Pardon me, but do you have the time?

It does look kinda cool. I like the thinness of it, not the fan of the dial. I agree it does look kinda cheap, probably easy to break and way overpriced!
 
Uh oh, I have a new watch fetish...LED 1970's Pulsars. You can get one for under $100. You change the time and date with a magnet and need a special battery casing cause modern batteries don't fit. These things are neat.



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My older brother-in-law got an LED watch when they first came out that looked exactly like this
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I thought it was a Seiko, but this one is a Timex. Anyway, it cost him around $300 if I recall, which was a lot of money in 1974 or so. Especially considering that all it did was show the time or date, when you pressed the impossibly stiff button.
 
The Mrs got it for me a few years ago.
It's got a good solid weight to it, and the offset design is pretty cool. (IMHO)
 
HecticArt said:
the offset design is pretty cool.
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Yea, it is.

It reminds me of some cheap water powered watch I had as a kid. I remember mine being blue, but it was similar to this:

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Of course that was a cheap gimmicky kids watch and yours is a slick looking fancy one but the placement of the screen is similar.
 
Since my post about the Pulsar last night I have probably spent 5 hours wasting time both at home and work browsing watches. I have given up on spending $80 on an old watch and am now back to where I started before I got the Seiko and keep looking a Casios. Yes Scotch I know they are a calculator company and all that but I still think some of their watches are cool. Their Protrek line is nice but too expensive. They also have sweet solar powered watches that I like but they are also a bit pricey. So then I started looking for sub-$100 and there are a bunch of nice ones. This one is only $38 and I really like it:

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For that price I think I may need to get it. It's $27 cheaper on Amazon than on the Casio website and $2 or $3 cheaper than at both Walmart and Target. I think it's neat how it's a smart watch w/o actually being a smart watch. It has a compass, thermometer, multiple alarms, stopwatch and world time.

I get a kick out of my Seiko because it has absolutely zero electronics and I think I'd get a kick out of this one having so many functions and yet still not really being a smart watch. Plus the Seiko is relatively small and this thing is a beast. Makes for good variety.
 
Ok, I bought it. I had some money in my Amazon balance and my twisted logic views that as free money so it wound up only costing $27, tax included. Most of the reviews were positive but of course I focus on the negative ones. When it gets here I'll see if I agree with any of the bad reviews, if so I'll just return it but I'm going into it wanting to love this thing so it will have to have some serious flaws for me to send it back.
 
JHDK said:
Since my post about the Pulsar last night I have probably spent 5 hours wasting time both at home and work browsing watches. I have given up on spending $80 on an old watch and am now back to where I started before I got the Seiko and keep looking a Casios. Yes Scotch I know they are a calculator company and all that but I still think some of their watches are cool. Their Protrek line is nice but too expensive. They also have sweet solar powered watches that I like but they are also a bit pricey. So then I started looking for sub-$100 and there are a bunch of nice ones. This one is only $38 and I really like it:

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For that price I think I may need to get it. It's $27 cheaper on Amazon than on the Casio website and $2 or $3 cheaper than at both Walmart and Target. I think it's neat how it's a smart watch w/o actually being a smart watch. It has a compass, thermometer, multiple alarms, stopwatch and world time.

I get a kick out of my Seiko because it has absolutely zero electronics and I think I'd get a kick out of this one having so many functions and yet still not really being a smart watch. Plus the Seiko is relatively small and this thing is a beast. Makes for good variety.
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Casio is actually well respected in that market, looks cool and manly. They also make the Edifice line which sponsors the Red Bull F1 team. Enjoy it.
 
Of course now that I bought one I'm looking at all the fancier ones to torture myself and see what features I'm missing. There are plenty in the $40-$120 range but of those, even though mine is the cheapest, I like it best. However, if we move into the $150+ range then we find some winners like this one:

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If budget was no issue that would be the one I'd get. I can use insane logic to rationalize just about anything, but even I can't rationalize spending nearly $200 on a second watch when I just got one 2 months ago and I'm convinced I'm going to lose my job in the next few weeks or months.

It is a sexy beast though.
 
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In the mid 1970s I bought a $10 Texas Instrument LED watch. It looked like one of these, not sure which:

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Before those, all of the digital watches I'd seen costs hundreds of dollars. Suddenly they were cheaper than analog watches. LEDs were still an amazing new technology back then.
 
JHDK said:
Of course now that I bought one I'm looking at all the fancier ones to torture myself and see what features I'm missing. There are plenty in the $40-$120 range but of those, even though mine is the cheapest, I like it best. However, if we move into the $150+ range then we find some winners like this one:

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If budget was no issue that would be the one I'd get. I can use insane logic to rationalize just about anything, but even I can't rationalize spending nearly $200 on a second watch when I just got one 2 months ago and I'm convinced I'm going to lose my job in the next few weeks or months.

It is a sexy beast though.
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Ha! That's the sickness of the watch enthusiast. I've adopted the AA's "One Day at a Time" motto, to keep myself from making an impulsive purchase. Now that I have the house expenses, I'm not tempted as much, but used to look at Breitling, Omega, Panerai, and others (like a different Tag Heuer than what I have), which are all thousands of dollars.

Actually, my original obsession with watches began with the Porsche Design anodized chrono, made by Orfina, that appeared in every car magazine in the 70s.
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At times, I considered selling all my other watches, and just getting one of these (about $3k on eBay). But I didn't.
 
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