I noticed that everyone had a flashlight (duh) and a knife. I also noticed that almost everyone still wore a watch. I stopped wearing a watch a few years ago since it's a hassle changing the batteries and I always carry my phone with me so I always have the time. I looked into kinetic and solar watches but for ladies the selection is limited and either you pay an arm and a leg or it's Fugly as all heck....

I came across that site a few days ago, thought it gave me some new things to think about.

... I also noticed that almost everyone still wore a watch. I stopped wearing a watch a few years ago since it's a hassle changing the batteries and I always carry my phone with me so I always have the time. I looked into kinetic and solar watches but for ladies the selection is limited and either you pay an arm and a leg or it's Fugly as all heck....

Unless you're worried about being lost and needing more precise compass directions than the sun itself or trees/rocks can provide, EDC of a watch may not be all that important.
If you're just getting from work or a regular region and home, you should know the general direction you need to head.
If you're trying to beat through brush, you should be grabbing some other gear that's just as fugly and a small compass that's good enough for those purposes can be had the size of a C battery and a half-inch deep.

Having the sunrise-sunset times are more important in a survival situation, though, and knowing the fingers per hour left on the horizon.
Watches can run fast and slow, but if you have a time within 5-10 minutes, you can set a dead watch to sunrise, then use line of sight objects in trios to maneuver along the angle you need over super-dense or wide open spaces.
Then you recheck shortly after midday and at sunset, which you planned for and are all snuggled into camp because of the finger trick.

If you're mostly going to be at home, grab an analog alarm clock.
If you get the wind up kind, no biggie, write yourself a note on your pillow to wind it up at night and stick another by your toothbrush, or get the kind that can take batteries and buy a dozen refills and 2 sets of chargers for them.
I prefer the wind-up in that case, and an alarm not just a wall clock, but whatever floats your boat.

If it's just important to you to have a watch and you really want a solar or kinetic, leave it in your dash or attached to a bag so it can get the light it needs, and plan to only use it if you need it.

I wear a watch because parts of my hobbies and work include being messed up enough I don't want to touch any electronics, let alone be digging through a pocket.
I don't buy nice watches anymore, though.
I buy some silver-gold combo (so I can change earrings, necklaces or belts on a whim) and some small black nylon or brown leather watches at K-Mart, 1-2 and a spare battery for it every time I lose or wreck a watch, and spend $30-40 every 3 years. I mostly just spend that much because my watches get abused and left on random sinks while I'm scrubbing to my elbows.

A watch might be nice for a team if anybody's going out on patrol, but for an LP/OP or just a home watch or neighborhood watch, another set of alarm clocks works just as well in position.
Meeting up with people at a certain time might be important, possibly, depending on the situation, but are their watches and clocks going to be perfectly tuned to Denver still?

I wouldn't stress the watch one way or another, dude.

So I cruised through 15 pages of the website. I'm assuming this is all stuff that is ALWAYS in pockets or on the person in the form of a bag. I tend to carry similar in my pockets, and my daily bags are a little insane. I am never out of the house without an expandable asp or firearm, and a large-ish thermal carrier for a water bottle and extras. Having pets and a reputation for being spastic about them tends to buy me leeway when I'm asked, and people also see me pick up trash as we go, so other extras (like gloves and spare bags) tend to get overlooked.

What did strike me as regular lapses are:
-Alcohol wipes, cloth bandaids for blisters and splinters and rough cans, and chapstick (lots of daily disaster as well as Big Uh-Oh disaster uses)
-I am the only person who carries eye drops without wearing contacts? They make them in these oober small little tubes that fit in a mini Altoids tin with some of the above and some small moleskin squares and...
-A teaspoon of KMnO4 (goes a long way, fire or water) or a few tablets for safe water
-Nobody carries quarters for a machine anymore? Or perfect dollar bills that won't get wet so they can get water or crackers for Muttley? (Also fit in an Altoids tin)
-I'm seeing a loot of car keys, but no pneumatic window punches. I have to assume those are velcroed or taped to a steering column or dash, and the knives are in a position where they can be accessed to cut the seatbelt no matter what angle we end up in when the car lands in a big ditch or pond.

The biggest lacks I'm seeing are:
- a 3- or 4-way silcock key (pockets or pouch; outdoor faucets with no knobs)
- a decent* screwdriver (pocket for me, pouch for others)
- a decent* wrench or set of pliers (probably pouch)
*Decent is the key. I've bent or stripped out or chipped too many on good, good multi tools just taking apart a laptop or fixing a stapler to trust that those multi-tools are sufficient. God alone can keep track of the ones damaged at the range, on mowers and trimmers and saws-alls, or opening various cans.

Some of the people posting on this page drive really nice cars to be carrying kind of crappy knives. And I saw a real lack of tissue, "emergency" feminine products (female use and excellent in first aid and first starters), and hankies. I think I only saw a few bandanas.