No; we're not talking about a "night watch" as in the guy who walks around punching a clock at various locations. When I was at SHOT Show I saw a booth for the NITE Watch company. I had never heard of them so I picked up some of their printed material. They were interesting looking watches that were new (to me) on the market. Before I would consider them for serious field use I would have to test one. The reps didn't seem warmly open to the idea. But when Brigade Quartermasters started carrying the NITE Watch line, I took it as a hint that the watches might be worth a look. Thanks to the good folks at BQ I requested and received a T&E NITE watch and promptly began to wear it 24/7 in all conditions. Here's what I found out about my test sample and the NITE Watch line.

The MX10, shown in the picture, is the watch I got for T&E. Using it as representative of the NITE Watch line, I have to say I'm favorably impressed. Now, that said, bear in mind that I've no tools for measuring how many 100ths of a second the watch gains or loses in a week's time. And truth be told, as long as the watch will stay within a minute over the span of a month, I'm okay with it. Others may be pickier, but I only need to be so precise in my timing in my day to day life.

So when I first got the watch I got online and went to the National Time Clock site for the United States. I set the watch for the time shown for my time zone to within one second of what was shown. That done I put it on my wrist and wore it, except to bed, for the next several weeks straight. I performed my normal routine during that time which involved your typical office work, yard work, house work, fishing a couple times, some wood chopping, etc. The watch got wet in the rain, in the shower and under the hose. It took some hits from various things as I did yard work and it certainly put up with plenty of vibration while I mowed the lawn and weed-whacked. At the end of the couple weeks of "wear and tear" I took it back in and sat down at the computer to look up the time on the National Time Clock site. It still held time to within one second of what the website said. It hadn't changed at all that I could tell.