1997-2006 Marine infantryman.....Gshocks dominated my days. I was curious of active duty use. Thank's brotha. Stay safe

Had it for 3 years and have put it through everything from hikes to high altitude, low opening jumps to diving in the north Atlantic. Watch can take one hell of a beating.

This is older but a quick tip for the focus distance issue with your nvg's- you can either manually focus your nvg's, or if you put scope caps with a pinhole punched in the center to the objective lenses it will increase the focal plane (while letting in less light, so YMMV) and allow you to see things closer to your face without having to mess with the focus rings. You can also do this with the bikini strap covers most NVG's come with when issued/purchased.

I cant believe from a military standpoint you didnt do the review on the gps and trekking

I’ve left this on my bag when travelling in the sun and back to 100% battery through solar alone. I don’t use HR or step count…doesn’t really matter to me but the numerous timers I can use at the same time and screen legibility is amazing!

I have the solar instinct, one, and use it for about three years, and I absolutely love it! I will probably upgrade on the next. Series set comes out for sure. Are use this when I go hiking and camping/hiking with the Matt on it. I can always backtrack my steps and get back on the main trail or find my launch point. The navigation on this is very good, in my opinion, and granite is very limited. Got lost once while on a hiking trail easily found my way back to the starting point.

Just got mine in moss. Loving it so far

Great review, thank you! Right on schedule, with the Instinct 2 now

Thank you for this review. I currently have this watch and got it strictly for military use and have thought about upgrading to the Charlie or Delta. Still on the fence yet. Thanks again for reminding me of the smoke features it has.

Can read with additional iris installed

The instinct actually is allowed in SCIFs, but I'd still recommend checking with your specific SCIF

Question about the Night mode that I haven't seen anybody answer. My buddy wore an apple watch out one time and we realized we could what was basically an IR strobe on his wrist. It was the HR monitor function. Does night mode turn this off so that I would not have a blinking wrist? Or at least a way to turn it off manually?

Thanks for the review on this watch. I've been eyeballing it and afterwards checked out the Instinct 2, but that's a fair more amount of coin. My biggest concern is the glass. I've got a Casio Pro-trek PRG-300CM solar model that I've had for years and it has been abused (like all watches I've owned) and it's got pretty good glass. My Garmin vivoactive hr (90 yrs old or so) finally died and I want one to track my rucks. Thinking of the GB challenge in Feb. Anyway, I appreciate the time you took and the BLUF approach. Also PVS-30's?? I'm still using a PVS-14 g3 but one of these days I'm going WP, but I don't know I'll ever go the binos route.

I'm going to have to get this watch. I'm not in the Military, but I am married and wars break out all the time and I am sure I will be on Many, Many Tours or maybe Touring for the rest of my life?

Preciate the video.

I have the regular solar instinct. Even at 20% brightness, it does not wash out the NVGs and won’t ruin your eyes night vision. I really don’t think the tactical version is necessary.

Thanks for WATCHING .... bars :D

Hi there! How's the instinct holding up? Still durable enough for you?

I can't decide if I want this or the bravo

Nice review.

I wish I got the Tatical version, I had a Mudmaster carbon and I have a huge habit of looking at the time it's pretty excessive , I had my old gray mock neck PT shirt under a hoodie a couple days ago , I looked down and my battery light was flashing..I have a tendency with G Shock because of the Huge buttons to hit certain modes and it drained my battery..so I went with the Instinct solar 2 basically because theirs nothing here but a best buy , actually so far Plesently surprised

Better a fenix7 delta? Thnks

Instinct or Rangeman G-shock?

I have question? It's working under the water?

Hey man thinking about buy this watch. I’m just curious on how to plot 8/10 digit grid. Do you need your phone?

Buy a solar power bank and use that to help charge the watch and to save the money

My PVS-31D’s can see it :)

Is this the second one ?

i rather get a rangeman nav gshock

Can you add tide and sunrise/set information to the watch?

I’m planning to join the Military and I was wondering if I could use that kind of watch when I go in like the Navy because I wanna be a Navy SEAL so would this watch be okay to wear

Luke Gabriel @lukegabriel8106 It's been a year and you still can't see your watch? You're so knowledgeable, it's surprising you missed this easy one. Put a shutter cap over your 31 lens. At the expense of a darker image, you will see near (your watch) and mid range ~50-75 it depends.. You can make or buy one or a set. I don't want to recommend mattbutts because they're racists. You can also dump your 31 for 1531 that have 25cm mfd so a bit less than 10 inches. Researching to find the best watch to wear that is night vision compatible. At about $6000 the Breitling Chronospace Military is pretty expensive that holds some resale value! The tactix® 7 - Pro Ballistics Edition is $1600 for a plastic watch with little resale value as tech improves and no touch screen! So what's left? I'm surprised that many of the marketed cool-guy popular tactical "dive" watches and Casio are not NVG compliant. Someone should review all the NVG compliant tac watches. Something with a user changeable CR2032 battery, solar and atomic clock that can go "stealth mode" would be nice to set it and forget it. The next point many miss is, that some of the more expensive "Luxury" cool guy tactical watches require that the user send the watch back for servicing just to switch out batteries, because the watch will lose its pressure rating seal and need to be sealed properly again! Why can't these idiots make a watch where the user can change batteries, like on optics, lasers, etc., where these units don't lose their pressure seal and do not require factory service? Do you send your optics, red dots and lasers back for servicing each time you switch out batteries for new ones? Watches should meet this minimum expectation. Some of us like to switch out batteries for new ones, every time we go out! I don't care if the factory states a battery will last 500 hours to 7 years, we like to switch them out every time we go out! A "tactical mil watch" should meet this minimum requirement for my use!