Interesting Wrist Watches? 231
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?"
Mondaine Don't Rush watch (Score:5, Interesting)
Milieris (Score:3, Interesting)
Start Your Collection at number 007 (Score:3, Interesting)
The Rolex Blackface Oyster is coveted worldwide.
Atomic clock sync (Score:3, Interesting)
Today, for $50-60 US, you can get an atomic clock sync'd watch which recharges with solar power. That will be my next watch, but probably after it cheapens a little....
To me, watches are mainly functional. Nothing keeps better time than my watch, but lots of things cost more...
I like my Atomic one... (Score:3, Interesting)
Travel to Hong Kong. (Score:3, Interesting)
You'll be able to start a large collection of many different styles for not very much money. And on top of that you will have traveled around and have a story for all of your watches. The story really makes the watch.
Other than that, try a
Casio Waveceptor [casio.co.uk] (note, doesn't work in New England)
Fossil PDA Watch [beiks.com]
USB Watch [thinkgeek.com]
YES watch [yeswatch.com]
MP3 watch [ohgizmo.com]
Sleep Tracker Watch [gearlive.com] (too bad it is so ugly)
Tokyo Flash [tokyoflash.com]
Nike Watches [nike.com] (always something interesting)
Also, consider pocketwatches. They're rare enough that you get immediate oddball points for using one, but they're common enough that you can find interesting ones [russianlegacy.com].
Re:binary watches (Score:5, Interesting)
I was very disappointed when I opened my binary clock and found that each base-10 digit was represented in binary, so 35 would be 0011 0101, rather than 100011, as it should be.
My Coolest Watches (Score:3, Interesting)
Omega Speedmaster Pro - only watch worn on the moon
HP-001 - only RPN calculator watch
Nixie Watch - only watch based on vacuum tubes
Water powered watch! (Score:1, Interesting)
If anyone remembers this watch......
Digital kanji numeral watch (Score:3, Interesting)
Unfortunately I can't seem to find any pictures of it on the internet, but Fossil made a great watch which had Chinese/Japanese numerals for both the hours (printed on the face; not that hard to find) and the seconds (digital!). Sets you back about Y8500 in Japan. Mine has a deep blue face and always gets attention.
The men's version is big and heavy, and the LCDs forming the numbers aren't the rectangular ones we're used to. Rather, they crafted the shapes of them so that the numerals look like they're written with a brush or pen. There are a couple of kludges -- the "1", which is normally a horizontal line through the center, reuses the bottom of the "3" so it's a single horizontal line at the base, and rather than use the perfectly-circular kanji zero, they used the 10 sign instead (looks like a big plus sign if you're unfamiliar with Chinese). So it counts '57, 58, 59, 60, 01, 02...'
The problem is that when I wear it in the US, people inevitably say, "Oh, that's right; you live in Japan. Of course you'd have an all-Japanese watch."
To which I have to reply, "No, this thing is special and rare and you can't find it just anywhere. This is the first-ever watch with digital kanji numerals. See? Look at... hey, wait, come back here!"