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Back in year 2000 or Y2K, as it was popular to say that time, sun was brighter grass was greener and yes you guessed it… Matrix got Neo. We learned about Y2K bug which never came. .com bubble and many other fun things. Timex did not got it groove back and among other things was experimenting with form and movements. One of these trials I proudly wear on my wrist. In a way it very special watch. I don’t know exact model but as it goes with Timex, model number often lost with the sticker on the back of the watch. So it round, it titanium grey, it quartz 12hr chronograph, it 50m wr, it based on Miyota movement. Movement is uncomplicated with date, 12 hr chronograph measuring up to seconds with help of usual two buttons. Nothing special yet light and accurate movement. You can see esthetics of the watch on the photos. Watch is round with a lot of circles going on. These alien folks marking fields in rural countryside could have this Timex on the wrist with professional pride. Hour...

There is A before B. Before Quartz watches were electric watches. For a brief period of time electric watches were cutting edge and than Seiko made it first true quartz watch. I going to describe Timex Q and what made it interesting addition to my collection as one letter which came before. I am a devoted supporter of quartz watch as a first choice when it come to simple question what to get. Quartz is reliable, stylish and worry free always on time. Also, it affordable unless you talking about some grand Swiss brands. Nature of this reliability grows out of simplicity of quartz moment. It can be 1 second a year with half moving parts of a mechanical watch. Resurgence of Swiss watchmaking owns to this simplicity and disposability embedded into cool, funky or stylish design. Swatch made it cheaper and simpler than it was before, yet you got reliable and accurate enough watch with convenience of no winding your watch each day. It is brilliant! Self winding mechanical watc...