Top 10 Geek Watches

peanutbutter13 writes "Productdose lists their picks for best geek watches. From the article: "Considering the wealth of geek chic wristwear out there at the moment, we started thinking about the point where nerd-tech meets personal style...and we've compiled a list of our current wristwatch favorites, which we hope will help you channel your inner geek-gent."

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[KozmoStevnNaut]

My guess is that some people simply find analog watches easier to read.

Like yourself, I'm a student, but I like mechanical analog pocket watches for the mechanics and geek value. I recently found a cheap "skeleton" analog pocket watch (it has the entire inner workings exposed so you can look at it and marvel at the tiny springs and gears inside) which is now part of my small collection. Everything about old-style pocket watches fascinate me, the mechanics, the craftsmanship involved in making a precise analog clock movement, the often very finely detailed engravings...

I don't use them on a day to day basis though, my mobile phone is a perfectly adequate keeper of time, although I guess it is kinda pocket watch-ish... Though unfortunately, it's not mechanic :-P

Atomic's more than enough

[martinultima]

Personally I think my favorite watch would have to be just an ordinary Casio atomic watch, one of the ones with analog/digital/stopwatch/whatever. All that other geek stuff might be fun and amusing, but as far as actual function goes, the only thing I need is a device that keeps time, and doesn't need to be set.

(It's also rather nice-looking, despite the fact that I've drowned it once and superglued it twice... my stuff tends to get abused ;-)

My second favorite, for reasons still unknown, is one of those Shark Tale promotional things my friend got from a cereal box. I don't know why, I just like the thing.