Zenith Men's 96.0529.4035/51.M Defy Xtreme Tourbillon Titanium Chronograph Watch

Saturday, September 17, 2011 by ls

The Zenith Men's Defy Xtreme Tourbillon Titanium Chronograph Watch or


Z.M.D.X.T.B.T.C.M. as I like to call it, is by far the most awesome watch. Chuck Norris riding into the Super Bowl on the back of Godzilla and round house kicking the crowd is no where near as awesome as this priceless poon magnet. When I was just moments from sending my $100k to some needy neo-hippie help group, I stumbled onto this gem. It was like the heavens opened and Jesus himself appeared with this same watch on. I mean how can you not follow Jesus when he's rocking a watch of this caliber. So I asked "What would Jesus do?" Jesus pimp smacked me and said "Forget those hippies, buy the watch!" I was like "HECK YEAH." I busted out my Discover card and bought this rocking piece of art. I mean its art but its also practical too. Like when I take my summer trips to the Marianas Trench, I have no more worries that I am going to miss Tea Time back on the yacht, because water ruined my watch again. It can withstand the immense pressures of the deep due to the wicked awesome titanium. Deep seas, cant beat this. Bullets cant beat this. Heck, I can deflect cruise missiles and the apocalypse. With a watch like this you don't need to tell time, you tell people what time it is.

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Citizen Men's BL5250-02L Eco-Drive Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Watch

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Product Features
Ecologically friendly, light powered Eco-Drive Caliber E812 Japanese-quartz movement; charges in natural sunlight or indoor light
Max power reserve: 120 - 270 days with Power Save; low charge warning: 5 days; charge time from stop state to max charge: Incandescent Light - 43 hrs, Outdoors, Cloudy (10,000 Lux) - 12 hrs, Outdoors, Sunny (100,000 Lux) - 4 hrs
Leather strap; perpetual calendar Privacy Information
Chronograph functions with alarm, 24-hour, and 1/20th second sub dials; unidirectional rotating bezel; alarm and date functions; tachymeter inner chapter ring
Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)
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Seiko Men's SNK807K2 Automatic Blue Dial Blue Cloth Weave Strap Watch

Saturday, September 10, 2011 by ls

I am still in the process of reviewing this product. Here's what I have so far:Seiko Men's SNK807K2 Automatic Blue Dial Blue Cloth Weave Strap Watch

Xbar 107 seconds/week (runs fast) (7 min./month compared to 2-4 sec./month quart watch)
St DEV 27 sec.
N = 7
95% CI 2.447 using Student's t
m+ = 136 seconds/week
m- = 78 seconds/week



Summary:

Good points:
* Beautiful with dark blue face, white symbols, functional medium blue nylon band;
* Easy to read, even in the dark;
* Easy to use with uncomplicated settings similar to other watches;
* Compact design;
* Measurement consistency is excellent compared to quartz mechanism.

Bad points:
* Difficult to set time (see instruction below);
* Gains 10 seconds a day (consistency); and
* Does not have a manual wind stem.

Discussion
This watch looks great. Unlike other self-winding or kinetic watches, this one is compact. In the best tradition of Japanese product development they thought hard on how this watch should function and say about the wearer. The hands are easy to reading, even for those of use with failing eyesight. The second sweep hand has a read tip allowing easy setting of the time.

Unlike some Japanese product, they provided a short, simple instruction on winding the watch. Here, I am comparing them to Citizen's ecco-drive watch, which I also own. Just gently work your arm back and forth for three minutes and the self-wind watch will charge; or, you could wear it for a day.

Okay, now for the negatives. First, this is not your quartz watch. The original self-winding mechanism was invented, according to Wikipedia, by a Swiss watchmaker in 1770. Since then it has gone through several improvements but is not as accurate as the quartz mechanism popularized starting in the 1970's. Sieko warns that this watch could be off by as much as 10 seconds a day. One days use indicates that my watch runs about 10 seconds fast.

The great watchmaker Harrison, who invented the first chronometer accurate enough to track longitude, said that consistency is more important than accuracy. (A poor copy of one of Harrison's chronometers was carried by Captain Cook on his circumnavigation of the globe. He had nothing but good things to say about it.) I have another self-winding watch, an Armitron, which runs consistently 15 seconds fast on days that I wear it.

