Casio to Release Ring Watch
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5 days ago
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| hypebeast.com
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mbrubeck
15 hours ago
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gainda
15 hours ago
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I don't know if I'll get one but its adorable. It would pair nicely with my A-168W-1
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motohagiography
14 hours ago
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a ring? meh. what made the F-91W cool is nostalgia for genx chess clubs and terrorism. i don't see how this captures that.

I've often said I wanted to buy Atari and rebuild it as a proper luxury brand starting with a phone, but without something vulgar like gucci group would do, or the abomination that vertu became. Casio could make modern stuff and position itself as a similar heritage brand, they're basically the royal enfield of electronics. something cheap and cheerful from the past that has persisted and define a lot of memories for people. glad they're trying stuff, but they need to hire marketing/product designers from behringer, teenage enginnering, etc. casio needs a wes anderson makeover to make them relevant now.

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lmz
14 hours ago
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Meh. The cool/ fashionable Casios are mostly branded G-Shock nowadays.
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roschdal
16 hours ago
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How awfully impractical.
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drivers99
15 hours ago
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I was thinking the opposite: Seems useful. I need my other hand free to look at my watch when I'm wearing a coat, in order to pull back the sleeve.
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samatman
4 hours ago
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You'd hate my (functional!) watch cufflinks then.
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relyks
15 hours ago
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Yeah, but I'd say it's more of a fashion statement
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