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Citizen GN-09-5 on C240 movement

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Citizen GN-09-5 on C240 movement It will sound repeated, but I find analog digital combo on a watch the best thing to wear. You get it, best of both worlds. Not many of these analog digital combo watches get to be truly quality ones. Citizen C240 dos not look like Breitling, yet has a lot of promise. Lest see it up close and personal and judge pros and cons of this watch. There is family of expensive watches by Swiss brands with a lot in common: back in the time it was cool to be digital yet they had no guts to be one. So internals were outscored to Japanese manufacturers. Citizen was inside ... of … you name it. Later on, cool and proudly Swiss calibers were developed to justify 6000$ asking price. Japanese internal trickled into Casio you can buy at mere 50$ or even 25$. But what you should buy, if you do want them both digital and hands? However, you not really want live with robust manly size which can fit elephant leg elegantly, acrylic crystal and cheap glare of ra...

Timex Q The 70's

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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...