Interesting Wrist Watches?

brobak asks: "I've always been interested in interesting, wearable timepieces, and lately I've been wanting to start my own collection. They needn't be wiz-bang, high tech gizmo's, so much as interesting ways of displaying the time. What are some unique, or interesting time pieces that Slashdot readers own? Where should I start my collection?"

Not to rip on you guys but

[hobotron]

Ever since my watch battery ran out and I didnt get another, Ive found Im really good at knowing the time without one, clocks are everywhere so you can recalibrate when you enter a building etc, also when I used to work outside, I became very adept at knowing the time by the position of the sun, (the one thing that Daylight savings fucks up when the time changes, I bet farmers are pissed too).

Anyways, im not knocking your habit of collecting time telling devices, just saying you already have a fairly accurate one built in.

Re:Japanese Domestic Market Watches

[techno-vampire]

I think the best bang for the buck in Japanese domestic market watches is the Seiko Alpinist -- $300 -- and includes auto calendar, GMT hand, titanium, and 5 year battery.

Nice, but a $50 Timex or Boliva will tell the time just as well.

Old hat

[Oldsmobile]

Frankly, I think watches are kinda old hat.

Cell phones have clocks on them, why would you want to carry two time pieces on you?

Re:Show your UberGeek status!

[AndroidCat]

Why would you need a watch to display the phase of the moon? Surely you know that already from Nethack.

Re:binary watches

[Tango42]

I have a binary watch, it took a couple of months to learn to read it quickly (you have to learn tricks like what various pairs of numbers add up to and then you add the pairs togethers, etc. Of course there are some combinations you just learn - half past is 011110, for example).

I'm at a top Uni, so the demographic may be a little atypical, but I find people are generally quite interested in it - they usually give up after a few seconds and just ask me what is says, of course.

I even worked in a pub at home over the holidays (old style English country pub, lots of old farmers, etc) and the regulars used to have great fun getting me to show it to everyone that came in. I think it was only about 50% taking the piss - the other 50% was genuine interest.

By far the most fun thing I've found about my watch is what happens when the battery is running low - it starts flashing random bits at you.