I'm currently looking for a new wrist watch. My current one (Casio
WV-59E) is radio controlled and its battery dies within a few months.
However, it is merely impossible to find a reasonable watch for a
reasonable price. Here's the feature list of my "ideal" watch:
o Digital (no mechanical parts)
o Time (hour, minute, seconds, 24h format) and date (weekday, year,
month, day -- preferrably YYYY-MM-DD format)
o Easy to read, big display, no distractions
o No light (accidentally hit the button and you waste battery life)
o ... or at least "sunk" buttons
o Long battery life (several years)
We're living in the year 2012 now, we have smart phones and
everything. But there's no good watch. This is bizarre.
The thing is, I consider my "ideal watch" to be a simple watch. I
don't think a watch like this is an expensive piece of hardware. Now,
look at the watches out there:
o Cheap watches are stuffed with useless features and are unusable
(you can barely read most of them)
o Simple watches with a clean display are extremely expensive
What the hell? Are you serious?
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I just realized that a solar panel might solve (most of) those
problems. Something like the Casio GW-7900-1ER. It's not cheap (about
120 EUR), though. I still think that model is ugly and bulky and
equipped with lots of useless crap, but, whatever.
Due to the solar panel, it's irrelevant if there's a light button or
other useless stuff. It should even provide the watch with enough
power to comfortably do all the radio controlled stuff.
This watch is far from "simple". It's not a K.I.S.S. device (as
requested above). I'm tempted, though.
