![]() ![]() Taking a digital detox or a short break from your devices is usually a good idea, and in my opinion, it’s well worth spending $15 / £12 / AU$20 on a bit of famously (or infamously) reliable retro wristwear that allows you to do just that. Sometimes, people don’t want to know their Training Readiness score or get Twitter on their wrists: they want to be able to tell the time and date, and access a couple of other basic functions, on a cheap watch that will last the better part of the decade. (Image credit: Shutterstock / Sergei Lobkarev) I'm planning to do some strength-training sessions in the next few days, and I’ll use the old-school stopwatch function on the watch to time my rest periods. I didn’t have to turn it off when I went to the cinema, and when I used the extremely dim backlight to check the time, I didn’t have to worry about disturbing the people around me with the flash of a screen. I slipped it on a couple of days ago, and it’s more comfortable to wear, including to bed, than a larger unit like the Forerunner or Ultra you barely know it’s there. ![]() Now I’m having a rest before another challenge crops up, and I really don’t want to think about my heart rate variability, whether I slept well, or even have notifications on my wrist at all – I just want to give my brain a break. I just finished up a three-month training block, during which I used Training Readiness scores, Sleep scores, Morning Reports and a variety of other metrics and tools from Garmin and Apple to dial in my running and recovery routine. ![]() So why am I wearing one now? And does the Casio F-91W have a place in 2023, even on the wrist of someone who's invested in Apple's, Garmin's or Google’s wearable ecosystem? I’ve never considered myself a hipster, nor am I an amateur explosives expert. Elsewhere, modern-day hipsters have co-opted it as classic retro chic, a sort of protest against the late-stage capitalist idea of shelling out a small fortune for a watch that will be obsolete in a few years. The Casio F-91W has in fact featured on both sides of the War on Terror: Barack Obama was pictured wearing one in his pre-Senate days. So accurate, in fact, that it’s been infamously used in bomb making, to the point where US intelligence agents declared it to be ‘ the sign of al-Qaeda’ in training material issued to staff at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in 2011. If what’s meant to be will be, how many chances do you get?Ī rom-com for true romantics, 'PERFECT TIMING' is love at first sight, disrupted - but never forgotten.The movement is also notoriously accurate. Their run-ins are disastrous, and yet neither can write the other off and out of their life altogether. Through the bumpy beginnings of their creative careers, Tom and Jess can’t stop thinking about each other, whether it’s the right time or not. But things start to go awry, and when Jess hears from Tom’s best friend that there’s a girlfriend in the picture, she bolts.īut this meet-cute just won’t quit. What begins as a chance encounter and a scraped knee turns into something more during a magical night exploring the city’s streets and best pubs. ![]() When they wind up at the same Edinburgh festival, they run into each other, literally. Jess is a comedian looking to make it, and Tom is in a band hoping for its big break. But what happens when you meet the right person at the wrong time - over and over again? ![]()
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