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Top 10 Geek Watches

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the complete-with-lasers dept.

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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  1. Timex DataLink Indiglo by From+A+Far+Away+Land · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Lies by dcapel · · Score: 3, Funny

    I refuse to believe the top watch for geeks has come until it sshes into a linux box which then uses ntp to get the time from the atomic clock, and then sends it back. The time would of course be displayed in binary : octal : hex, for hour, minutes, and seconds, respectively.

    And, of course, it runs Linux.

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    1. Re:Lies by CRCulver · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

    2. Re:Lies by Jamu · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

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    3. Re:Lies by KozmoStevnNaut · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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

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  3. Non-coral cache by afaik_ianal · · Score: 3, Informative

    And for those of us who can't access Coral (because of work restrictions), the story is also available here.

  4. Nothing beats... by parasonic · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...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.
  5. Don't need to be new by clockmaker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  6. wrist watches? by zephc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who has time to look at their wrist, what with moving your face away from the monitor. This is what 'date' and 'cal' are for, or xclock, if you go for that kind of excess.

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  7. Fossil - PDA watch by ratatask · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He forgot This.
    Slick. I want one.

  8. Atomic's more than enough by martinultima · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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