Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by lowry » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 12:37 PM UTC

Chronos from TI is a great hackable watch cf. http://www.ti.com/tool/EZ430-CHRONOS

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by mxuribe » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 12:38 PM UTC

joekinley wrote: post #15

Currently on IndieGoGo which I am totally rooting for: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/watchx-wearable-developme...

Wow, that's cool! Though I second the request on some sort of protective case or something.

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by mehs » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 12:50 PM UTC

Doesn't have your requirements but cool as hell Urwerk UR-202 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5MExuc0hxg

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by Spearchucker » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 12:52 PM UTC

Nixon Dictator - https://www.stuff.tv/nixon/dictator/review

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 12:57 PM UTC

danieltillett wrote: post #17

dagw wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or, if you have happen to have infinite money lying around, a Hublot MP-07 :)

Well I am a few zeros short of infinite, but my hamilton does come with a 120 day power reserve :)

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Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by mcjiggerlog » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 1:05 PM UTC

workmandan wrote: post #10

An old school Casio is a great choice. I've had a F91W for ages and the battery last years. Cheap too. https://www.amazon.com/Casio-F91W-1-Classic-Resin-Digital/dp... It has an hourly beep and an alarm but no reminders.

What I'm really waiting for is the F91W of smartwatches. I want subtle smart integrations like sleep tracking, heartrate monitoring etc but with a simple, always on screen and hardware buttons.

The Pebble watches were getting close but they were still way too big for my taste, and still too expensive.

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by neillyons » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 1:15 PM UTC

I have the Casio B640. Has a countdown timer and the current time is shown in the top right when in the other modes.

https://www.casio.com/products/watches/classic/b640wb-1bvt

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by rkowalick » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 1:43 PM UTC

homero wrote: post #5

begemotz wrote: post #3

Casio still makes many versions of the databank watch and, imo, you cant get geekier than that. https://www.casio.com/products/watches/databank

As a kid I cried for years and finally got this https://www.casio.com/products/watches/databank/cmd30b-1t

I totally used that watch to shut off random TVs in public places! nostalgia

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by qiv » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 2:35 PM UTC

I have a Junghans solar powered radio controlled watch. Plainly black, but it's made from space shuttle grade ceramics and it's only nerdy once you talk about it ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What are some geeky wrist watches?

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Post by j45 » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 2:45 PM UTC

The casio database is probably what you're looking for. They had a few different models but most deleted your list above. Luckily Casio still makes them, should be easy to find on eBay.