We love to wax poetic about mechanical watches here at Gear Patrol. I mean, they’re awesome, and we love them. Sometimes you can even find affordable mechanical watches, which is fantastic. These serve as an entryway into the collecting hobby and get people excited about watchmaking.
But let’s be real for a sec. Because the truth is, that at the end of the day, if you find yourself outdoors frequently, or playing team sports, or in the military, chances are you’ve discovered the dirty little secret that the mechanical watchmaking world would prefer you didn’t know. Which is to say: all you really need in an ideal sport watch can be had in a sub-$100 quartz-powered G-Shock.
That isn’t to say that you should ignore mechanical watchmaking — it’s cool, it’s fun, it gets you out of the house to hang with likeminded strangers several Wednesdays per month so that you can forget about how much you hate trading options for a living.
But your average G-Shock delivers the following: a backlit screen with Afterglow beneath a mineral crystal; a 1/100th-second stopwatch; a countdown alarm; an auto-repeat function; a daily alarm; an hourly time signal; 12/24-hour formats; an automatic calendar pre-programmed until the year 2039; and a 2-year battery life. And generally you can get this functionality for less than $100.
However, today’s your lucky day — today, you can get a prototypical G-Shock for just $41, or 41% off its list price of $70. Take a second and think about what kind of functionality you’re getting for the cost of an entrée in NYC — it simply can’t be beat. And it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your mechanical watches, too — but if you frequently hike, climb, run, or even simply go to the gym multiple times a week, then this is the watch you want to be wearing.
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