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[Question] Is there any luxury digital or semi digital watches out there that aren’t smart watches? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by 2milliondollartrny@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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As the title says, I’m talking fully digital but not “smart” watch. To me something like the digital G-Shocks with heart rate monitors would be luxury digital watches - but monetarily speaking that’s a fairly cheap watch for luxury standards. Is there any out there that are super expensive with actual cool features that aren’t just expensive because they have the Omega, Rolex, etc. name on them. They can be Analog/Digital but nothing smart watch esque (touch screen that’s basically a mini phone). Never really thought about any cool features digital watches could have, i’ve only really cared about regular watches cool features so i just wanted to ask.

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[–] gregedit@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

May not be what you are looking for, but the A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk is the best, coolest, most unique and high end digital watch ever. Digital, as in displaying the time with digits, rather than in an analog way with hands on a dial. Not so easy, when you think about it, that the watch beats several times a second, but you want to digit displays to stay still for 1, 10 or 60 minutes and then jump precisely to the next number. It's probably not the "feature" you want, but very cool if you read about how it works.

If you want to drool over a high end feature, the Zeitwerk has a minute repeater version, so you press a button and it plays you a tune to tell you the time. Pretty cool, and all without electronics!

We are freaking nerds here, but I get it that you were asking for high end electronic digital watches. I don't really know much about those, but I always thought the form factor of the Omega X-33 was really cool.