It's not temperature compensated. If you leave it lying on a desk at room temperature yes. Wear it outside in all weather it'll be pretty inaccurate.
I prefer the F-105W myself. It's basically the same watch but with a great blue EL backlight.
I had a Pebble and then an Apple Watch. I came to the conclusion I prefer my watches to be tools and not devices. Watches that are tools are cool. Aviation watches, dive watches, etc etc. So much cooler than a smartwatch.
I love my W-800H though. Still has a 10 year battery, nearly as compact size, and similar aesthetics.
I’ve gone through a couple over the years (the biggest flaw is the band), but my current one is incredibly accurate. Using a high speed camera, I measured 1.43 seconds loss over 6 months. Pretty sure I won the Quartz lottery since that’s much more accurate than spec, but either way I’m happy.
I went from f91w to the illuminator and it’s much nicer for the backlight
Or maybe because it is (and it's clones) are available everywhere for $1?
I know its a cheap watch but would it be that hard to have a settings for it? I hear people tuned antique pendulum clocks to seconds per year. I suppose it helps that they are inaccurate enough to have tuning?
I don't really mind a lot because I will just adjust it once in a while. But I wouldn't claim it to be an accurate movement.
I found more and more that the features I use on a watch (current time, 3 min timer for tea, 25 min pomodoro timer, wake up alarm) are basically universally covered by every digital watch ever manufactured, and are normally MUCH easier to access on those watches than an Apple Watch, and I assume most smart watches.
The health tracking is the only compelling feature I make use of on an Apple Watch IMO, otherwise it annoyingly fiddly to the point where I just use my phone.
You should try placing them as widgets on a compatible watch face, or set them be sticky in your recents app's list, if you haven't already.
i want a faceless waves hands bracelet something on my wrist that will track all of my health & bio stats and sends it to/syncs it with my phone.
Perhaps a way to DIY this? I wonder how to get motors that small…
But I find genuine utility in having a smartphone and smartwatch. I have a relatively expensive mechanical watch but it rarely sees use other than date nights. The time is usually off, and I don’t care because that’s not the point. I don’t use it to keep time - that’s what my iPhone is for. Instead, the watch is purely jewlery, no different from my wife’s bracelet.
On the other hand my Apple Watch stays on my wrist almost perpetually.
I too hear about watches like the F91 or various g-shocks and get tempted to pick one up out of curiosity. But I know it’s going to be even less useful to me than my expensive automatic watch since it can’t even function as jewelry.
I wear a $15 Casio - so why am I reviewing smartwatches?
I'm guessing that the only reason he wore it to be able to write this article with this headline.
