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Seiko Astron Kintaro Hattori Special Limited Edition GPS Watch Hands-On
2013 and 2014 saw the release of additional new Seiko Astron models. The modern Seiko Astron was released in 2012 and debuted by best watches here. The Astron is probably the most full-featured and convenient timepiece that connects to GPS satellites in order to automatically update the time and location (time zone) of the wristwatch. Solar powered and feature rich, it is one of today’s ultimate travel watches. This reference SAST100 version of the Astron is a limited edition piece for 2013, and dedicated to the founder of Seiko watches, Mr. Kintaro Hattori. Some of these design ideas made it to the 2014 Seiko Astron models (debuted here).In the 1960s, Seiko released its first Astron-named watch that was both legendendary and infamous in the watch world. While a few other companies were working on quartz movement technology, the Seiko Astron was the first commercially released quartz watch (something that was wonderful to the industry, though highly disruptive to traditional mech
Ball Engineer II Magneto S Watch Hands-On
Back in May, we brought you word of a new watch from Ball?with a very tricky method of ensuring resistance to magnetism. At the time, we could not bring you any live pictures, as the watch was not quite ready. That’s changed now, so read on for our hands on impressions with?the Ball Engineer II Magneto S.It is unusual for us to start discussing a watch by scrutinizing its case back design, but for now, we absolutely have to. Arguably, the?coolest aspect of the watch is the iris closure on the case back that completes the magnetic shielding for the watch.?Normally, when a watch has shielding built in (rather than relying on components that are inherently non-magnetic, such as silicon), you are greeted with a solid case back-examples being the Rolex Milgauss (hands-on here) or the IWC Ingenieur (hands-on here). That, of course, is not the case here.