From my measurements of quartz watches, their accuracy, while dazzling when compared to old hand-wound watches, are less accurate than my old German pendulum clock. So I am told, the longer the arm, the more stable the swing and the more accurate the timepiece. I compare everything to atomic time. And, because the quartz mechanism is battery-driven, it seems to suffer from inconsistency. I carefully measured my collection of six quartz watches over a 2 year period. While the battery was new, the error was consistent. As the battery burned out, the error became difficult to predict. Sometimes a positive error (adding time) would become a negative error (losing time) as the battery died. This dying period was also hard to predict.

The accuracy of the quartz mechanism is not as good as my pendulum clock. They all lost or gained approximately 2-3 seconds, on average, per month.

Based on a week of measurements with the Armitron, I would say that it is shockingly inaccurate but consistently so. Assuming that the Sieko error continues to be consistently 10 seconds fast this will mean that I will have to reset it every week. This is a small price to pay for an otherwise beautifully crafted and honestly-priced handiwork.

Setting time
The date and day are fairly easy. I suggest turning the watch arms until the click past a day so you won't be twelve hours off.

Setting the time is another matter. What works best is to set the hour and minute hands, then gently hold the second hand. It should pulse a little as it tries to force itself forward. Once the seconds are accurate, release and the second hand should be accurate. It takes a little practice at first and don't set the time until you pump the watch 3 minutes to charge the spring.




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Seiko 5 Men's SNK793 Automatic Stainless Steel Blue Dial Watch

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Seiko 5 Men's SNK793 Automatic Stainless Steel Blue Dial Watch Seiko 5 Men's SNK793 Automatic Stainless Steel Blue Dial WatchSeiko 5 Men's SNK793 Automatic Stainless Steel Blue Dial WatchSeiko 5 Men's SNK793 Automatic Stainless Steel Blue Dial Watch. The Seiko 5 Men's Automatic Stainless Steel Blue Dial Watch is a stylish timepiece with the convenience of automatic movement. Featuring a bold, blue dial with silver-tone hands and indexes accented with luminous fill, this modern timepiece also offers a day and date display at three o'clock



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Seiko Men's SKA347 Kinetic Silver-Tone Watch

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Seiko Men's SKA347 Kinetic Silver-Tone Watch
It was at the 1986 Basel Fair that SEIKO unveiled its first Kinetic prototype. Introduced under the trial name of 'AGM', it was the first watch in the world to convert kinetic movement into electrical energy. It was the first step in a development that, 20 years later, has made Kinetic synonymous with environmental friendliness, high performance and long-lasting convenience to a generation of users worldwide. From the launch in 1988 of the first commercially available watch (then under the new name AGS) until today, over eight million Kinetic watches have been sold (as of 2007).

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Seiko Men's SNDC47 Stainless Steel Chronograph Black Dial Watch

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Buy Now
The Seiko SNDC47 is a very nice/sporty watch that is also classy. All the functions work as described and I really enjoy wearing the watch. The only problem with the watch is that it can be difficult to read in low light settings. The silver hour/minute hands
The Seiko Men's Stainless Steel Chronograph Black Dial Watch has a bold black face that really stands out against its stainless steel body. It begins by offering a stainless steel case and bracelet. The black dial includes a date window and chronograph movement. This handsome watch also features a scratch-resistant hardlex crystal, a precise quartz movement, and a water resistance level of up to 100 meters (330 feet). This watch screams masculinity and functionality, so be sure to pick up yours today.
Product Description
Stainless Steel Case Stainless Steel Bracelet Caliber: 7T92 Quartz Movement Chronograph 3 Subdials Black Dial Date Display at 3 o'clock position Tachymeter Hardlex Crystal Fixed Bezel 100M Water Resistant Approx. Case Diameter: 45mm (including crown) Approx. Case Diameter: 42mm (excluding crown)
Product Details
Item Weight: 10.6 ounces
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
ASIN: B004U4XV9E
Item model number: SNDC47
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,389 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

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Review SEIKO

Thursday, September 1, 2011 by ls

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