Casio B640W Retro Style LCD

Today's watch is a modern watch in a retro style. Casio is known for their destinctive LCD watches and this is one of their recent versions.

Thw watch is the B640W, or B640WB-1B to give it it's full title. This version has a black resin case and black ion plated strap, as well as an inverse LCD display (as opposed to the -1A version which has the more 'normal' black on white display).

The watch has a 2394 module with a stopwatch and countdown timer features, as well as an alarm and hourly chime option (and it is possible to get the amber backlight to flash when the alarm sounds).

Being a modern version, the calendar is set to run to 2039, and should last 2-3 years on the CR2016 battery. 

Freedom from my smart watch

After I began using a smart watch with fitness tracker, it became hard to do my regular wearing of new watches. If you don't wear the watch every day, it loses a lot of the value in the tracking.

So, I decided to move my fitness tracker to a smart ring instead, freeing up my wrist for whatever watch I want. Of course, I'll miss the message notifications from my Withings watch, but now I can work through more of my watch collection instead.

Because of this, I plan to get back to occasional blogging. Not as frequent as before, but better than I have been recently.

For those interested, I chose the Oura smart ring. The reason was that it was the most comprehensive in terms of sensors/data for the price. It has a subscription model, which I dislike, but there was no good enough alternative without the fees.