Nike Watches: Owned

Here are the Nike watches I own, in descending order by size:

Hammer below


Chisel below


Press below


Triax Mobius below


Ratchett below



Drill below


Torque below

My Collection Storage

I showcase my watches on my wrist daily. I keep them in line in my kitchen drawer. Maybe I should get a fancier display mechanism. Until then, here they are.

Size Matters

I think that I've come to realize that I like bigger digital watches. Not sure why, maybe it's a testosterone thing. I hate my tiny Nixon Primer watch not because of its design but because of its small stature. I love my Freestyle Nomad and Lopex III and my Nike Hammer because of their girth. I have my eye on the Freestyle Killer Shark because it's a whopping 50mm across the face.

Some boring details. I want a watch across the face at least 38mm and up. 40mm and up is a safer larger size. I often look for information about size when shopping. The Nomad is 50mm, same size as the advertised Killer Shark. Other big ones are in the mid 40s in mm. You get the picture.

Freestyle Nomad below:

Nike Hammer below:

Buying: Google Shopping

I regularly check out new leads on watches I haven't seen with Google Shopping. Search the make and model of the watch, hit the shopping link, and you get a pretty good result with photos and prices. I have stumbled across some deals on new digital watches this way. Obvious, but helpful, and a good jumping off point.

Highgear Enduro v. New Balance Nduro

What's the deal here? I found the New Balance Nduro at Kohl's. I made a note then surfed the web for the watch and deals. Here's the New Balance watch.




Then I surfed around and found the Highgear Enduro. Here's what it looks like.


Same exact watch, different logo at top. I bought the Highgear for $14 with free shipping from Amazon. It's a little smaller than I wanted, and it has red in the strap and the face. I don't like red at all, and I generally don't like color on my digital watches. Still and all, a solid watch. I give it a 7. Not sure why it was so cheap when other Highgear watches are so expensive.

My current saved searches on eBay

I have a lot of saved searches on eBay. I love getting my daily updates of new stuff from my saved searches around noon daily, seven days a week.

Here's my current list of saved searches. Brace yourself.

adidas candy watch
adidas fitness control watch
asics watch
body glove rhyz
body glove toob
body glove warpt
carrera digital watch
columbia peak 15 watch
columbia tailwhip watch
freestyle durbo
freestyle killer shark
freestyle protege watch
freestyle speed dial
freestyle tide
halo kr3w
highgear altis
nike anvil
nike blade watch
nike cage watch
nike monsoon watch
nike oregon square digital
nike sledge
nike typhoon
nixon connect
nixon housing
nixon lowdown
nixon outsider tide
o.d.m. 3 touch digital
oakley d2 watch
oregon nike watch super
puma escalate watch
quiksilver accent watch
quiksilver adictiv watch
quiksilver code watch
quiksilver moondak watch
quiksilver mover watch
rip curl bells oceansearch
rip curl rincon
rip curl trestles
soleus watch
starck fossil watch
suunto m4
tech 4 acceleartor watch
timex e-instruments abt
timex t41501
timex ws4
tocs sports-digi
vestal crusader
vestal digichord

Whew. Got all that? Things will change as acquisitions occur and new discoveries found.

Freestyle Watches: Owned

These are my favorites. I own, in descending size

Nomad below

Lopex III below

Lopez World Class below

Funbox below

Convert Black below

Convert Frankenstein below

Gilgo Frankenstein below

Boiler below

Shark Buzz below

Shark Buzz 2 below

Shark Mako below

Rockaway below

My all time favorites are probably the Lopex III and the Nomad. I didn't think I would like the Nomad as much as I do. Probably because of its massive size and brute force. I check the temperature on the watch occassionally, but it's usually about 85, which I assume is corrupted by body temperature.

Quiksilver watches

These are great watches. Well, I only have one of them, the Axiom, which is a fun watch, with buttons just on the front and not the sides. Pretty durable and stylish. A 8.5.

Here's the Axiom below.

Others I'm in the market for:

The Mover below:

The Code Below:

The Addidictiv below

The Moondak below:

Other Things Are Cool Too

I like digital watches. I like them because I think they look cool. But I also like design in architecture, interior design, art, photography, you name it.

