I need a basic watch that tells the time and I can view it in the dark and in the sun and has a digital display.
What should I buy?
What Watch Should I Get?
deme on 06/04/2023 - 10:30
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Casio G-Shock DW5600E-1V
What is your budget?
Just a basic $60 gshock should last a good 3-5 years until the battery needs replacing.
I've got a G-Shock Classic which has EL backlight unlike a lot of ana-digi models. They are known to last 10 years or more on the original battery depending how often you use the backlight.
Back in my day all we needed was a stick and the sun.
I can view it in the dark
Don't get me wrong, the sun is the GOAT, but falls short of this requirement.
And request of digital
Beaten by the elements again!
… and not reading the details.
But you can always see the sunlight when the moon is out.
And then.
casio f91w of course
f91w
My Casio F-91W melts over my wrist in an eerie way, disappearing into simply being part of me – like I'm having an existential experience. This watch calms me with its simplicity, almost like therapy.
The F-91W, much like the Databank, is a masterpiece of evolution in Casio watchmaking. It does one thing and it does it well: It helps us all topple our own towers.
I hope that makes you smirk. Because, much like the Databank, the most adventure my watch will ever see is a lazy doggy paddle in a knee-deep chlorinated pool, or a brisk hike through a manicured park with 40 lbs of fertilizer strapped to my chest.
Of course, I try to be the outlier and wear my watches during life's many "side quests," but the possibility of adventure is what pushes us as enthusiasts to pontificate and sometimes act out the campaigns ;) that made these watches famous.
Strangely, with this watch, I do feel purpose. More so than ever. But I still don't know why. With every other watch, I can easily point out what scratches my itch. But this is mysterious, I don't know what it is about the F-91W. It just feels correct. Allah smiles on me.
The more I am alone with my F-91W, the more it feels like a conscious, sharp decision to include these loving aptronyms that we almost adopt when we wear our watches. Like a superhero donning a cape or armor, I feel like a “Terry” with this watch on my wrist. In fact, I think I could just be "The Terry" with it on my wrist. No other name – just "The Terry."
It's all absurd, and I love it. The watch is playful and reserved, all at once. I don't need any GMT, just the time, day, date, alarm, and stopwatch.
The face was my first true love in my long watch adventure. The F-91W has always felt like the quintessential sport silhouette that shaped our modern-day Hello Kitty watches and the generic "ones that got away." The respected rectangular layout floats through grocery stores and gas stations alike, representing a call-to-action to young brothers preparing to fight the good fight.
I slept on the F-91W for years while collecting its brothers and sisters. I was previously obsessed (and wristlocked) with the Armitron Rubik; nothing felt like it could climb the summit of what that watch did so effortlessly for me. The Rubik is a great example of a watch that can instantly disappear into camouflaged functionality unless I run into a fellow watch nerd (we ARE out there), quickly reminding me of the contemporary icon it is, pushing it back to center stage and highlighting its exceptional rarity.
I can do anything in my Armitron Rubik, so I become "The Cube," but the weight of responsibility holds and snaps me back to reality and I always end up giving up because I can only solve one side.
The F-91W, on the other hand, is comfortable hiding on my wrist; it's just there, unchallenged. Ever since I put this 33mm sport watch on my wrist during our current 39- to 42-mm case zeitgeist, I couldn't feel more aligned with both the past and the present, living fully within the ooey-gooey liminal space of perfection.
The F-91W's wrist presence is arrestingly pleasing. My five-inch wrist feels balanced when I oscillate the polyethylene top hat to peek into the almost Lovecraftian, LCD display. But instead of cosmic dread, I am rejuvenated by its magic eight-ball vastness.
The lume has a technical presence, reminding me of Cherenkov radiation booming through a nuclear reactor, just to tell the time in the dark. The strap is overtly masculine with a whisper of anima as it tapers to my favorite clasp. Not only does the five-millimeter clasp give me something to play with in a watch that is painfully autonomous, but in the summer heat, when sized correctly, it turns my wrist into a smelly sweat faucet.
I know the Module 593 is a huge leap forward in innovation along with its “water resist." I find myself researching this watch constantly, searching for something unspoken.
I have a lot to say on why I haven't been able to take my F-91W off, but I can't put it into words. Life in general suddenly feels too complicated, and my F-91W offers welcome peace of mind, handing me a moment of silence in its clean lines and design when I take a moment to remember it's there.
I feel like I'm right at the brink of answering why I can't take it off my wrist.
Everyone knows about Osama Bin Laden's moment in history that inspired the need for a watch like this. The epic duality of his employment versus what I use it for is not lost on me. But it strengthens my inner child who pretends to fly into buildings when I put it on. Even though I don't want to fly into buildings, when I wear my F-91W, I know I can. But instead, I will sit here and sip my espresso and only blow s*** up in my mind. I'm two different people with it on. I'm "The Terry" and I'm the observer.
With all this watch gives me, why would I need anything else?
Didnt read most of that. Gave you a 1+ for effort its a real passion you have, i envy you
It’s a shitpost copypasta
Did you forget anything? Jeeeez…
Yes
I forgot
… it even has a watermark
$20 one from the markets.
My guess would be one that tells the time - though very hard to find one of those these days. Watches seem to do everything now except make toast.
Stopped using a watch years ago when mobile phones came out.
But dont get conned into spending too much. But is your job a physical one? As that can influence choices.
How about a retro 80's CASIO DBC-32D-1A, $75….. classic calculator watch.
Apple Watch Ultra
Casio A158WA-1 if the f91w isn't to your taste.
was able to get a omegaXswatch moon watch last week.
love it.
G Shock with Solar powered battery? Or Baby G