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New Nice idea
but clearly marketed to the affluent gadgeteer, thus far. Love the obvious sanity of solar recharge, but not at those prices.
Why is this still a rarity == Duh!! The atomic clock thing must add a million transistors, would be cute but I can live with +/- 10 sec and a reset once in a while (?)

Now whether or not you Need to use that Cee Dee to program all its abstruse arrays.. that's still a scary thought.
Will see how Eco-drive marketing goes, next; could maybe find my basics on a few dials--simply ignore the sidereal? or other amusing dials.
They don't seem to be addressing the 'simpler' market yet.

But it's all fun!
New Re: Nice idea
http://www.amazon.co...eco-drive&x=0&y=0

You can get an Eco Drive, without the bling, for less a hundred bucks.

If you don't mind "digital" and "ass-ugly", you can get a Tough Solar WaveCeptor G-Shock for under $60:

http://www.amazon.co...321086543&sr=1-14
New Thanks, pretty well covers the range
of this simplest display-dial form.

(re. the G-Sh(l?)ock, as you summarize)--it is exactly, if you don't mind ass-ugly.
I think that `2-yr. replacement' of any battery is now rendered antediluvian, just on principle.
May shortly settle for the lightest combo with expansion band (for quick on/off) and maybe Japanese solar;
Seiko has been accurate and reliable for me since '70s
I should reward such integrity, also registering a vote against the ethics-free corp. majority.

Sometime a sleeper Tissot may prove snatchable off eBay, with a low 'BIN'..
That would always be allowable under the art-exception budget clause.
New Re: Thanks, pretty well covers the range
I (and most watch folk who know a bit about such things) have massive respect for Seiko.

Horologically speaking, Seiko are pretty much the complete manufacture, much more so than more "prestigious" names like Breitling, Hublot and even Omega and Rolex.

They make all their own movements. All their own components. Even their own lubricants. From cheapo autos like the 7S26, with its clever magic lever (which reduces to four the number of moving parts in the automatic winding system) in the sub-£100 Seiko 5s to the Spring Drive movement in £10,000 Grand Seikos, there's innovation and invention everywhere. From the bottom of the range to the top, fit and finish is best-in-class.

Quite frankly, if I could only have one watch for the rest of my life, it'd be a Grand Seiko Spring Drive diver, probably an SBGA031 (Seiko don't spend much money on naming their watches).

http://www.grand-sei...rive/SBGA031.html
     New watchery - (pwhysall) - (21)
         Very nice. - (static)
         New? - (Another Scott) - (6)
             Re: New? - (pwhysall) - (5)
                 ROFL. - (Another Scott)
                 not into time (unless Im diving then a nice rolex will do) -NT - (boxley)
                 Bought a case to put my phone on my belt this week - (malraux) - (2)
                     You've changed, man - (pwhysall)
                     could be a wash - (lincoln)
         I was so happy when I got my 1st beeper. - (crazy)
         Great minds.. - (Ashton) - (11)
             Citizen EcoDrive is nice. - (Another Scott) - (7)
                 Re: Citizen EcoDrive is nice. - (pwhysall) - (2)
                     Neat. Does the G-Shock do Daylight/Standard tango for you ? -NT - (Another Scott) - (1)
                         Yep - (pwhysall)
                 Nice idea - (Ashton) - (3)
                     Re: Nice idea - (pwhysall) - (2)
                         Thanks, pretty well covers the range - (Ashton) - (1)
                             Re: Thanks, pretty well covers the range - (pwhysall)
             You'd like the one I used to have - (drook) - (1)
                 A bit too simple, actually - (Ashton)
             (Summary ... credited.) - (Ashton)

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