New Casio Sports Watch is Compatible With iPhone Fitness Apps
Casio, which launched its first Casio G-Shock watch with Bluetooth technology in 2011, introduced the latest generation in its series of smartphone-compatible watches at last week’s 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Casio STB-1000 uses Bluetooth v4.0, with low-energy wireless technology, to enable wearers to check personal fitness data from popular mobile apps, operate a music player on a smartphone, and more. With the new STB-1000, Casio extends its iPhone compatibility, enabled through Bluetooth v4.0, to the sports-watch category. It is compatible with four iPhone fitness apps: Abvio's Runmeter, Walkmeter, and Cyclemeter (abvio), as well as Wahoo Fitness (wahoofitness), all of which are downloadable from the Apple App Store. The Casio STB-1000 can be used to check personal fitness data such as running pace and distance, elapsed time, pulse, cycling speed,and pedal rotations. In addition, it offers all of the essential functions of a modern-day Casio watch, includ

HYT H1 Hyrdo Mechanical Watches Start Shipping + Mini Interview
The much anticipated and highly fawned over HYT H1 Hydro Mechanical watch is now shipping to retailers globally. Just the fact that HYT is telling us this is a good sign. Why? Well when we go to shows liked Baselworld to see new products, they are often prototypes or pre-production models. Brands use those experiences with the media and retailers to determine how many watches to build, or whether certain pieces should be produced at all. Immediately after people like me see cool stuff we want to write about them. For example, I did a hands-on article with the HYT H1 watch here. Consumers interested in the watches after learning about them at that point have no opportunities to buy them. When they are eventually released most brands offer no announcement which really makes it difficult for people to know when the timepieces they want to buy are eventually available for sale.HYT announces the global release of the HYT H1 watch collection with a fun video, and an actual announcement which

HourTime Show Watch Podcast Episode 118 - Pilot Approved
We talk pilot watches and pilots - why do they love Breitling? A bit on the Asian watch market and a lot on the Brown Chronos Safe (for seriously expensive watch collections). Also, how does the iPhone 5 compare with high-end watches?Listen to the HourTime Show watch podcast episode 118 here.? Download the MP3 here.

Got the Apollo 15th today
Another smooth transaction with George (Kringkily). I decided to sell my omega 15000 gauss for this. Loved the 15000 guess but found it heavy after while and didn't feel very comfortable compare to my milgauss GV. So decided to add another speedy to the collection instead.image.jpg

Is the Omega 2500 a good calibre?
I recently read in another post that the 2500 fitted with the co-axial escapement was not necessarily a good calibre. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?