The Registry · No. 07 of 42
Timex
9 files in the archive carry a Timex. Everything here comes from the people who wore them.
Seen more than once
Models named by more than one person, exactly as they wrote them.
The files
The James Brand x Auto GMT TWG067600The James Brand x Timex Auto GMT - TWG067600
A drone pilot with a Nevada police agency, right before a field deployment assisting SWAT.
ExpeditionTimex Expedition
A private IT network and security specialist, still in Southeast Asia and headed into a meeting with a new client to scope their security needs. New client, new opportunities, in his words. On the wrist beside the laptop, a Timex Expedition on black nylon, cream dial, 24 hour inner track, the kind of watch that gets picked once and then simply keeps showing up for work.
ExpeditionTimex Expedition
A private IT specialist on contract in Manila, brought in to build a better security system for a client, working both the IT and the everything-else the job turns out to include. On the wrist, a Timex Expedition on a blue NATO, the cream dial field watch that has been the honest answer to "what should my first watch be" for a generation. He does not need a tool watch to sit at a terminal. He wears one anyway, because a field watch reads the same whether the field is a jungle or a server room.
IronmanTimex Ironman
A member of a Crime Suppression Unit at a police department in Georgia, and the least expensive watch this page has ever run.
Deepwater Meridian 200Timex Deepwater Meridian 200
Start of nightshift somewhere in northeast Ohio, five years on the job, riding passenger tonight as the field training officer while a new hire takes the wheel. The advice he passes forward fits on an index card: every detail matters, put in the work, and have fun. On the wrist over the tattoos is a Timex Deepwater Meridian 200, the serious diver Timex started building again, its lume the only calm light in a car full of screens. Teaching the job is the job; the watch just has to keep up with both.
Expedition North Titanium GMTTimex Expedition North Titanium GMT
Two wrists from 19th Special Forces Group, photographed in Poland 14 days before the submitter closes the books on his first deployment. He is a strategic debriefer on the intelligence side, and the Timex Expedition North Titanium GMT in frame belongs to a friend, same Group, different battalion. Two wrists, one field watch and one GMT with its yellow 24 hour hand still pointed at home, which between them is most of what a deployment asks of a watch. Fourteen days and a wake up.
ExpeditionTimex Expedition
A Customs and Border Protection officer with the Passenger Analysis Unit, normally an intelligence job, working an overtime shift clearing a cargo flight at Joint Base Charleston. The pallets behind his wrist are roughly 200,000 pounds of explosives, ammunition, and training equipment inbound from overseas, every box placarded and netted down. The watch is a Timex Expedition Scout, a cream-dialed field watch that costs less than the paperwork on a single pallet. The right tool does not have to be expensive, it just has to be on your wrist when the work shows up.
Easy Reader “George W. Bush”Timex Easy Reader “George W. Bush”
An Air Force servicemember at Tierra Rejada Golf Club in Moorpark, California, pausing at the 11th hole, which is dedicated to President Ronald Reagan by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library. On the wrist, over a golf glove, is a Timex Easy Reader bearing the George W. Bush Presidential Center name beneath an American flag dial, a watch collected specifically for its tie to military history. The Easy Reader format is about legibility above all else, a clean dial that answers a simple question without ceremony. Worn beside a plaque honoring a commander in chief, by someone currently serving in uniform, the combination is a quiet note on the thread connecting American service to American history.
Deepwater ArcticTIMEX Deepwater Arctic
Happy Father's Day. A Reno Police Department drone operator who supports SWAT call-outs, patrol, the gang unit, and the intelligence center, wearing the watch his wife and daughters gave him this Father's Day, on his wrist for the first time today. He had told them he was tired of the Apple Watch and wanted a real watch back, the way he wore one in college. They listened. Some gifts land because the people giving them were paying attention all along. To the fathers out there doing the work, this one is for you.