…that only weird people like me would find fascinating.

So, if you haven’t been able to tell from previous posts, I have a fascination with watches. I still hold true that my two favorite watches are the Seiko Kinetic watch my wife gave me when we got married (and much to her dismay, wear very infrequently) and my Casio G-Shock Atomic Solar…uh…watch. I’m sure it’s got some more descriptive adjectives in the title, but I think you get the point.

Well, it seems that Casio has developed their “Tough Movement” system to utilize LEDs to synchronize the watch with six different time bases. Every hour, when the minute hand hits the 55 minutes mark, the watch will receive a time calibration signal which, if it doesn’t match with the watch, the LEDs will fire a beam of light to a phototransistor. The beam shines through a 300 micrometer hole in the gears for the hands. If the light doesn’t make it through, the gears will rotate until it can and then the time will be correct.

This new “Tough Movement” system also utilizes plastics as well as metal in the mechanisms to reduce weight and size. In some cases, it has reduced the cases up to 33%! I am also happy that they are adding this to the G-Shock line which is what mine is. Once mine dies, I might have to invest. It will start at $388 in Japan at the end of September, so I will have to wait until costs go down first!

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