Best travel wrist watch
Mar 23, 2010, 11:51 am
#16
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Reston, Virginia, USA
Posts: 653
Casio Wave Ceptor
I can read it without my bifocals, and waterproof too. Even salt water.
A limitation of atomic watches is when you're in a marginal reception area it will reset to a random time every midnight (Cozumen Mexico.) If you are entirely out of range it stays put (Truk Lagoon.)
It's cheap, and has a metal band. (The band was difficult to adjust to my wrist, but that done, it is fine.) The plastic bezel scratches and crazes easily. A few seconds on a polishing wheel with a whiff of jewlers rouge polishes scratches right out.
A limitation of atomic watches is when you're in a marginal reception area it will reset to a random time every midnight (Cozumen Mexico.) If you are entirely out of range it stays put (Truk Lagoon.)
It's cheap, and has a metal band. (The band was difficult to adjust to my wrist, but that done, it is fine.) The plastic bezel scratches and crazes easily. A few seconds on a polishing wheel with a whiff of jewlers rouge polishes scratches right out.
Mar 24, 2010, 8:41 am
#18
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I just assumed that when the signal is weak, the watch maintains internal control of the time based on the signal last received (like a mobile phone). It appears I am wrong.
Mar 24, 2010, 10:26 pm
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Is there a good digital atomic watch that will last longer without frequent battery change-particularly for multiple time zones? I have vision problem and large digital watches with light make it easy.
The ones that I have looked at have cheap plastic bands that get cut or broken with frequent use.
The ones that I have looked at have cheap plastic bands that get cut or broken with frequent use.