fighter plane is going!", and "Look! My watch has a twisty dial that lets me count how long my old timey SCUBA dive has left!", and "This watch cost hundreds of dollars more because it tells me what day of the week it is!", and "Look! My watch can survive being under hundreds of metres of water!", and "Look! My very expensive mechanical watch tells the time with a lower degree of accuracy than a $10 quartz watch!".

          It's all pretty wild, office workers paying huge dollars to dress up as someone who did cool stuff 50 or 100 years ago with inferior equipment.

          All that said, apart from the minor offence of the NATO strap, the watch at the top of the post is pleasingly practical and not a rip-off.

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            Chazzozz on 30/04/2024 - 19:50

            @park: I cheerfully agree with you. I just unpacked a watch today that touts 200m of water resistance, but there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell you’ll ever get me near water that goes deeper than my own height. I still like it, though - it has a great colour scheme, it fits really well, and it’s Eco-Drive (which, IMHO, is the best innovation in watches in the past 30 years or so). Watches these days doesn’t need to do half the things they were originally designed to do, it’s mostly for show, but that doesn’t stop enthusiasts from enjoying them. My comments above were entirely tongue-in-cheek.

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  SteveD on 30/04/2024 - 10:20

  Never heard of the brand.

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    occasionalposter on 30/04/2024 - 13:10

    +1

    also never heard of 24 o'clock

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      SteveD on 30/04/2024 - 17:03

      Eye for detail. Great find 👍👍

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      Chazzozz on 30/04/2024 - 19:52

      Have you ever had to tell time on a 24-hour clock? Midnight can be expressed as either 00:00 or 24:00, either one is correct

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        macrocephalic on 13/05/2024 - 16:15

        Disagree. 23:59 -> 00:00.

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          Chazzozz on 13/05/2024 - 16:40

          @macrocephalic: It can be confusing but it depends on what day you're referring to. Wikipedia has an article with more details but the basics are:

          • 24:00 is the end of one day
          • 00:00 is the start of the next day

          Mind-bending, isn't it? That's why you'll often see computer programs or scripts that are written with a 2-second gap when they're supposed to be evaluating a time around midnight (or even less, depending on how many decimal places the programmer wants to go to). When I want to guarantee that an operation will definitely occur on a specified date range I'll set a time frame of 00:00:01-23:59:59. I think modern operating systems and programming languages are a lot more sophisticated than they used to be, but I've seen where the computer was unable to determine what day 00:00 or 24:00 corresponded to and an operation either failed completely or ran when it wasn't supposed to.

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            macrocephalic on 14/05/2024 - 09:47

            @Chazzozz: I've never had a language fail to recognise 00:00, but I've never even tried 24:00; it's always made more sense to use 00:00 of the next day. 23:59:60 is also a valid time that you have to be aware of when programming.

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    ilikeit on 30/04/2024 - 13:21

    I don’t know their exact age, but I remember hearing about them at least a few years ago. They seem to have a decent reputation for an affordable watch brand.

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      SteveD on 30/04/2024 - 17:05

      Looks like this company is quite new to the watch market. If you look at their About us page, it says "Ratio watches started in 2017 in Singapore"

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  ilikeit on 30/04/2024 - 13:26

  Seems like a decent deal for a basic field watch. I would have no problem getting this watch, despite it being quartz, since it would be beater. However, there is a plethora of cheap automatic field watches on AliExpress that are quality. You can get an Addies for about $70 delivered with a Seiko auto.

  I would be weary of the claimed 9.1 mm thickness though. Probably more like 12 or 13mm.