I would like something stylish, rugged and practical that would fit in with a dangerous game safari. I don't want to break the bank but don't mind paying for true quality and beauty. Something I could pass on once I am gone.

Opinions?

The best safari wristwatch? That's easy!

NONE! NADA!

The first thing I do when I get to safari camp is to take my watch off and forget about the time ... just be in the moment and enjoy. I do my best not to count what day we're on and ask my PH to remind me the morning of the last day.

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something stylish, rugged and practical that would fit in with a dangerous game safari.

Rolex Submariner.

Only you can answer that question!

I have been wearing a Garmin sports watch on safari.

Tells me the distances we cover as well as the date and time.

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Very happy with my Garmin Instinct 2X Solar. Sunrise/set, altitudes, tracking, plus all the fitness stuff if you use all that. Rugged and waterproof etc. Not worried about scratches to face or band or if I loose it ......

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
The best safari wristwatch? That's easy!

NONE! NADA!

The first thing I do when I get to safari camp is to take my watch off and forget about the time ... just be in the moment and enjoy. I do my best not to count what day we're on and ask my PH to remind me the morning of the last day.

100% Todd.

None....

I never wear a watch. Everyone else including trackers have watches and phones....

Who cares what time it is???

I wear a Luminox navy seal style watch. They are not expensive, rugged, and glow in the dark way better than Rolex and Tag (my ageing eyes like that.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
The best safari wristwatch? That's easy!

NONE! NADA!

The first thing I do when I get to safari camp is to take my watch off and forget about the time ... just be in the moment and enjoy. I do my best not to count what day we're on and ask my PH to remind me the morning of the last day.

AGREED!!

I also wear a Luminox for hunting . Love them.

I always wear a watch!

I feel naked without it.

Same here.

I’ve used a Luminox Titanium as my hunting watch for nearly 30 years.

I have worn a Breitling Super Avenger on 25 plus hunts from Canada/Alaska and Africa. These truly are rugged and impervious to any climate, waterproof to 5000 meters, and can go to 90,000 feet unpressurized(granted overkill). A true beast of a watch. Just my opinion.
Wesley

the only time I want to know is when it is time to head out hunting and when its time to come back of a totty

Any watch that is not shiny or noisy would do fine.
I quit wearing a watch several years ago for reasons mentioned by others. Before that, I wore a Luminox.

That said there are times I'd like to know the time. For instance whether we have enough time to get to a particular place during shooting time or how long it's been after a shot. It always seems like longer.

Right before my first safari I bought a $7 watch at Walmart because I thought that I wouldn't have my phone with me all the time and I thought that I would want to know what time it was out in the bush.

I never put in on my wrist and I don't know where it is now.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
The best safari wristwatch? That's easy!

NONE! NADA!

The first thing I do when I get to safari camp is to take my watch off and forget about the time ... just be in the moment and enjoy. I do my best not to count what day we're on and ask my PH to remind me the morning of the last day.

+1. Wholeheartedly agree!

Not for utility as my iPhone has also replaced my camera & GoPro for vids (a must with a bow). I only wear a watch for luck.

That said, I've only ever worn two. Ever.

I wore my SS Daytona for decades til I bought a Heuer Aquaracer.

Both watches have brought me great luck!!! The Heuer way above it's pay grade and well beyond all expectations.

All about my lucky charm. I also take my FIL (ok his Case knife) with me- he was my huntin' buddy. Cut two elephant tails with it- one with a double and one with a bow.


Eh. Who gives a fuck what time it is on the Luangwe or in the Save!!!!!!

I understand not wanting to know the time while away. However, I do feel “off” without a timepiece on my wrist.

I wouldn’t wear a fine one in Africa, and rarely do in Argentina. I did have a Luminox, but my dumbass left it in a golf cart. I won’t wear a watch playing golf. I bought a Swatch, yes, a Swatch that has been every bit as good as my Luminox was.

Don’t wear anything too flashy in big towns overseas. We are already pegged as foreigners, especially if you’re dressed like Crocodile Dundee.

For the last 23 years I've been wearing a Timex Expedition. Replaced a couple over that time. Cheap, does the trick, backlights when I need it and takes a lickin' and keeps on ticken'. I leave all of my fancy expensive watches, including Rolexes, etc. at home where they should be. The Expeditions have been submerged, muddy, bloody and beat up at times, but I don't have to worry about a valued timepiece. One of my grandsons recently wore one of my Timex Expeditions that I had worn on one of my 2008 leopard hunts for years before it went dark.

