What time is it? Watches and horology

Once I worked out how to AC it, it’s ticking over nicely. Must say that Casio were lazy.

The year will only go from 1980 to 2020. Livid. Here I am, living in 1984.

On one hand, it's rather annoying to have what seems like either an arbitrary limitation, or one imposed by an impressive degree of stinginess with compute...

But on the other, who ever needs their watch to tell them the year, and either the year isn't constantly displayed as in your case so meh, or it is visible on the default display, in which case it's proudly vintage.

Casio seems to specialise in generating a strong urge in nerds to go and work for them, via creating awesome watches which almost universally obviously lack one feature or another... And also by apparently forgetting just how cool and awesome they used to make them, and mostly doing a bunch of boring same-old stuff for the last twenty years.

The new ABL-100 is pretty nifty, but how about bringing back EL backlights, and doing some more full dot matrix stuff? I reckon I could cook up some designs which would generate nerdgasms galore and blur the line between smartwatches and the low-power passive LCD niftiness of yore far more than the ABL-100... WTF, Casio? Pull your finger out!