I just started "collecting" watches a couple of years ago. For some 30 years, I wore cheap, plastic Casio/Timex runner's watches that I never took off-shower,pool, working on cars, etc. At the end of one year, I would toss them in the trash can and go buy another one. They would be scratched up and I was finally sick of them. They almost always kept pretty good time. I would set them to GPS time signals enroute to the airport for work or in the cockpit.
More recently, I started buying nicer watches that I only wear occasionally. I now have three Citizen EcoDrives (solar/atomic). One each in black, silver and gold/silver. I have also recently purchased two Casio solar/atomics and put a tan field watch strap on one of them. One of the Casio's was a JDM watch that I purchased online and one of the EcoDrive's (Blue Angels) came from a Canadian Citizen Seller in Toronto...kinda cool. My brother gave me a Torgeon pilot watch when I retired.
I saw the Blue Angels recently with my son in DFW and I will give him that Blue Angels EcoDrive that I wore that day (for the first time), as a reminder of our lifelong love of airplanes and attending military airshows. It pales in comparison to the high end Rolex or Tag his boss gave him a couple of years ago, but hopefully he will wear it once in awhile for work.
I really like the solar/atomics for their accuracy but my daily watches are still plastic Casio/Timex's, backed up by my Garmin VivoSmart HR on the other wrist.
