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**The Stig** · 16 May 2009, 11:01 AM

how you are able to get some of the names is a mystery. if the writers did their research the watches would be military issue so there is a start. i hope you find your answer.

**fwupow** · 16 May 2009, 06:55 PM

Thanks STIG.

Good Advice. I actually got some of the names from another post here in Gateworld but I question their accuracy.

I'm pretty sure that I've nailed the watch that Sam Carter was wearing in Season 4. I used a screen cap from the episode "Upgrades" (one of my favorites). I'll try to post a screen cap next.

**fwupow** · 16 May 2009, 07:01 PM

Here is screen cap from Season 4 episode 3 "Upgrades" of Samantha Carter's wristwatch.

It appears to be an Invicta Women's Pro Diver Collection Watch, Model#: 8939

Oops! I may have gotten this one wrong. The band design on Carter's watch more closely resembles that of the current Ladies Omega Seamaster Professional 300m

**fwupow** · 16 May 2009, 08:09 PM

Now for Jack's watch.

I haven't identified this one yet. It appears to be a simple military style field watch with a NATO nylon band.

Unique characteristic is that it has a dodecagon (12 sided) bezel, black dial with white or nightglow numerals.

It also looks as though it may have a triangle shape on the dial at the 12 O'clock position.

It appears to be an earlier version of the Military Watch Company's MWC G10BH/G 2008 Military Quartz.
Jack was wearing this watch from the beginning of the series.

**fwupow** · 16 May 2009, 09:16 PM

An interesting tidbit of trivia:

I read somewhere that Richard Dean Anderson specifically requested the SG-1 Props department to source Suunto watches which were popular with military personnel.

RDA began wearing the Suunto Vector in the Season 5 episode 12 "Wormhole Extreme" where his character went undercover as a "Military Technical Adviser" to the fictional TV show "Wormhole Extreme" CORRECTION: Rick's Suunto made an appearance during Daniel's briefing in Season 5 episode 10 '2001', but he is also wearing the older wristwatch with the Velcro cover in most other scenes.

Might RDA have found out from SG-1's real life Military Adviser that all the cool soldiers favored the Suunto?

**fwupow** · 16 May 2009, 11:12 PM

WOW!
This took me several hours but I finally found the only watch that qualifies as a match to what Jack was wearing above.

It appears to be the circa 2001 version of the Military Watch Company's MWC G10BH/G 2008 Military Quartz

**fwupow** · 17 May 2009, 08:54 AM

Here is Jack O'Neill's G-Shock from Season 1, episode 1 "Children of the Gods":

This is the Casio G Shock DW8300-1VT.
This Watch is no longer in production. It is rare and hard to find.
It is easy to confuse with the DW8300-1VQD which has a slightly different color scheme.

The SG-1 team wore this watch on away missions throughout Seasons 1-3. This watch continued to be used by other non-SG-1 personnel who went off-world in SG team apparel. The watches can still be seen in Season 6.

ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: In this close-up from when Teal'C grabs O'Neill's wrist when SG-1 is imprisoned on Chulak, the watch is in Countdown Timer mode (Indicated by "TR" in upper left corner of display). It is showing the time to be 18 minutes after midnight or "00:18" military time and with 1 hour 57 minutes and 14 seconds left in the countdown.

**fwupow** · 17 May 2009, 11:10 PM

Here's a screen cap of General Hammond's watch from his guest appearance in Season 8, episode 12 "Prometheus Unbound".

It appears to be a Suunto X-Lander. This model was introduced in the fall of 2005. Hopefully, DSD got to keep it.

Like the Vector, it's a big fat bulky watch which really isn't worth the trouble unless your out hiking and climbing all over the countryside.

Update: Although the Vector is large, it is very lightweight. Most watches feel heavier on the wrist, in fact.

**fwupow** · 18 May 2009, 01:05 AM

Since I can't help myself, here's another screen cap of the watch Jonas Quinn was wearing in the first episode of season 6 "Redemption Pt 1":

It looks quite similar to the Casio Men's Illuminator Sport Watch Model: 87H-1V, but something's a little off. It's very hard to match up watches that are several years old because there are no images on the net of old watches. There is no online watch museum/gallery that I can find. There are plenty of watch collectors around the world but they don't publish online photo galleries of their collections.

BTW: I wonder if this wasn't Corin Nemec's personal watch, since it was quickly ditched and not seen throughout the remainder of the season (or perhaps because it was, ostensibly, Jonas' watch from Colona).

**fwupow** · 20 May 2009, 02:52 AM

Here's a couple of screen caps of Samantha Carter's wristwatch from Season 1-15 "Singularity" and Season 2-2 "In The Line of Duty"

I have no idea what this watch is. It appears to be a plain & simple women's military field watch, but I can't find anything currently on the market that looks like it.

If you look close at the scene from "In The Line of Duty" where Carter is hugging Cassandra, you'll see a continuity error where Carter's wristwatch is showing at the start of the embrace but is covered by her sleeve on the final segment.

**Bee11** · 21 May 2009, 04:44 AM

You must REALLY like watches

**fwupow** · 22 May 2009, 09:26 PM

Not especially. Watch collecting is too expensive for me. The variety of makes and models is practically endless.

Age has educated me about what I want from a watch and I found it in a $15 made-in-China item from Wal*Mart. It has large numerals for the time and the Day-of-week & Day-of-month are always showing along with the time. It also has large easy-to-press buttons that are basically flush with the case so that you don't get any inadvertant activations.

My only other watch is a Fossil which my employer gave me and I couldn't be less interested in wearing it. It's a huge, heavy chunk of metal which doesn't tell you the day of the week and I can't see any way to adjust the band to fit my wrist even if I did want to wear it.

I just sort of drift from one interest to another. There are so many things for a person to get interested in. It's a shame we don't live longer. It's kind of like a Where's Waldo game. If you have cable or satellite DVR, try it yourself. When you see somebody's watch showing, pause and zoom and try to find out what kind of Watch they're wearing. It might be a $100,000.00 Audemars Piguet which would tell you how much of a snob they are.

**Bee11** · 23 May 2009, 02:10 AM

So it's a way you can learn about an individual, by what watch they wear?

**fwupow** · 23 May 2009, 02:06 PM

Well, perhaps, it adds a little something, but you know you can't really peg somebody by such things.

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