For those interested, it's a Xiaomi Youpin CIGA Automatic.
Researching Xiaomi phones I was blown away by the sheer number of other unrelated products they sell.
Someone at the top has a big push towards diversification.
Innovative Anti-Seismic Mechanical Watch
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#22Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock. AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.
If I were to buy a watch, I'd want a wind-up mechanical watch with an alarm because the purpose of the watch would be backup when for some reason I cannot use my smartphone or my computer for timekeeping. The most likely scenario would be an extended power outage. I could stick the watch in a drawer and completely forget about it for decades, and it would be ready to go to work when needed. Unfortunately, I did not h…
You can pick up a vintage Seiko Bell-Matic for cheap on eBay, and presumably some others. Anything new (like a new JLC Memovox) isn't something people would classify as a "fashion watch" -- they're luxury watches. A fashion watch is something like a Gucci or Daniel Wellington.
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#23Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock. AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.
There was a post on HN a couple years ago that I should probably have dug up instead of vaguely gesturing at, but here we are. Anyway, it described the transition to digital technology as moving towards "magical rocks". They are amazing, perfect, and betray no hint as to their mechanism. They are excellent tools, in many ways better than their predecessors, but they don't tickle the brain the same way as a machine th…
> There are a million other arguments either way, but that's the one that's compelled me the most. And granted, I'm pretty biased, typing this with a mechanical watch on my wrist.
Me too, except the bit about wearing a watch. I haven't worn one since my Seiko 5 died at about the same time that the magical rock telephones took off about 20 years ago.
Thanks for the 'magical rocks' phrase!
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#24Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock. AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.
> Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? Because it's neat. Prices generally are above my "I'd pay that for the neat-factor" level though, so there's an element of your suggestion...
You can get plenty of mechanical watches brand new for less than USD 100. The classic Seiko 5 Automatic is USD 64: https://www.worldofwatches.com/seiko?movement=3563&price=-68.
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#25Why did this website require two entire seconds to load a single picture and a paragraph, even with umatrix enabled?