Titanium Watches: Lasting, Lightweight Beauty

Wearing a titanium watch on your wrist says something special about you. A titanium watch speaks of your good taste, to be sure but it says more than just that. A titanium watch is evidence of your modern thinking. Titanium is the strong, low-density, corrosion-resistant metal that is used in manufacturing jet planes, airliners and spacecraft. Titanium occurs as a lustrous white element and its use in making fine watches was a remarkable, forward-thinking step into the future.

Several fine watchmakers now offer titanium watches. Skagen, Citizen and Suunto are just a sample of titanium watches you may purchase here are watchesgiant.com Luminox also makes a world-class titanium watch-- Luminox U.S. Air Force Titanium Stealth Series II Watches are lightweight, durable and some of the most stylish titanium watches you can find anywhere. The Luminox Stealth series is a licensed product of Lockhead Martin Corporation, marker of the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Jet.

Luminox also makes the Titanium Navy Seal Dive Watch, quite possible the handsomest watch -titanium or not- that's ever been made. With either the elegant matte black or midnight blue high gloss polished dial and black rubber dive strap, the Luminox Navy Seal titanium watch is simply the sexiest watch around. Plus it comes with Jeweled Swiss quartz movement with date function and ten-year lithium battery. Whichever titanium watch you go for, wearing one will make you feel good. You'll wish someone would ask for the time, so you can casually lift your wrist and look once again at your exquisite titanium watch.
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Sport Watches: Look Athletic Even While Sitting Still

Good sports equipment can cost a pretty penny, but a decent sports watch doesn't have to. Sure, you can go top-of-the-line and purchase a Seiko Le Grand Titanium sport watch (on sale right now at WatchesGiant) or you can spend a few hundred bucks less and still get a perfectly wonderful sports watch. For instance, the Timex Ironman Data Link USB sports watch can be had for under $100. It comes with so many powerful features, it's hard to believe how comfortable and lightweight it is.

Actually, the Timex Ironman Data Link USB sports watch comes with so many features you find yourself discovering more and more about your watch as you wear it; this is where the USB part comes in real handy. The Timex Ironman sports watch connects to your laptop or PC via a USB cable. This allows the user to manage the myriad alarms, timers and counters. Reorder your most-used modes to come up first and disable any features that you don't need.

Of course, most sports watches don't do double duty as personal organizers. They don't have to. It's enough that a sports watch can time events, such as laps, for you. Most sports watches come with multiple alarms, for keeping track of things, like when it's time to take a break and have lunch at the clubhouse. Sports watches are by their very nature built to survive stress and weather better than standard wristwatches.

Most sports watches are weather resistant and many are waterproof to certain diving depths. A sports watch makes you look athletic even when you're sitting perfectly still, lunching in the clubhouse.
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Kinetic Watches: Motion Makes it Happen

Kinetic watches? No, they're not made in the Nutmeg State by bad spellers. Kinetic is the way these watches are powered and it's really quite fascinating. Kinetic, from the Greek word for motion, describes how these wristwatches take the movement of the wearer and with the help of a tiny oscillating weight, transfer it into a magnetic charge which is then converted into electricity. Sound complicated? It is. So complicated that as the Seiko watch company developed the first kinetic watch, they applied for some fifty patents along the way.

Seiko remains the premier maker of kinetic watches, and why not-- they perfected the first kinetic, human-powered wristwatch and nobody has been able to build a better kinetic watch yet. Kinetic watches aren't cheap, but they never need winding or batteries and that van be priceless. Sure, most watch batteries last a fairly long time. But no matter how long one lives, when it does die it's always too soon and the wrong time. Kinetic watches are always charged, always set. The kinetic energy generated by wrist movements of the wearer is stored for up to six months in either a capacitor or small rechargeable battery.

Kinetic watches are good for the environment, too. Batteries are a ghastly things to throw away. Batteries release all sorts of nasty stuff into the landfill they're buried in. Since kinetic watches never need a new battery, there's never an old one to toss. Kinetic watches are one of the few true Jetsons-like inventions you can actually own. If you require a watch you can always count on, get yourself a kinetic watch.
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Diving Watches: Going Dooooown

Lots of watches say they're water resistant, mostly meaning that rain won't kill them and some brag that they can survive underwater to a certain number of feet. These will do if you're a stay-on-the-beach seashell collector or poolside Frisbee-tosser. But, if you're serious about your waterplay, an actual diving watch is what you require. For one thing, diving watches are waterPROOF, not merely resistant. Diving watches are made with especially strong materials put together with extra precision to ensure that they can withstand the atmospheric pressure that increases with each additional foot of depth.

A good diving watch will have a built-in timer and alarm for keeping track of how long you've been down and when you need to begin your ascent. At the top of the diving watch line are the diving watches of the Luminox Navy Seal series. Crafted to exacting military specifications, Luminox diving watches are elegant as well as functional. Go full tilt and get yourself a Navy Seal diving watch encased in titanium with a scratch resistant mineral glass crystal that's tempered for extra strength and durability. The Luminox line of diving watches includes a Ladies dive watch that's a more delicate version of the Navy Seals diving watch. The ladies dive watches come with several choices of dial color. Nice when you're diving through a school of flashing tropical fish-- have a little color to flash back at them.

Timex makes an affordable line of good diving watches, as do RipCurl and Citizen. Watchesgiant.com carries them all. Timex's Reef Gear series are mostly less than fifty dollars-- an incredible deal considering you get a well-made diving watch with timer and alarm. Some of the Timex diving watches even come with temperature sensors. Whether you purchase a moderately-priced Reef Gear diving watch or go all-out and splurge on a Luminox Navy Seal titanium diving watch, each time you're underwater you'll be glad you're wearing one. Count on it.
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Atomic Watches: How Do They Do That?

An atomic watch? No, an atomic watch isn't nuclear-powered. An atomic watch is without a doubt the most precise, accurate way to wear time on your wrist. Why? Because an atomic watch periodically receives a synchronizing signal (usually at night) from the Atomic Cesium Clock in Colorado, which is accurate to within one second every million years. Why at night? Although an atomic watch can manually 'reach out' to the synching signal anytime, it's better done at night when the airwaves are less polluted by things such as cell phones.

Atomic watches contain an internal antenna to receive the cesium signal and a program to decode it. You never need to set the time or date on an atomic watch, nor do you have to adjust an atomic watch for daylight savings time. Until atomic watches come with GPS (Global Positioning), you will need to adjust when travelling to a different time zone. This is no big deal-- once you're in a new zone just tell your atomic watch to synchronize itself and it will.

You might guess that an atomic watch comes with an assortment of wink-wonks and you'd be correct. Consider for instance the Casio G-Shock GW1000DJ-9 Atomic Solar Watch, available right here at watchesgiant.com The G-Shock atomic watch not only keeps perfect time, it collects energy from sunlight (or bright room light) so you never have to wind it or replace its battery. The G-Shock atomic watch can display time in twelve or twenty-four hour format. It comes with a stopwatch, five daily alarms, a thirty-city world clock, automatic calendar and is waterproof to 200 meters.

If keeping the most accurate time possible is vital to you, by all means get yourself an atomic watch.
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