Thanks.

It's the Casio DW-1000, the same one featured on the MacGyver's Wardrobe page.

The price these go for on eBay are kind of mind blowing. Well over $100.00

Wow. Pricey. But still Nicey!

Here is my latest acquisition. An updated version of the Trooper brand watch like Mac wore early on in the series. Granted the numbers are green instead of white, and the shape of the hands are slightly different but it still looks cool. I'll wear this one. I'm on the hunt for a accurate MacGyver version to add to my collection.

Ironically, this is one I want to get next too.

I have the Timex one at the moment but really like the Trooper watch.

Love me some watches:



I also just bought a vintage Vietnam Era Timex from a surplus store which should be arriving soon:

As mentioned on page 1, I wear an Orient Deep. Here it is among my other EDC stuff:

Holy Kazooie! I'm jealous!

Those are some fine lookin' watches!

Can I raid your watch collection, A. MacGyver? Cool watches!

My thoughts/feelings have changed in the past few months with regards to this topic. I now believe the old style one dimensional wrist watches to be archaic / obsolete to my needs. However .... I still think that a time device around one's wrist is a necessary convenience. The old style watches still rule in the style/cool department .... but the fitness/smart watches have become so precise, value-added and healthy - that I could not ignore them any longer. Enter the Garmin VivoActive HR, that basically is your fitness coach, physio Dr, GPS, and bluetooth time device around your wrist. Really incredible technology that further adds fuel to my fire that the whole MacGyver concept has gotten a little long in the tooth. This thing zaps you, taser like, and/or calls you directly if it thinks your daily fitness goals are lagging - and that's just for starters ......

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I'm actually the other way Joe. I'm sporting one of the Dakota clip on watches right now, but my other two are really old school. I've a 20 year old Wenger and a Timex Camper that I picked up from the Mac store.

All good, Barry! My thoughts are often reflected back towards how these (now common place) gadgets would have, could have affected the original series episodes if they were in vogue back then. For example, smart watches can constantly update your heart rate, GPS location, & precise movement sequences to a shared online account and so it might have taken a lot of the guess work and drama out of some of the earlier episodes. Regardless, these technologies are getting 'smarter' by the day and it's becoming harder and harder to actually 'get lost' and/or have an uncertainty about your moment to moment well being. Again, all good!

How?


I have to say I'm strongly against anything that's constantly tracking my location. Especially when it's being uploaded to the internet where anyone with a bit of know-how and bad intentions can find me and work out my daily routines. I don't see any value in knowing constantly what my heart rate is in a normal every day situation either so I'm happy with the Citizen EcoDrive divers watch I brought myself for my last birthday. Waterproof to 200M. Has a chronograph timer, tells date and time and never needs battery replacement.

For me I've gone the opposite way, wearing plain jane field watches, sometimes even without a date. Almost all the time it's an automatic one too. I wore plenty of Casio atomic watches that keep time to the exact second, but lately I feel less inclined to be that perfect. I haven't tried a fitness watch yet either. I'm a runner and I figure my HR is usually around 60 resting and if my pants get snug then it's time to cut back on the chocolate, or run more

For me one of the most important factors about a watch is that it must be analog.

I wore a digital watch for a while last year and I really noticed the lack of spacial awareness with it. With a digital watch it tells you the exact time and that's it. But with an analog watch you get to "see" the time like a map. You can see where you are in the day, hour, etc. It's like a graphic representation, if it's 20 minutes past the hour I can see the amount of "distance" I have left in that hour and lets me plan things out easier through that remaining 40 minutes.... when the hand gets to here I'll do this and when it gets here I should be ready to do that.. etc, or when the hand gets there I want to be at such-&-such a place, or whatever. I just like the physical representation of an analog watch.

Than what kind of digital watch is that? I wear one, still the same I posted about here four years ago. It clearly gives the time, the date and the day. Right now it's 12:12 pm and I have 48 minutes left in the hour. I think I can do the same things with it as you do with an analog one.

How?

Bluetooth to Mobile. GPS/location is optional data.