Wear a Suunto Travere Alpha while guiding. Has a Gps, can drop a pin for a spot where last blood was found to follow up the next day, Altimeter, Barometer, Storm Alarm, Shot Counter etc.

Sadly, don't think they make them anymore. I bought it because on their website, the watch was listed under their hunting section, and wanted to support a company not scared of advertising that they had watches for hunting. Seems like that has been removed.

Like fulvio says: Rolex Submariner. A classic "field piece."

Mine was a gift in 1993, with a personal inscription on the back. Worn it everyday since. But it comes off and goes in my pocket when I deplane and whenever I walk through certain areas, whether here or abroad.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Only you can answer that question!

I have been wearing a Garmin sports watch on safari.

Tells me the distances we cover as well as the date and time.

This ...

. . . if a Rolex Sub is good enough for Sean Courtney, it’s good enough for me.

Lost me. Who is Sean Courtney?

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Originally posted by jdollar:
Lost me. Who is Sean Courtney?

When The Lion Feeds, Wilbur Smith.

The main protagonist and the book which started me into Smiths books, in 1975…….

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Originally posted by KMG Hunting Safaris:
Wear a Suunto Travere Alpha while guiding. Has a Gps, can drop a pin for a spot where last blood was found to follow up the next day, Altimeter, Barometer, Storm Alarm, Shot Counter etc.

Sadly, don't think they make them anymore. I bought it because on their website, the watch was listed under their hunting section, and wanted to support a company not scared of advertising that they had watches for hunting. Seems like that has been removed.

Your above caught my eye and as my cousin is a Suunto agent, confirmed that the Traverse model has been out of production for quite some time though has been replaced by an upgraded version known as the Vertical.

Rolex GMT here. I like to be able to quickly see the time at home as well.

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Originally posted by McKay:
Rolex GMT here. I like to be able to quickly see the time at home as well.

Hahaha...Same here. I hate having to do the math on what time it is at home. When I call them, I don't wake anyone up.

Watch? Lying dead in a drawer right beside my cell phone. People can wait until I get home to hear all about the hunt. My wife knows that I will let her know when I get there and let her know when I am on the way home...if she doesn't go with me for some reason.

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Originally posted by Skyline:
Watch? Lying dead in a drawer right beside my cell phone. People can wait until I get home to hear all about the hunt. My wife knows that I will let her know when I get there and let her know when I am on the way home...if she doesn't go with me for some reason.

the best reason to have: going together hunting ... i do not use that much a watch but the casio g-shock surived our arctic adventures even in very cold weather, no reason to change.

Rolex

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Originally posted by Rockdoc:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
Lost me. Who is Sean Courtney?

When The Lion Feeds, Wilbur Smith.

The main protagonist and the book which started me into Smiths books, in 1975…….

He is missed for sure.

Whatever Rolex coordinates with my sashe, maybe a "Pepsi"

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
The best safari wristwatch? That's easy!

NONE! NADA!

The first thing I do when I get to safari camp is to take my watch off and forget about the time ... just be in the moment and enjoy. I do my best not to count what day we're on and ask my PH to remind me the morning of the last day.

Most PHs will wear a watch, which helps with approaching early morning blinds and a reminder when it is lunchtime.

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Originally posted by MJines:
. . . if a Rolex Sub is good enough for Sean Courtney, it’s good enough for me.

Mike Jines for the win.

Apparently, the Rolex is the most stolen watch in the world.

In the UK, the thugs are accosting gentlemen in South Kensington and Mayfair with machetes, and stealing their Rolex's on the streets.

Thieves

Think things are better in the Third World?

I will wear mine at home and stay with my quite functional Luminox in places where I cannot defend myself, my wife, and my possessions with a concealed weapon.

And happily, in my environs, I don't even feel the need to do that, mostly.

Yes, my Rolex Presidential (diamond bezel and all) is at home in the gun safe. It never comes on Safari, and it has been there for the last 17 months while we have been living and working in Johannesburg on a Church legal mission. Even on this assignment (not hunting) I wear two different Timex watches. No need to tempt fate.

Agreed! I tell my guys to be as inconspicuous as possible.

Mark