I’m not really a watch person, but that one looks totally great!
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If we’re doing watches today, here’s what I’m rocking lately.
I stopped using my Garmin smartwatch because they finally fell into the enshittification trap and recently tried adding AI slop and a subscription scheme into their watch app. That’s a big old nope from me, dawg.
Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s also approachably yet suspiciously cheap. I think I paid $20 for this close to 15 years ago, and Sinobi is apparently still at it making mechanical watches in the $30 range.
This one does two things: Tells you the time, and does so while not needing batteries.
sevon@lemmy.kde.social 1 day ago
All of those seem to be quartz and not mechanical.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just took a look. They do still make quite a few mechanicals but they have indeed shot up in price. $80-90 nowadays, it seems.
My old one is definitely mechanical. I wind it up every morning.
5in1k@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Image I’m rocking a $5 Ali watch with a nice rainbow watch band.
dingus@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Wow I love this!
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nice. It is astounding what you can get for just a couple of bucks, and even more astounding that they genuinely work.
5in1k@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I would have bought something from a real brand but a red watch that matched the band at all was either this or like $10k, no in between it seemed.