Analog/digital faces/font/plate color are all programmable with these new smart watches. Anything possible and just a click away!



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Clearly missed my point.

How?

and....that takes away guess work and drama how? AND which episodes are you talking about?

I have a friend that wears a watch like that to in order to monitor his heart rate. He has to because he has a heart condition. So, I think depending on your lifestyle, it can be beneficial. My watch's battery died, so I haven't been wearing a watch as of late, which feels weird. I feel like I need to have one. lol Personally, I prefer just a regular watch. I used to love the ones that would changed from night to day back when I was a teenager... those were always fun.

Of course, I'm not as into gadgets as say, my Dad is. My Dad likes anything with a ton of buttons. We had a 1989 Chrysler Lebaron that had two trip computers and an all digital readout. You should have seen his eyes light up... like a kid in a candy store! XD

I think there were a several episodes with amnesia, blindness, missing, lost etc. I like the way you can program these computers to send signals when you reach certain goals/waypoints/steps ... or if your heart gets dangerously high or low. I think this technology would have helped not hurt MacGyver's ventures .... but hurt not helped the show's modus operandi.

You're not alone in your thinking though, was showing it to a team of physiotherapists at the hospital a few weeks ago ... who still monitor patients recovery movements the old pen/paper way and they were collectively cold to the idea of a device that records each step/movement/partial vital and sends it to a computer file automatically ... I think because it kind of replaces a portion of their job for them .... and perhaps makes them feel slightly less significant.

SAME!!! And I do wear a watch.

SAME!!! And I do wear a watch.

Okay, drop the egos boyz - nobody cares about where/when or how fast/efficient you do your workouts!

Seriously, for the tinfoil types, you can just use the USB cable to upload your files securely from the watch to your PC device. No internet needed!!!

I personally am not against smart watches but the only thing I dislike is having to charge it daily. Till they design longer life and more apps useful to my personal criteria, I'll stick to the old school.

That's already there. My Garmin Vivoactive HR lasts 8 days on a 45 minute charge off a laptop or pocket battery charger. That was critical in my finally 'buying' into this evolving technology.

Exactly!!!

Oh yep. I know the one. Looks like this.....

I also like the accuracy of these smart GPS watches - and the fact that my mobile, car clock, and wrist watch are always synchronized to the second and with the yearly time adjustment/shifts on auto adjust. The touch screen technology is easier to manipulate on the move - as well.

Swiss Army Knife of Watches

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I still don't understand people who walk around without wearing a watch

I'm very boring when it comes to my watches and glasses - I've been wearing the same analog metal Swatch (with a light blue cover) for at least 15 years now.

I started with a "Flick Flack" (children's watch by Swatch) that was a gift by my god-mother. Then there was a black-and-neon-yellow Pop-Swatch, an ordinary black plastic Swatch and then a yellow digital Casio Baby-G. So only 5 watches in 30+ years.

I think it's time for a new one, but I just don't really care about watches and never find one that I actually want to have. Every time I look at watches, I'm like "nah, my old one works just fine"

@MacOnline - That's close! XD Except no Kitt for me to talk to. But, it was a pretty fun car to drive. I drove it when I first got my licence. It had a turbo too, but Dad disabled it... probably to keep me from running it into a tree. lol

@Dash - I haven't worn a watch in a while because my Timex Weekender battery died. I adjusted to not wearing it though, so I just don't think about it. I have my phone, and everywhere I go there's a clock... so I don't really *need* it right now.

However, I miss my old Maurices watch... it needs a new battery too. It's not functional, except to tell time, but it's a damn cool looking watch. Too bad they don't make this style anymore.

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I like that watch Jedi!! I remember a friend buying an '89 Lebaron convertible new and taking a road trip in it. 80's digital action everywhere😁!

@Dash: I'm the same way. I still wear my Old Wenger that I've had 19 years and counting. I finally broke down andgot my Mac Timex watch bevause I thought it looked great and the site store had them. I just can't go with a watch, and I've tried XD!!