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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Timex DataLink Indiglo

[From A Far Away Land]

You don't get geekier than a watch with a PDA built into it, with little games. Hook a USB cable to it, or get an older model that works with a CRT monitor by flashing barcodes at a little eye sensor to transfer phone numbers and important lists and birthdays. I've had my original series Datalink watch since 1997, and it's only on its second battery, and I use the alarm every morning.

Nothing beats...

[parasonic]

...the 70's wristwatch. I had a really hard time finding one, but the one that I bought has the following:

• Red LED's

• Displays 24-hour time

• Does seconds if you hold down the illuminate button for greater than one second

• Was made in Soviet Russia

Yes, in Soviet Russia--by a company named Elektronika (the bezel is in Cyrillic)--where time kills you. And it keeps very good time.

Don't need to be new

[clockmaker]

I don't think that watches have to be new and digital to be geeky. Consider the Repeater Pocketwatch (Warning: pdf file), for example. The one described there is a 1920 Quarter repeater, but minute repeaters also exist. These watches chime the time when you press a button. Extremely fascinating and complex.

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[CRCulver]

I disagree. I think that best thing would be a watch that has all kinds of wizbang Linux features and yet manages to communicate everything in an analog display. Not all of us have jobs or social events that allow us to wear digital watches.

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[Jamu]

My ideal watch would just have an analog display showing the time. It would be powered by sunlight or some other green, non-interactive source. Its time would be set automatically, including the determination of which timezone it's in. It would have no buttons. The display would be black on white even in the dark.

Fossil - PDA watch

[ratatask]

He forgot This.
Slick. I want one.

Fancy smancy

[tuanjim_2001]

I just received a nice watch from ebay. A 24 hour analog self winding wrist watch. Very nice and with it being self winding I don't have to worry about batteries dying. http://cgi.ebay.com/RUSSIA-RUSSIAN-DOLPHIN-MENS-24 -HOUR-AUTOMATIC-WATCH_W0QQitemZ8911192154QQcategor yZ31387QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem for those who care.

And no I'm not this coachgifts cat, it's just the only 24 hour analog self winding watch that's less than like $1500 that I could find period.

What utter crap

[rho]

All of the watches are junk. Some are simply expensive junk. Of what use is a USB storage watch that requires a cable in order to connect to the computer?

While I'm at it, "geek chic" is officially annoying. "Ooh, look at the 'geek cred' I get from wearing a vacuum tube watch! What? What time is it? Well, it'll take a couple of seconds for the tube to heat up, but then I can tell you the time!" What utter shit.

Here's a "geek watch"--it tells time, digitally; stopwatch; alarm; can communicate with your desktop over Bluetooth; has some kind of storage, also accessible via Bluetooth or via a standard USB connector; will sync alarms with iCal/schedule/PDA; can perhaps play a simple game such as Breakout or Othello. Extra-extra features: compass; altimeter; barometer. All of these in a watch would be huge, so select and choose a few. But don't give me some crap watch where it's arduous to tell what fucking time it is. How completely useless.

IMO, a "real geek" will have either a $5 digital watch (that keeps perfect time, and may even have a stopwatch and alarm), or a calculator/databank watch (so they can do bigger math than they can do in their head).