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If you have to have a corporate engineering strategy, drop Agile and Lean and try just letting good people try stuff and see what happens.
Once it's working then figure out how to production use and market it. Not figure out what you think the market needs and then crash develop it.
(I may be over egging my pudding)
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Citizen is another Japanese watchmaker and the eco-drive solar technology has been around for about 30 years. You can get a low-end Citizen Eco-Drive for about $100, sometimes even less on sale. Solar powered, very durable, and they look great. Most are water resistant as well. I've had one model running continuously for 11 years. I love never having to charge it or change the battery.
I can only chime in and support this claim about Citizen. I have had one of their Eco-drive models for about 15 years now and it has had months in drawers or laying on shelves not being used, but it has never stopped working. I am so impressed with that watch!
My personal advice for anyone looking would be the following triumvirate: solar ("eco-drive"), sapphire glass (never mineral glass!), radio controlled. It just works - you don't have to do anything ever again (except maybe if you have a december like me...).
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I buy one every year or so I go to Japan purely on impulse but in reality, there are hardly any occasions for me to use such sandwich products when the decision is between an Apple Watch as the daily driver and a Tag Heuer for a night out.
If you stop thinking about the Apple Watch as a watch and more as a data collection and display device, maybe dual-wristing would be an option? It's not that unusual to see people out with a watch on one wrist and a fitness device on the other wrist.
But then came the Apple Watch, and now I wear that every day. It's a bit more convenient, tracks health data I like and is around 1/10th the price of a nice watch. The latter also means I don't take it off when I go to the playground or jump in the pool. There were some scratches on my previous Apple Watch, but before that really becomes an issue you want to buy a new model anyway for the extra features and better battery life. So in practical use I like it more than a "real" watch.
I got a Casio watch from Amazon about five years ago, there was a deal on and it was about CAD$20. A budgetary driven decision, for sure! But it's been fascinating to see, over the years, how many times I've been approached (in a coffee shop or some other public place) by serious Casio enthusiasts, keen to ask about my watch and to show theirs. There's so many variations, colours, limited-runs editions... I seem to h…
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I can only chime in and support this claim about Citizen. I have had one of their Eco-drive models for about 15 years now and it has had months in drawers or laying on shelves not being used, but it has never stopped working. I am so impressed with that watch!
yes, I love mine too. However, after a very dark december mine stopped (and I was very confused by it ;)). Had to put it on the window sill for a few days for it to work again. My personal advice for anyone looking would be the following triumvirate: solar ("eco-drive"), sapphire glass (never mineral glass!), radio controlled. It just works - you don't have to do anything ever again (except maybe if you have a decemb…
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> I've gone down the rabbit hole with expensive time pieces but they become a burden / obligation rather than a tool If you want something that looks nice and is a Casio, search "casio edifice" on ebay, used, you can find many good watches under $100. randomly chosen example https://www.ebay.com/itm/192205400394?epid=19011028556&hash=...
That's a cool recommendation. Thank you! Like many others on here have noted, there are some really nice Seikos and Casios that look great, keep fantastic time and won't break the bank. I am not a completely reformed addict though in this regard, as I do have a handful of Seikos and Casios, and recently picked up a Serica 4512 as my dressy / special occasions watch. One thing I've realised about this world and "colle…
I cannot even imagine wearing a watch with more than a hundred bucks, because I'm clumsy and will inevitably hit it on some hard surface and scratch it.
I bought F-91W for my SATs in senior year of high school... I've been an acolyte ever since. It's hands-down the most comfortable and versatile watch I've ever worn. My dream is a partnership between Apple and Casio that ads some of the smart watch features & biometric measurements to a classic F-91W design...
I share this dream. light fitness tracking in a forever battery w simple subtle design would win me. Something like the MQ24-7B2 mechanical with similar features would be the bees knees.