This ubiquitous little digital Casio F-91W watch offers unbeatable features for next to no money, and is an enduring cultural icon.

The brilliant horological innovations of historic watchmakers like Huygens and Breguet, past generations’ quest for ever greater precision and accuracy, the centuries of mechanical refinements and craftsmanship…were they all leading to this? It costs almost no money and looks like it could have come out of a gumball machine, but the Casio F-91W watch is an astoundingly reliable timekeeper and outperforms fancy mechanical watches at almost every metric.
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