I have given this a fair amount of thought, and this is what it boils down to: I like things I think look cool. My wife and I designed (with an architect; let's not get crazy; I'm a stupid lawyer) and built our dream house that's very modern. We like it because it's cool. I like cool furniture, and cool books, and cool shoes.

Cool buildings
Renzo Piano's Marie Tibaou Cultural Center in New Caledonia




Cool shoes
Puma L.I.F.T. Racer




Cool sunglasses
Oakley Juliet




Cool fruit basket
Alessi Blow UP



Cool prefab house
Rocio Romero prefab, which gets you a kit for about $43k for a 1400 square foot house.




Cool car
Lotus Elise

Freestyle Frankenwatches

I have made two Freestyle combo watches. I bought the watch with a non-black band but silver face and then got a matching black band for the watch. I did this with my Gilgo and Convert.


Gilgo below:


Convert below:



I want to do this with the new Freestyle Durbo, but it's pretty expensive, and the all black looks pretty good. And the white one with a silver face would have some white left and it might look weird. Maybe I can ask someone at Freestyle if they can take the black watch and add a silver face from the white one. We'll see.

Buying: Amazon

I buy sometimes when I find cheap deals on Amazon. Not sure how I stumble across these. Often it's a new watch and I do a google shopping search and find it for significantly cheaper than eBay or other online sellers. I bought a Highgear Enduro this way recenctly and my Freestyle Funbox that way a while ago.
Often when I get a lead on a new watch, I will check it out on Amazon, and occassionally find a great deal. Also, my office got me a gift credit for Amazon and I need to use it.

Buying: Pawn Shops?

I have never been inside a pawn shop. I know they buy and sell Rolexes, authentic and otherwise. Do they sell digital watches with rubber straps? I need to check this out sometime.

Buying: eBay

Most of my acquisitions are made via eBay. I currently have 50 saved searches for digital watches. I will go into more detail later, I assume. I often find myself making lowball "make an offer" offers, almost always rejected. I will sometimes make offers on multiple watches from the same seller, trying to make a deal. That doesn't usually work either.

Once, with my fancy Freestyle Nomad, the auction ended at 3:30 in the morning or something. I got that one for cheap, I assume because no one else was up then. Just yesterday, I got an email for a Highgear watch that had no bids and must have been a short auction or somehow slipped past people's radar. I also got it for cheap.

Occassionally, this strategy will blow up in my face, as a watch isn't what I thought I was getting. Perfect example is the Nixon Primer, my only Nixon watch. It looked cool in pictures, and I got a pretty good eBay deal on a used one. Problem was, I got it and it's tiny, a borderline women's watch. I won't wear it and will sell it eventually. I now ask for face sizes so I know how big it is.

You

As I write this, I have no followers or readers. None. Oh, well.
I hope that in the future, folks with a common interest in these watches will find this blog. I hope that you will comment on my comments. I hope that you will steer me to other digital watches that I haven't seen. And help me find about new ways of buying watches.

The Plan

I need to include pictures in this blog. As fascinating as my words are, you guys need some photos to keep from falling asleep.
I will slowly phase in a critique and photo selection of all of my watches, then update new ones as I go. You will hear about surprises and let downs of the watches.
Each watch brand will be analyzed, and hopefully I will find new treasures I hadn't found before.

Purpose of the Blog

I am writing this blog to celebrate these cool watches. Throughout my life, I have collected: baseball cards, autographs, DVDs. I have slowly given up on each, and I may eventually abandon my now-beloved digital watches.
But for now, there's something exciting about finding a cool new watch design, winning it on eBay, and opening up a UPS package.
I want to share the watches, and share the experience of finding new watches and acquiring them.
This blog will detail my collection and my search.

Welcome to the Blog

I have 24 digital watches with black rubber straps and silver faces. I guess this is a pretty specific blog.
My favorites are Freestyle brand watches. Modern design, solid construction, intuitive functionality, lifetime warranty.
Next up are, reluctantly, Nike brand watches. Even more cutting-edge design in some cases, and consistent watches.
The rest are various brands and designs. A Quiksilver is a favorite, an Oakley, a Puma, a Highgear.
One work week I will wear Freestyles, then the next Nikes, then the next the rest. Eventually, as my collection grows, I will have have more than five of many brands. On the radar to join the five-plus club are Nixon and Highgear.