Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded

NNUfergs writes "Sure, my smartphone can deliver just about any piece of information I could want in under 30 seconds, but I miss being able to just look at my wrist to get the time, date etc. I've been shopping around for a while and haven't come across anything particularly inspiring. There are loads of various features that have been incorporated into watches, but you usually only see a small, specialized set in a given watch. Budget is always a concern, but I am willing to invest in a quality time piece. In short, I'm not looking for a piece of jewelry; I'm looking for a gadget to wear on my wrist. Are there any neat, fun or just plain cool watches out there for techies? What do you have?"

Comments

Watches are for wage slaves

[Coward Anonymous]

True men of leisure don't require watches as they have all the time in the world.

Re:Watches are for wage slaves

[artor3]

Quite right. Instead, they buy fifty thousand dollar Rolex Yachtmaster platinum cosmographs so that they can track the phase of the moon while complaining about having to pay taxes.

The only real atomic watch

[rrohbeck]

http://leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/

That said, I bought a new watch recently. I had four criteria:
- Maintenance free - electronic but no need for battery replacement (mechanical watches need an oil change every few years)
- Radio controlled, receiving all three standards (OK that kind of includes the one above)
- Titanium case
- at least moderately waterproof.
That whittled it down to a manageable set and when I saw a Citizen Nighthawk on sale I hit it.

Re:Sony SmartWatch

[EdIII]

Sony Smartwatch?

Yeah... but unlike so many other advertisements every one of your dollars that goes to Sony really does support terrorism :)

Re:Douglas Adams Edition Pulsar

[necro81]

per Douglas Adams:

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Re:Watches are not about telling time

[LanMan04]

Do you really think anyone spends 100K on a Breguet because it tells accurate time?

No, they spend $100K on it because they're a pretentious douchebag with more money than sense/penis size.