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I got one of these guys watches, it has an RFID chip but I can’t think of anything to do with it. It looks really cool though. The light is nice too since its bright enough to use as a flashlight when its dark enough.
Can the ROM be read and flashed back on Casio watches? I once bought a solar G-shock but the watch UI is horrible: it does not display the battery charge anywhere on the watch. Instead, it wants you to install a Casio app that connects to the watch via BT. However, even the app doesn't show the battery charge with more than a few scrambled pixels in a small icon. So, useless. I still don't know how much battery I had…
I doubt that they use any kind of reprogrammable memory, but you can swap out the entire board like I did: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto
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…
I recently got a $20 Casio watch as well. Unlike the Garmin watches, I never have to charge it. It tells time and that's it. I never noticed how often I checked my phone just to check the time until I got this watch. I love it.
So I've been thinking about buying a watch for a couple years now. I finally did it last Saturday. Coincidentally, a Casio, and thanks to this thread I'm even more excited for it than before :) It hasn't been shipped out yet.
Shocked someone has not posted the article about why its so popular among al-Qaida. Always a fun read. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkebp8/casio-f91w-watch-terr...
> United States Intelligence quickly noticed the prevalence of F-91Ws on the wrists of Islamist fighters. Secret files about the Guantanamo military detention camp published by Wikileaks say Pakistani authorities discovered some 600 to 700 Casios in two workshops in Karachi, and that simply owning one could warrant an interrogation. One prisoner’s evaluation sheet confirms “about a third of inmates at JTF-GTMO [the unit in charge of Guantanamo] who were captured wearing one of these watches had a known correlation with explosives”.
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I did the opposite. Wore a Seiko 5 for a while until I got tired of not trusting it, then switched to an F91w. The Seiko is very good for an affordable automatic, but it’s hard to beat a quartz for “it just works”.
It sounds like yours needed regulation. Properly regulated you can trust them just fine.
I've been wearing a Casio F-91W for a number of years now and it really is a joy. It's always there, and it always works. I've gone down the rabbit hole with expensive time pieces but they become a burden / obligation rather than a tool - especially as the prices of certain pieces in the secondary market have gone so high - so over time I've reverted back to much cheaper watches and find myself getting more joy out o…
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.
It's not that unusual to see people out with a watch on one wrist and a fitness device on the other wrist.
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I got a couple of casio watches from Amazon years back. Then I brought one in a physical watch store and realized that all the watches purchased through Amazon were fakes. Especially the strap is so much better on the real thing.
I wouldn't have been surprised to find out my F-91W was counterfeit! But I just went and watched a "30 ways to tell if your Casio watch is fake" video on YouTube and it looks like my watch is legitimate. I probably wasn't careful enough with the strap, it just disintegrated at one of the connections to the face.
That's a very common problem on the inexpensive Casios. When it happened to my watch I found that new watch cost less than a new strap.
Hmm, a MicroSD card is handy, but how about a MicroSD card to USB reader in the watch strap ?
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Timex and Armitron are the two others that come to mind.
Also Braun. Beautiful but pricey. https://braun-clocks.com/collections/digital-watches
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0278/8851/7235/collections...
