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I'll always love my F91W for being able to tell me the time, date of the month, and day in wording, all on my wrist, for $14,00, at a 7 year battery life
by glouwbug 3y ago
I'll always love my F91W for being able to tell me the time, date of the month, and day in wording, all on my wrist, for $14,00, at a 7 year battery life
- ghaff 3y agoI have an Apple Watch Ultra which is nice. (The added battery life vs. the standard model makes a big difference.) But it's mostly for hiking. Day-to-day I just wear my $30 Timex a lot of the time.
- Zanovis 3y agoF91w is the best value watch on the market.
- wkat4242 3y agoI prefer the F-105W. It's almost the same but it replaces the mediocre led backlight with a beautiful EL backlight. Fixes the only drawback of the 91 and hardly costs any extra.
- slicktux 3y agoI had to stop wearing mine because what went from a making fun of my antiquated watch turned into I’m a terrorist… All because of this Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W Scroll down to usage
- orhmeh09 3y agoWho's telling you that? Although I know of this story, I've been wearing one all this time, save for a few years of folly with an Apple Watch 4. In fact, I just picked up a new one two days ago since I left my old one in another country. No police has ever given me trouble (e: am from Middle Eastern country and have had more LE interactions at the airport than most people) I love not having to charge it and not having to worry about bumping it into anything. (My new watch is a slightly updated model - W-217H-9AVCF, which is a little bigger and has a brighter, more even light in amber) PS: Nobody's going to think you're a terrorist if you drive a Toyota, either.
- slicktux 3y agoIt started out with “your watch is so old it probably had a Wikipedia page” and the person jokingly looked it up scrolled down and it was an “oh shit” reaction… I love the watch and I still have it..
- astrange 3y ago> PS: Nobody's going to think you're a terrorist if you drive a Toyota, either. What if you're driving a Hilux technical?
- orhmeh09 3y agoMight raise some eyebrows in the US tbh, as they don't sell it there!
- somat 3y agoIs there a difference between the hilux and tacoma? All I know is that the tacoma is built(assembled?) in the US. however I always assumed they more or less the same design.
- astrange 3y agoThey're pretty different designs mainly because of different regulations, but have the same purpose. Old Hiluxes are famously near-indestructible; Top Gear once drove one into the ocean and it still started. …btw, "technical" means it has a machine gun mounted in the back.
- jansan 3y agoCasio also has the best bang for the buck when it comes to classic dial watches. The LCW-M100TSE-1AER features a titanium wristband and casing, sapphire glass, tough solar and wave ceptor (and a shitty light). It costs about 250€ and should do its job for a few decades. Unfortunately Casios comparable digital display watch, the MRG-B5000D-1DR, costs about ten times as much.
- TeaBrain 3y agoLCWs really are fantastic watches at a bargain. If I ever had to replace my current watch, I would likely get another LCW. I've worn mine constantly for around 3.5 years and it has always kept accurate time without having to adjust. It is also impressively durable and has always kept itself charged.
- quechimba 3y agoThey're great. I've had several. Doesn't hurt so much if I accidentally forget it somewhere :)
- fqyzj 3y ago>I'll always love my F91W for being able to tell me the time But can it? I had one and it drifted like 20 seconds a month.
- lallysingh 3y agoThat's actually a normal amount for any watch. A well-maintained Rolex is +- 5 seconds a day. AFAIK, only the 'atomic' watches or ones sync'd against your cellphone do better. Also, 20 seconds means <2 min drift between the adjustments you make for daylight savings time.
- fqyzj 3y agoA Rolex is a mechanical watch, which is an inferior technology. I expect better from a quartz watch.
- CydeWeys 3y agoThe F91W is like $20 though. You're expecting too much from something so cheap. If you pay a bit more than that you'll get a better product. The profit margins on a $20 watch are too low to individually calibrate the rate accuracy of each one, which is the bare minimum that you need to compensate for the manufacturing differences on each individual quartz crystal. And then for accuracy beyond that you would need thermo-compensated quartz, though you only see that on models costing in the 4 figures so if you only care about price performance, you'd sooner get a radio/GPS-controlled model.
- LeoPanthera 3y ago20 seconds a month is about normal for a quartz watch. Quartz is (generally) accurate to about 0.5 seconds a day. (It varies, mostly by temperature.) Compare to a good quality mechanical watch, which is accurate to about 3-5 seconds a day. Cheaper mechanical watches, considerably less. Casio "wave ceptor" watches receive the time signal every night, and so don't drift. Some other more expensive watches sync with the GPS signal, or with bluetooth to your phone. If you demand accuracy without a regular sync, so called "high accuracy quartz" watches do exist, which can be accurate to about 15-30 seconds per year. The Bulova "Precisionist" line of watches are good examples of these.