£79 from Amazon.co.uk

Babies are renowned for chewing through anything that comes in their way – fingers, arms, wooden furniture, razor wire – and it can be pretty annoying when they chew through one of your favourite Dadgets. Watches are at particularly high risk when cuddling your child, so how about a solid Dadget watch that can also help with fatherhood’s other challenges – saving the environment for your offspring, and being on time wherever you go.

The snappily titled ‘Casio GW-056E-3VER Radio-Controlled Solar G-Shock’ is my Dadget watch of choice. Being of G-Shock pedigree means that it is resistant to slobber, milk-teeth, and milkshake blenders. The ‘Radio-Controlled’ aspect means that it automatically sets the time according to atomic clock transmitters through the UK and Europe. While having a child will make you late for everything, at least you’ll know exactly how late you are. Finally, the watch battery is charged by the sun courtesy of a solar panel on the watch face. So you will be doing your bit for the environment as you should never have to replace the battery.

I managed to import one of these fine watches from an eBay seller in Germany, but in the UK you’ll have to settle for the 1VER version which has a black-on-white LCD display rather than the snazzier white-on-black reverse display of the 3VER. Regardless, both watches both have the same great set of features and, in my opinion, look far more stylish than most of the chunky G-Shock watches that Casio tends to produce.

The 3VER works exactly as expected: it picks up the UK time signal with no trouble and gives me perfect timekeeping all day long; there is a charge indicator for the battery that went up to full after being worn outdoors during a couple of days of sunshine; and Henry has chewed it, spat on it, and given it dirty looks, all without any degradation in its desirable Dadget appearance. What more could a Daddy want?