0sharesFrom Garmin to Suunto, Roger Hughes looks at 7 of the best sailing watches available right now. With the arrival of another of those significant birthdays, (I’m not telling which one), my wife asked me if I would like a sailing watch. She knew I have never owned a decent sailing watch, and the ancient seven-day wind-up ships chronometer on our schooner was unreliable – especially when we forgot to wind it up.Of course, nowadays you don’t need a ship’s clock to tell the time accurately, because any number of digital gadgets, including your mobile phone, will give microsecond accuracy.I actually didn’t know what a sailing watch was until I started looking at them on the web. The first thing which struck me was the sheer number – actually absolutely hundreds – of watches that go by the name ‘sailing watches’.It seems like every watchmaker in the world makes wrist-watches that they call sailing watches. But many are just ordinary chronograph stop-watches with fancy dials. Some are horrendously expensive fashion watches, which I would be frightened to even wear on a boat.
Source: Best sailing watches: 7 options that actually help on your boat – YBW
