For watch enthusiasts with collections that are expanding rather than retracting, there?s an obvious appeal to the so-called ?grab and go? watch. The nature of having a rotation of mechanical watches that you cycle through day after day leads to a problem that is in many ways inevitable, unless you?re heavily invested in watch winders: eventually, those mechanical watches are going to come to a cold stop. It?s a predicament many of us have found ourselves in. We look down at the watch box, don?t see any second hands sweeping or watches set to the right time, and we?re running out the door with precious little time to wind and set something against our favorite reference time signal. It might be a first world problem, but it?s still a problem. Victorinox has just released a simple quartz powered field watch that might be a solid candidate if you find yourself in this highly specific state with any frequency at all. 
The Swiss Army Heritage collection is relentlessly simple, and somewhat refreshing because of it. Coming in at 40mm with a straightforward dial featuring easy to read Arabic numerals and a date window at the 6:00 position, these watches have the easy legibility and general unfussiness of a classic field watch, filtered through the Victorinox design language that many enthusiasts are likely to be already familiar with. This, in some ways, is a leaner and more discreet version of what Victorinox has been doing with the I.N.O.X. line for some time. And wh...