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To: Up Yours Marxists
Stick with Tag Heuer, Breitling, Rado, and Rolex.

You overpaid.

My current watch is an eleven-year-old Casio, which cost about $130 (titanium band — leather was about $80). Tells perfect time on its analog face. Sets itself every morning to the atomic clock (WWVB). Charges itself via solar cells in its face — no need to change batteries. The Japanese have forgotten more about horology than the Swiss know.

It's only defect is having to have the zone offset changed when traveling — e.g., Boston to Denver means manually changing the offset from -5 to -7 and watching the hands twirl around to the new time (it takes care of DST automatically).

Reportedly, Seiko has a model that gets its time from GPS. Thus, it's able to set the zone automatically, since it knows where it is...

Of course, the Apple Watch would be just as accurate and also not have the zone problem, right? Plus, there are all those potential benefits from hooking into the iPhone world. Not to mention, while more expensive than the Casio, it's cheaper than the Seiko...

227 posted on 04/24/2015 2:21:57 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

The worst $49 Casio is better than the best Apple watch. Apple has hit an iceberg and is sinking. Good riddance to homo-rubbish!


231 posted on 04/24/2015 3:33:49 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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