Best solar field watches

Sapphire on a Super Titanium case, rated 100m, with Citizen's five-year limited warranty and no battery to change — the Chandler below with the two upgrades it always needed.

42mm across, on a leather strap, and Citizen publishes neither the thickness, the lug-to-lug nor the band width for this reference.

Sapphire is the upgrade the 37mm Chandler never got, on a Super Titanium case with Citizen's five years of cover. Citizen publishes neither the thickness, the lug-to-lug nor the band width for this reference, so try it on before you commit to 42mm.

10.4mm thick with sapphire, a locking screw-down crown and 100m, on an Epson VS-42 solar movement Vaer rates at -10/+20 seconds a month with a six-month reserve.

Two years of warranty, and assembled in the United States according to Vaer. Sold direct; we earn nothing on this link.

Sapphire, a locking screw-down crown, 100m and a published accuracy of -10/+20 seconds a month in a case 10.4mm thick. Vaer states it is assembled in the United States. Sold direct; we earn nothing on it.

Sapphire and 100m at 36mm and 44.5mm lug-to-lug — the solar field watch for a wrist the others overhang.

Timex's one-year warranty excludes the crystal, strap, case and battery, which is the weak point of the whole line.

The smallest genuinely good watch here. Sapphire, solar, 100m and 44.5mm across the lugs — if you have a small wrist and want to stop thinking about batteries, start here.

37mm on nylon, 100m, light-powered and covered for five years — very little to go wrong and nothing that will date.

A mineral crystal where the Garrison has sapphire.

37mm, 18mm lugs, 100m, no battery, five years of cover. There is very little here to go wrong and almost nothing that will date.