Mine is the f-91w with an olive green nylon strap which i’ve been wearing since 2019.
Not the F-91W. Who puts the light and the lap as the same button so checking the timer in the dark also stops it???
Casio CA53W
Can get one for $5 and it is a full calculator.
I was a bit of a holdout for some years, but as they did for what I think is most of society, cell phones pretty much killed watches for me. Carrying a cell phone means that you’ve already got a timepiece in your pocket which you probably already carry everywhere, which automatically syncs time via the cell network (and GPS; I don’t know which actually takes precedence on current phones, actually), handles timezones automatically, handles switching to local time to wherever you are when you move from place to place, handles leap years…it’s tough for a watch to compete with that.
A digital watch has very low power requirements, can run for maybe a couple years off a button cell. That compares pretty favorably to a cell phone. But if you’re willing to deal with charging a cell phone anyway, the timekeeping function is effectively free.
A wristwatch (or, I suppose, smartwatches, if that’s the way you swing) is on one’s wrist, rather than in one’s pocket, so it’s a bit faster to check, and one can do it a bit less unobtrusively. But I just don’t check the time anywhere near enough to warrant that.
And it’s one more thing to deal with, to catch on things, and so forth.
To me, it’s similar to physical books. Yes I could read a book on my phone, and sometimes I do. But there are times and situations where I prefer the original, whether for functionality or just aesthetics.
That one I got back in the 80s as a kid where I could change the channels and turn off TVs everywhere I went. Man that was super fun.
I have a DW5600CU-7 that I wear most of the time. I have others but sadly they’re negative displays which make them a bitch for readability.
Pro-Trek 3500 in titanium. It has multiple sensors, radio-based time correction, a great display, a separate button for the backlight, and solar power. It you want a watch that blends in with the business-ware this is not it, but I like the way it looks.
Ga2100
A black G shock that’s been pretty much bulletproof for 20 years, then a white G shock where the physical hands will not match up with the digital time no matter how many times I reset it.
GW-5610 I bought secondhand for ~$80 and added an aftermarket stainless steel bezel. Uses multiband6 and solar. It’s been a fantastic bulletproof watch for the past ~4 years of near daily wear (I like watches so I wear something else if I’m in a particular mood).
B650W with a negative display
I rock my DBC610 almost daily.
If you want to spiff up your F-91W, get the sensorwatch.net module for it. The trouble I’ve had with those plastic watches though is that the spring pins that hold the strap break loose, and the strap falls off. If that hasn’t happened with yours, you’re doing good.
I like my g shock
