Avast, me mateys, I have bad news:
The U.S. Navy SEALs don’t
wear Luminox watches. Sure, sure, you’ve read statements to that effect on the
internet, before. There have been hints and allegations, but now you have 100%
proof (of a very small sized sample) that they don’t wear Luminox. How do I know what kinds of watches the SEALs
wear?
Mind you, it’s all very hush-hush. I can’t tell you too
much, but here’s what I can tell you:
Several weeks ago, my boss asked me into his office. He got
up, closed the door and told me about a training exercise that we would be participating
in with the cops.
And the U.S. Navy.
And the U.S. Navy.
When he specified “the U.S. Navy” I smiled. Who else’s navy
would our local police department go out and play “cops and robbers” with?
So, the scenario was this: the cops would be “the good guys”
while “the U.S. Navy” would be “the bad guys”. I smiled a second time. The only
navy guys I could think qualified to take part in this type of training would
be the SEALs.
Excellent.
Okay, fast forward to two weekends ago. I arrive in the port at 2100 (9:00 p.m. to you civilians).
In the spirit of Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, and Frank Military (a writer on
NCIS—his real name), their small, powerful boat is moored in an anonymous part
of the harbor—not at the navy base. A
bunch of guys in camo fatigues are standing around. Yes, they were wearing
those cool fatigues that they wore in “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Captain Phillips”.
Okay, so here’s the long and the short of it: most of them
wore digital watches, while one of them wore some kind of gigantic Swiss watch
that his rich dad the lawyer must have bought him. It was either a Hublot or an Audemar Piguet.
It was so big and bling-bling, that at first I was horrified that he was
wearing an Invicta (shudder), until I got a better look at it. Then there was the one SEAL who was my hero:
He was wearing a Citizen Autozilla.
This is Ranger 425's watch, not the one I saw on the fast boat.
I was going to wear my Doxa 600T (My love-hate relationship
with that watch continues. I wear it to work several days a week). I was
denifitely not going to wear either of my Luminoxes. I wasn’t going to have the
SEALs look at my wrist, and refuse to let me board their boat.
And now, for the good news: several of the cops wore
Luminoxes. I'm sure that all that tritium was useful when we got off the boat at 0200 (2:00 in the morning, for you civilians), and drove home.
