The classic tool watch styles are the dive watch, pilot’s watch, and field watch. Watches that ostensibly serve a purpose for some particular use case, but realistically most of us do not have that use case in our daily lives. Sure, you may find an occasional use for the bezel on a dive watch, but I’d guess that most of us here aren’t regularly scuba diving.

So: what would the features of a watch be for an actual, regular use case that you have? Since I’m guessing many of us have desk jobs, let’s say features for any particular use case that you have, be it your profession, or a hobby, or just something that shows up often in your daily life.

  • mech@feddit.org
    1·
    4 days ago

    Tool watch for an IT sysadmin:

    tilted dial to be legible while typing
    strap with buckle on the side and a cushion at the bottom
    magnetic resistance
    anti-static properties
    second time zone for UTC
    day and date complication, with Friday colored red
    1h timer with vibrating alarm to remind you to take breaks
    scale around the bezel showing the number of IP addresses in subnets

    • tuckerm@feddit.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      strap with buckle on the side and a cushion at the bottom

      I’m surprised that there aren’t more straps designed to be keyboard-friendly. I wear my nato straps so that the buckle is as far towards the 6 o’clock lug as possible, and that kind of does the trick. But it’d be great if there were some two piece straps intentionally made that way.