Adam Kos There is probably no need to walk around the hot mess: Apple Watch is a great smart watch, but it has one major flaw. As you can guess, it is their battery life. One day of normal use is simply not enough - at least to use their full potential. But maybe it dawns on a better tomorrow. The Sequent Elektron watch has a truly unique mechanism.
In the watch industry, you will encounter three common types of movement mechanism. It is about:
- Manual winding, which usually needs to be wound daily with the crown.
- Automatic winding that drives the rotor purely with the help of the natural movement of your hand.
- Quartz or Accutron, i.e. a battery-powered movement.
The first has the disadvantage that you simply have to remember to wind the watch. If you don't remember, the clock stops. For the third, it is necessary to replace the battery from time to time (usually every 2 years). In the case of cheaper models, however, you will not be notified in any way of running out of juice, so your battery can run out even at the most inopportune moment. More expensive models have this solved with a seconds hand moving usually in threes, which saves the remaining energy and you get a clear indication that it's time to change.
Almost everyone knows the shape of the Apple Watch:
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Automatic winding has no practical disadvantages. If you wear such a watch every day, it will work day after day without any problems. The winding reserve is also determined here, when with certain types of watches it is possible to take them off your hand on Friday and they are still running on Monday. Of course, this solution is also one of the most expensive.
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Matter of the heart
Fitness bracelets and smart watches, including the Apple Watch, are usually powered by an integrated battery that can be recharged regularly. Whether battery-operated movements or lithium-ion batteries, of course, have no weight in the watch industry. Battery-powered movements are cheap and simple, and of course any smart watch does not have its own "heart" in the form of a movement.
This is what the Leitners Ad Maiora hybrid watch looks like:
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The Czech company tried to meet all watch enthusiasts Leitners. She implemented not only an automatic movement in her Ad Maiora model, but also a battery superstructure. Such a watch therefore has its heart in the form of an automatic movement, and at the same time provides many smart functions. Such watches are called hybrid, but they also need to be charged once in a while. But he tried to develop this concept even further Sequent Electron.
And this is already a novelty in the form of Sequent Elektron:
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Smart by half
Their integrated battery is supplied with energy by the rotor moving with you as you move your hand. This watch therefore represents a potential ideal of how to combine classic watchmaking with modern functions. They will provide you without the need for charging, while they will not run out of energy. Of course, this technology is at the beginning of its journey, so even if the watch is "smart", it does not contain a display and for all measured values you have to go to the app on the paired mobile phone. The automatic winding is also not purebred, but that can be picked up with other models.
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But why am I actually writing about it? Because this is the real ideal that I would be willing to take on my hand in the form of any "smart" watch or fitness bracelet. As a collector of vintage watches, I just don't relate to the electronics, and I'd rather wear a stupid watch with a history for a few hundred than a feature-bloated Apple Watch for thousands, the features of which I won't use anyway. But if Apple were to introduce something like this, I'd be first in line.
Hello, in my opinion it is not so much about what is the future of smart watches. But it is more aimed at other market segments. I had a Kronaby Sekel, but after three years I changed it to an Apple Watch. Precisely because I missed functions for sports, notifications on the display, convenient music control and the like. But Kronaby itself looks much more like a classic watch. I consider both to be perfect products. But everyone just has a slightly different purpose.
As already written above, these are completely incomparable pieces of electronics. Sequent is not a smartwatch, and not by mistake, it is more of a fit bracelet with a watch design and a well-designed power supply system. The Leitner ones are closer to smart watches and I personally like them a lot and it seems like a nice compromise. But the real smartwatches are only the Apple Watch, Samsungs and a few devices with Android Wear, because only those can actually install applications. Their disadvantage is that the full-fledged system that runs in them and the HW that is needed for it eat the battery in exactly the same way as it happens with smartphones. So Sequenty is going in the right direction, but it will be a long time before real smartwatches can solve this problem.
parade... having an almost "smart" watch with an accuracy of -10 +30s per day is something you don't just find :D
Miyota claims that the caliber 9039 offers accuracy of -10 ~ +30 seconds per day.
You forgot solar
The person who wrote it probably doesn't understand for hours. System Seiko Kinetic has been used since 1988 and it is still the same principle that the author writes about as a novelty. At least study something before he starts writing lies. M