The Surfing Blog

I love to surf dawn patrol. It is one of the few things I don’t mind waking up early for. Back when I started to wake up early and hit the waves before work, school, or other things I had to do, I quickly realized that a watch is pretty essential so that I would be able to get out on time and not be late to whatever it was I had to do that day. I love watches and I didn’t want just any watch. I wanted a watch that I could wear all day. I wanted to wear it in the water and have it still be an attractive watch throughout the day. Like Tim’s Nixon watch purchase, I too found the Quiksilver Drop-In watch on Whiskeymilitia.com.

The Drop-In is everything I wanted in a surf watch. I even got the chrono version which means it has an analog stop watch built in. Some features of the watch are:

- Solid stainless steel case

- Solid stainless steel screw down case back

- Polyurethane strap

- Mineral crystal face (doesn’t scratch easily)

- Date

The watch is solid. The other day I was walking out of my apartment holding my surfboard and trying to put my watch on at the same time and I dropped it down the concrete stairs (I live on the 2^nd floor). The watch bounced down the steps and I thought it was either going to be broken or scratched up bad. It had no scuffs and works fine. It can definitely take a beating.

The polyurethane strap is a must for a surf watch. Leather gets heavy and stinky after getting wet and metal straps I find to be heavy and they can scratch up your board. The polyurethane is durable and comfortable yet still looks good.

The one thing I would change about this watch to make it a little more useful as a surf watch is instead of the stop watch capabilities I would use the dials on the face to set a tide. I hardly ever use the stop watch feature and would use a tide feature more often. My friend has the Nixon Lodown and I find myself asking him all the time about the tide.

In all, if you are looking for an attractive surf watch, the Quiksilver Drop-In is a great choice.

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