Watches that offer both solar power and atomic radio time-syncing, I am willing to bet, call to mind for you, as they do for me, watches that hail from Japanese companies – and for good reason. Brands such as have really made atomic solar watches a big part of their portfolio, offering a variety of styles. It might come as a bit of a surprise, then, to learn that German ' Force Mega Solar is not a completely new foray for the brand. It was back in 1990 when Junghans came up with their first radio-controlled watch, and just three years later incorporated solar recharging. For their latest iteration, they've got a series of watches that can sync around the world (with American, German, and Japanese transmitters) and offer a 21-month stand-by capability. While these technical chops are interesting (and of course meet the criteria of a quartz watch doing what a mechanical cannot), it is not the only story here.

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Junghans has created some clean, classic styles with these Junghans Force Mega Solar watches, along with incorporating a variety of materials – including ceramic, with one being made fully in ceramic, while another model combines steel and ceramic. It is funny to think that with the materials and design of these Junghans Force Mega Solar watches, you would be hard-pressed to know that these were quartz watches. Well, aside from that LCD date display, of course. Many times, when we talk about atomic-solar watches, they are very much in the rugged/outdoors/chock-full-of-plastic category. Here, Junghans has gone in a much more reserved direction, with a few sportier models mixed in – but no plastic in sight. At first, I rather liked the designs that had the white dials, with the crisp presentation.

Looking at the pictures more closely, however, I feel the Junghans Force Mega Solar watches with the black dials actually are the more intriguing. With those, you can still see the solar panel in all its glory. For me, that look calls to mind the futurism of the 80s somehow (perhaps from seeing the first solar-powered calculators), and lends that extra bit of 'oomph' to the design for me. The new Junghans Force Mega Solar models are available now, with pricing coming in at $1,555. Frankly, if you are only going to have one or two quartz watches, one of them should be an atomic solar model – it will run for a long time with minimal intervention, and it will have the most accurate time of anything in your watch box, coming in handy for setting your mechanicals against, for instance.

While most comparable options have been very sporty models, Junghans gives you a more classic look to go with technical precision. Patrick Kansa (@PatrickWatches) is a BI and Data Solutions developer by day, and a [redacted] by night. When he's not compiling crazy huge data sets to drive data visualizations, he's spending time with his family, reading up on fascinating watches, whipping up something in the kitchen, or trying to graduate from being a professional amateur photographer. Xbox Live Account Hacker Download 2015 Free on this page. The photography ties directly into another passion - watches. This is a more recent development, and has only grown since he began writing about them in 2011.

He's loves the fact that we can carry these micro machines on our wrist without a second thought, and looks at watches through the lens of practicality, uniqueness, and relative value. Creature Del Mondo Emerso Pdf Download. And after all of that?

Well, we're not saying he is Batman, but we've never seen him and Batman in the same room. MarkCarson spiceballs Mark I said this about the price because just about a month back (when I was feeling a little more “liquid”) I dropped into Casio shop (in HK) and viewed their latest Ti Oceanus Solar GPS model (with some many dials and numbers of a size that made then almost illegible!) priced at roughly US$1600. OK, one can get G-shock and Edifice models now with GPS for less (resin cases & plastic straps) but to be fair and compare more like with like cases/bands I’d suggest Casio Oceanus.