Seiko 5 Sports
A narcotics detective with the San Diego PD, photographed in the vehicle before serving a warrant at a narc house, a green Seiko 5 Sports on a NATO strap resting over the radio and the duty belt. He put it plainly: always been a watch guy, and he went the way most people do not, off the Apple Watch and back to analog. The SDPD patch sits just under the wrist. When your job runs on radios and screens, a watch that only tells time is its own kind of statement. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Seiko 5 Sports
The Seiko 5 Sports line took over the everyman-mechanical role when the SKX retired, built around the 4R36 automatic with hand winding, hacking, and a day-date, at a price that makes it the default answer to first real watch. This is the green field variant with a compass bezel and Arabic numerals, made in Japan, meant to be worn hard and not fussed over. It is the watch you buy when you want mechanical without wanting to worry about it.
San Diego PD, Narcotics
The submitter works the narcotics unit at the San Diego Police Department and shot this before serving a warrant. His watch story is a small rebellion a lot of people have quietly staged: he wore an Apple Watch, then went back to analog, back to a thing that keeps time and does nothing else. On a wrist surrounded by the radios and screens the job demands, the choice reads clearly enough.