Tuesday, November 24, 2009
13:03 by FoxTwo Recently I came to know of a brand of watches called Reactor. They are supposedly the most rugged watches you can get, somewhat on par or perhaps even better than G-Shocks, due to their Reactor DNA philosophy. I looked for this brand in Singapore, but (of course) they weren't available locally in retail shops. So I had to go online and get one if I wanted one.
I picked the Reactor Trident 59501 watch, and purchased it off Amazon.
It has day and date display, and hour, minute and seconds hand. I don't like analogue watches with chronograph functions - they clutter up the dial too much. The numbers on the dial are coated with Super Luminova, which is supposed to last longer than most luminous paints on other watches. The Trident series has something more - tritium tubes that stay lit permanently for at least 25 years. Thus, when the luminous glow fades away over the night, the hands and markers remain visible in the dark. It also is waterproof to 200 metres, which makes it a "divers watch" with a screw-down crown, and it also has a battery life of 10 years.
When it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised at the heft of the watch - it has some weight to it, and makes it feel rugged. I actually stuck the watch on a scale and weighed it - it is 190 grams (although the website says it is 198 grams). It outweighed my Pulsar watch by 10 grams :)
Over the course of about a month, the watch has thus far lost only 2 seconds. Pretty impressive accuracy, better than the Pulsar in fact (which gains 3 seconds a month on average). So if I set this watch once and never fiddle with the time again for a year, it'd only be 24 seconds out. This makes it the most accurate watch I have in my modest collection now, a far cry from my older G-Shocks. They could be out as much as 40 seconds a month.
The day/date window is adjusted the usual way - turn the crown one way for day, the other way for date. The day display is in 2 languages - English and probably Spanish. Thus, at midnight, the day doesn't flip over to the new day immediately. It'll flip twice between midnight and 5am, where it will finally display the current day in the language of your choice.
I have now made this watch my "daily wearer". It's casual enough to go with T-shirt and jeans, and it fits in pretty nicely in office-wear too. I have had some colleagues commenting on how nice it looks, especially with the black nitride steel band. This makes it different to the rest of the watches with normal stainless steel brushed-metal bands.
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13:03 by FoxTwo Recently I came to know of a brand of watches called Reactor. They are supposedly the most rugged watches you can get, somewhat on par or perhaps even better than G-Shocks, due to their Reactor DNA philosophy. I looked for this brand in Singapore, but (of course) they weren't available locally in retail shops. So I had to go online and get one if I wanted one.
I picked the Reactor Trident 59501 watch, and purchased it off Amazon.
It has day and date display, and hour, minute and seconds hand. I don't like analogue watches with chronograph functions - they clutter up the dial too much. The numbers on the dial are coated with Super Luminova, which is supposed to last longer than most luminous paints on other watches. The Trident series has something more - tritium tubes that stay lit permanently for at least 25 years. Thus, when the luminous glow fades away over the night, the hands and markers remain visible in the dark. It also is waterproof to 200 metres, which makes it a "divers watch" with a screw-down crown, and it also has a battery life of 10 years.
When it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised at the heft of the watch - it has some weight to it, and makes it feel rugged. I actually stuck the watch on a scale and weighed it - it is 190 grams (although the website says it is 198 grams). It outweighed my Pulsar watch by 10 grams :)
Over the course of about a month, the watch has thus far lost only 2 seconds. Pretty impressive accuracy, better than the Pulsar in fact (which gains 3 seconds a month on average). So if I set this watch once and never fiddle with the time again for a year, it'd only be 24 seconds out. This makes it the most accurate watch I have in my modest collection now, a far cry from my older G-Shocks. They could be out as much as 40 seconds a month.
The day/date window is adjusted the usual way - turn the crown one way for day, the other way for date. The day display is in 2 languages - English and probably Spanish. Thus, at midnight, the day doesn't flip over to the new day immediately. It'll flip twice between midnight and 5am, where it will finally display the current day in the language of your choice.
I have now made this watch my "daily wearer". It's casual enough to go with T-shirt and jeans, and it fits in pretty nicely in office-wear too. I have had some colleagues commenting on how nice it looks, especially with the black nitride steel band. This makes it different to the rest of the watches with normal stainless steel brushed-metal bands.
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