Some of the watches on the Svalbard site are backwards, turning counter-clockwise. 
And a few of those are in Eastern Arabic numerals, which makes me wonder: do analogue clocks in langauges that read right-to-left regularly turn counter-clockwise? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I have 2 Citizen Eco-Drives. One is about 10 year old and is my every day watch. Despite being a bit beat up around the edges, it keeps perfect time. The other was free, the last cruise my wife and I took offered enough ship board credits to still get the Citizen and my wife a pair of diamond earrings. This is my dress up watch.
My 10-year-old $30 analog ON-TIME brand TALKING Atomic wristwatch talks to me at the push of one of its 4 buttons, telling me either the time or the day/date. The only (very minor) complication is that the control button for changing settings sometimes says “USA time updated” instead of letting me get right to the control for the other buttons, to set or change the alarm time or turn the alarm on or off. It’s been about 4 years since the battery was replaced at the kiosk in the local mall.
Passport? Birth Cert? Pink Slip for your car?
This is my daily driver. I like it pretty simple.
Simplest plainest possible analog Seiko. All I need is the time, thanks.
Note: since my last post, one of the “everydays” has been replaced with another chronograph with the usual chronograph complications, but this one a much cheaper more casual one (OK it’s a $60 Timex) that takes on the role of “I don’t care what happens” watch.
Eh, for most of us those rate a locking file cabinet. My socioeconomic stratum is such the kind of burglar that breaks into my place is looking for cash or things they can cash fast in the street.
But yeah, at least some sort of lockbox for this sort of thing. And a bank vault for the tech demonstration/art project in the OP.
For those with multiple complications, the follow-up question would be how many of those do you use (or know how to use?) When I was younger I thought complicated multi-dial chronographs looked cool. But I later developed a preference for simplifying to what I actually used. I think it looks a tad amusing to see some desk jockey sporting a watch that could be used by a scuba diver or something.
I have a 10-15 year-old cheapo digital Timex Ironman for the rare occasions that I wish to time something like a bike ride.
Shirt pocket, file folder in ordinary filing cabinet in home office, DMV’s computer.
The issue for such documents is not theft , but fire or other disaster.
It’s a watch, not a pregnancy. I have a few, mostly cheap copies. I like a date and water resistance. For the gym a stopwatch or timer is useful. I don’t really want a watch to tell me the moon phase or more than two alarms. Plainer is better.
That’s also my watch which I’ve had for … gosh so long I can’t remember. Syncs to the atomic clock. Does need to be manually told if it is daylight savings and which time zone I am in.
I love it but could do without three of its four complications. Date I like. The rest is superfluous. I don’t need to be told where in the 24 hour day this hour is as a separate dial. The stopwatch is never used, I’ve never referenced the day of the week but which shares a dial that goes by 20s to 100 marked at 00. Don’t know or care what that is for.
I spent $8.88 on mine. It has the time in 12 or 24 hour format, a stopwatch, an alarm, and a backlight. I guess that makes four complications.
Just three, really. Zulu time, as well as a 24-hour dial (not really sure what the purpose of that last one is), and I suppose one could count the digital display for multiple time zones etc.
Citizen Promaster AT Skyhawk. Of course it has the slide rule bezel, which as a non-pilot, is really only useful for making quick conversions (multiplication/division) with not very great precision. Fortunately I often carry a basic circular slide rule for those times when I must find the cube root of something! I kid, but only slightly…the larger slide rule is very convenient for getting a quick set of divisions to find out things like head count needed to make rate for our department, etc., and it’s also just plain neat.
Not even a chronograph complication: that’s handled via the digital display, and I use the countdown timer many times a day at work. No date insert, either…that’s done via the digital display as well.
The other complication, I suppose, shows signal strength to the cesium clock at Fort Collins, CO, as well as the solar-powered capacitor/battery strength.
So, it’s a busy-looking watch, works very well for me as a daily driver, but it actually doesn’t have many complications in the traditional sense.
My only other watch at the moment is a basic Timex Expedition Chronograph…just the usual chronograph dials, and date. And with an added Suunto compass attached to the NATO strap. Solid, basic field watch. Not all that accurate…time needs adjusting to true every few weeks to be dead-on balls accurate.
I have a three watches with date and also day-of-week. One has the abbreviation for the day of week right next to the date (Seiko Kinetic), two have the full day spelled out at the top. (The Seiko has the day in Arabic switchable to English, one is in Italian, one is in French.)
I have a fully mechanical skeleton watch that shows day/night with a sun and moon, and a dial with an hour hand for a second time zone.
I have a watch with date and moon phases. It was branded as Axcess which is I think a defunct mall clothing chain where I bought it. I don’t know who manufactured it.