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Everything I need from a functional watch I have in my G-Shock. It's also accurate to a silly degree, solar powered, chrono, world-time, alarm, and the face is 100% analogue (no LCD on this).
what watch is this? Am interested in getting a do everything watch which is super robust, let me know..
cornelius_blackfoot-
casio protrek manaslu
Not as robust as a G-shock. But it does have a world time, led, compass, 6 band radio control, stopwatch, water resistant, thermometer, barometer, alarm, altimeter, solar powered and no LCD.
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what watch is this? Am interested in getting a do everything watch which is super robust, let me know..
It's just one of the G-Shock MTG range:
http://www.gshock.com/resource/html/MTG_Collection.html
http://www.g-shock.co.uk/premiumlist.aspx?cat=9The one I bought was circa £450 at the time, and was this one:
http://www.watchshop.com/mens-casio-g-shock-premium-mt-g-alarm-chronograph-watch-mtg-1200b-1aer-p99943612.htmlThey have all you'd imagine from a modern chrono: solar powered, radio-sync to atomic clocks, world time, etc. And they have all you'd imagine from a G-Shock: ruggedness, reliability, durability, etc.
I had taken a small chunk out of my Sinn and I wanted an everyday watch that I could destroy (or try to) and not care so much about. I didn't want a digital LCD though... just something that looked analogue but had this incredible ruggedness.
Bärli_Bär
Velocio
Everything I need from a functional watch I have in my G-Shock. It's also accurate to a silly degree, solar powered, chrono, world-time, alarm, and the face is 100% analogue (no LCD on this).
Everything I need from an aesthetic watch I have in my Sinn. It's beautiful, looks understated and refined with suits and in high class settings. It looks great and tells the time pretty well (and as with all automatics has a little drift on time over time... so you ignore it being out by 10-30 seconds here and there).
All of the smart watches, for me, solve a problem I do not have. Reaching into a pocket to pull my phone out, this isn't a critical problem I need solving.
If I want anything from technology, it's not a watch. It's probably more a Star Trek badge, the Culture terminal. It's a lapel badge, brooch or pendant that can be tapped (doesn't passively listen - saves battery), wakes up and listens for a voice command. It then issues the command to something else (tablet, phablet, phone, etc) which deals with figuring out the request, generates the response (if needed) and then speaks it back to me.
Whatever it is I want from technology, it doesn't have a "face", there is no screen to it.
Smart watches can frankly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They're all DOA, as they solve a problem that doesn't exist, and do not solve a need that does exist.