Pardon me, but do you have the time?

I remember having a Casio in the early 80s, like around 6th grade, and being addicted to checking the time 50x a day. I can't imagine having a smart watch. I'd never look away from it.
 
The Series 5 does have some crash or fall detection. I was mad at an elevator once (forget why) and was aggressively pushing the up button with my left fist. The watched said it looked like I fell and did it to call 911 for me.
 
It does now and I should refer it more of a car crash detection. I believe it ask you you want to call 911 for you if you are in a car crash? Then again if you are unconscious hopefully it calls 911 for you.

With the Ultra you can use it for scuba diving. In Arizona we are mostly desert and not much water. But I hike every now and then, my partner sad I wants to go camping. Couple of the extra features can help me out.
 
Back in the late 70's / early 80's I had a Casio digital watch that had a touch screen calculator.
It looked like a regular digital watch till you pushed a button on the side, then the calculator popped up.
My teacher thought that I finally figured out how to do my math assignments.
It was great till I scratched the face and the calculator part quit working.
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I think I told this story on here before, not sure. But my friend (who runs the 80s VJ guessing game) had an IR watch. Whenever we went over to this certain girl's house, he'd turn her TV on randomly. She'd be standing there and suddenly her TV would turn on (or off if it was on). Good fun!
 
I had an IR app on my phone, and would mess with the Mrs. from time to time.
It was great fun before she figured out what I was doing.
 
Pam bought me this for my birthday last December:

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It's the Garmin instinct 2 solar. It's the new version of the Garmin I've posted about here. Now. I know I've bitched a lot about smart watches and whatever, but this is the only watch I've worn since she got it for me. The cool thing is that you can add watch faces to this one. You couldn't do it in the instinct 1. So as you can see I have a ton of information all on my main watch face and I love that. I basically don't ever have to touch any of the buttons besides to see like my sleep patterns or start a stopwatch.

Also, I recently bought a bunch of watch bands for it so you can see how it's blue and white in the picture. I like doing those two-tone bands. I don't know. It's fun to like, mix and match the watch bands.

Now I know that this is not a real watch. It's like kind of a smart watch so it's more or less just a piece of tech I wear on my wrist, but I dig it. It looks kind of like a Casio G-Shock so that's also why I like it. And that's why these instincts are popular with other people too.
 
Well I've gone and done something silly.

I bought this today:

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The MRGB5000D-1

MR-G is Casio's version of Grand Seiko.

I bought it used so I got it for a bunch less than the MSRP.

Besides cars and my old condo I think this is the priciest single item I've ever bought.

And yes I understand it's insane to spend so much on a digital Casio. I mean there are some Omega's or Grand Seiko's I could have gotten at this price but you all know me, the G-Shock Square is my all time favorite watch so if I'm going to go nuts I may as well go nuts for something that I love and not something that I feel more obligated to get as a watch geek.

I'm an excited boy. It's supposed to come next week on or before next Thursday. I'm sure I'll be posting some irl pics.

Also it's coming from Japan so I think there's a chance I'll be getting a bill from customs or whatever on top of what I paid. That's something to look forward to hahahah.

Anyway, I'm very happy with my new toy.

This video does a pretty good job of explaining how while it may look like a Square, it is so much different than all the others:

 
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