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A watch for snipers

Watch Blogger — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:44:49 +0000

WristWatchReview writes about the H.R.T. Tactical Sniper Watch, which obviously is a watch especially made for snipers taking out people at long distances, say 1000 metres and more. It can help calculating the point of impact by inputting critical variables that determine elevation and wind adjustments. Sounds pretty scary to me, but I guess it is very useful for people who have to engage in such business. I could not find any price tag for this watch, but I bet it does not come cheap. The titanium case actually looks very nice.

Citizen VIRT Bluetooth watch

Watch Blogger — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:50:37 +0000

Watch Report has a feature on the Citizen VIRT, which is the first watch to incorporate Bluetooth connectivity. The Bluetooth seems to be mainly for communictating with your cellphone, providing features like displaying caller ID on the watch or synchronising with the phones address book. The watch also features an OLED display, which allows a bright display without eating up the batteries too fast.

Fiyta Chinese Taikonaut’s watch

Watch Blogger — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:24:45 +0000

Velociphile checks out the Fiyta Watch as used by the Taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) in 2003. While he declares its Miyota quartz movement to be officially trash, I think the new watch the Taikonauts use these days looks absolutely delicious:

I wonder if it has improved technically as well.

Christmas time, watches time

Watch Blogger — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:32:51 +0000

I wanted to know how interest in different brands of watches changed over time, so I used Google Trends to compare search volumes for some major brands:

What hits me are the two major spikes at the end of the year, which prove that interest in watches takes a huge leap around christmas time. Other than that, there seems to be a rather stable demand, not changing that much over the years.
I am also surprised about the relatively poor interest in Breitling. I consider their watches as some of the most beautiful and would have expected them to perform better when compared to the other brands. Seems like Rolex still generates the most interest though.