Want to upgrade your F-91W? The open-source Sensor Watch is a board-swap that uses the same display, housing, and wrist-strap but lets you program your own functionality.
Rolex has spent the last 50 years trying to rebrand itself as a luxury watch brand but they started out as sport watches. Essentially what this Casio watch is.
The people that designed Rolex watches wanted them to be basically indestructible. They’re wildly over-engineered. They have shockmounts so you can drop them without breaking the balance staff and most are waterproof.
That’s because Swiss precision is meaningless when a $1 chip can keep time better than a $6k mechanical watch. The only way they can survive is by selling the luxury angle.
Oh trust me, I understand. I own mechanical watches because there is a definite romantic appeal to them.
However, I have had more than one seiko automatic die from vibration while riding motorcycles. Even high end watches like Rolexes can have -4/+8 seconds per day timekeeping error and be within “normal” tolerances.
Meanwhile, a cheap digital quartz watch will typically be accurate to within a few seconds a month, even before we consider that many of them can sync to atomic clocks. They’re also pretty much indestructible.
I lost my Casio watch somewhere in my closet about 3 years ago (I am very lazy).
I still hear it beep every hour.
place a marker halfway in your closet. every hour stand at the marker and see if the beep is to your left or right. Should be able to find it in <8 attempts.
the only alternative is to piss off your S.O. by asking if they’ve seen it and then they’ll find it instantly
Get what works. Fuck all those dick measuring contests.
My wife is in the army. This is the watch that soldiers wear; it has every function you need, and absolutely none that you don’t, and it’s cheap as shit so you can afford it on your crappy military pay. It will not give a flying fuck what kind of abuse you put it through, and in a pinch it will probably stop a bullet.