On Saturday I was supposed to shop for shirts. However, in the earlier part of the day, I went out with my Dennis to check out the watch shops. And by the end of the day, I bought no shirts but Seiko SBFG001.
Seiko SBFG001 has the 80s retro look (which captured my heart) but has the features of present day i.e. world time and radio signal atomic time synchronization. This is indeed what I have been waiting for. I am almost pulled the trigger on Casio GW-S5600-1JF.
It wears comfortably but this photo gave the impression that it is almost as big as my hand. Believe me it is not. I trust it is the lightning effect and not my photography skill that caused this
For those who are familiar with digital watches will almost instantly know what this watch is capable of by reading the specs.
- Automatic or on demand radio controlled atomic clock sync (Japan, USA, UK, Germany) 5 bands. Automatic radio reception status if watch is automatically sync with the towers at 2:00am or 3:00am if 2:00am fails and finally stops at 4:00am. ** This is not tested as there is no radio controlled atomic clock sync within this region **
- Solar charging system (3 month power reserve and 11 months in extended Sleep power reserve mode)
- Built in backlight (EL:Electroluminescent Light)
- Hardlex mineral crystal
- Pseudo solid stainless steel bracelet. From my observation, the metal pieces are bended and glued to make each link looks solid. There is a tell tale line on the side of each link.
- Charge level indicator with charge warning
- Count down timer (9 hours 59 mins maximum)
- Chronograph 1/100 sec increments (10 hours)
- Dual time display. Switching between local time and home time is simple
- World time for 32 cities around the world
- Automatic adjustment for DST time
- Perpetual calendar
- Alarm (up to 3 alarms can be set) 24 hour based. No chime and snooze. The alarm will last for 10s.
The pushers are fantastic. The pushers went in firmly and effortless and that gave you an affirmative feedback. I can’t find this feeling with the Casio watches. Pressing the Casio buttons was like pressing a stuck button.
Also, the bracelet is not made of solid links. Each link is folded and "glued" to make it looks like solid link. If you examine carefully, u can see a line on the side of the link.