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1) Mechanical Watches
2) G-Shocks
If you're putting something other than those on your wrist, that's fine, and you can dork out all you want, but just please don't call it a "watch". The Apple Watch is an insult to every horologist and a disgrace to everyone with an ounce of class. :) Yes I jest, but actually not all that much.
The amounts of spyware in the app store have caused me to massively scale back my use of apps now, so I almost never wear my apple watch anymore.
Wow this makes me want to buy an Apple Watch! In the military knowing first-light and last-light, down to within a few minutes, is essential daily. I have an app on my phone that tells me sunrise and sunset, but as the article describes these aren't the same thing. I also have a very expensive top-of-the-range Garmin watch and even that just tells me the less useful sunrise and sunset, which makes me suspicious it's…
Does anyone know of a website/js remake of this watch face?
A timely read, as I just got a Fitbit Versa as a gift and have been exploring the watch faces. The Fitbit store has tons of them, mostly just crap IMO - the Hallmark card of watch faces as it were, with a lot of variations of "cute kitty background". But there are a few gems, including one I found that's based on a Tokyo Flash design.
There is still no apple watch face that does not display the time. I filed a radar about this when the watch first launched. I don't like being a clock slave, but do rather like the idea of complications to display data and getting notifications on my wrist. The amounts of spyware in the app store have caused me to massively scale back my use of apps now, so I almost never wear my apple watch anymore.
Why not just use it without the third-party apps you're concerned about? It has a ton of functionality out of the box.
Awesome article. Lots of awesome science went into its development.
Yes, learned some brand new things about common events! Very cool, there's something about tech at a convergence of aesthetics, science and history that is really awesome. I did wonder about one bit though, which really was driven home by their speculation about trying to do it mechanically at the end: > "However, as a fan of astronomical complications, I can't help but wonder if this sort of complication couldn't be…
On the other hand, Japanese watchmakers don't seem to be particularly averse to mixing analog with digital, mechanical with electronic. So I wouldn't be surprised if Citizen, for example, came up with a hybrid GPS/mechanical watch that does exactly what the Apple Watch does while the Swiss toil for decades trying to build a purely mechanical version.
There's two kinds of watches: 1) Mechanical Watches 2) G-Shocks If you're putting something other than those on your wrist, that's fine, and you can dork out all you want, but just please don't call it a "watch". The Apple Watch is an insult to every horologist and a disgrace to everyone with an ounce of class. :) Yes I jest, but actually not all that much.
Snobbery is not the best way to get people interested in your hobby. Isn't it great that people are getting excited about watches again? This article is about extending the features of mechanical watches with cool technology, while mechanical watches are not even particular good at telling you what time it is. Mechanical watches are cool, but so is UX innovation in modern watches, as the discussions in this thread demonstrate.
A timely read, as I just got a Fitbit Versa as a gift and have been exploring the watch faces. The Fitbit store has tons of them, mostly just crap IMO - the Hallmark card of watch faces as it were, with a lot of variations of "cute kitty background". But there are a few gems, including one I found that's based on a Tokyo Flash design.
If you like abstract watchfaces for the Versa, you might want to checkout TTMM: https://ttmm.is/