[phyzome]

I have a Thinkpad and a featurephone, but I specifically dislike Casio's insistence on big, chunky, over-featured watches. I wish they'd go back to making the kind of watch they made in the 90s.

The one I had had an 8 year battery life, time/date alarms, timer, stopwatch, back/forward buttons. 30 phone number storage, heh. Nothing else. The only thing it was missing and could have used was a backlight.

Many of their newer watches also have this awful thing where if you hold own one of the buttons for a few seconds, it does a DST transition. Which is terrible, because suddenly your watch is off by an hour.

[jdietrich]

> I wish they'd go back to making the kind of watch they made in the 90s.

Many of their 90s watches are still in production, including the legendary/notorious F91W.

https://www.casio.com/products/watches/classic

[reaperducer]

Wow. I have a friend who's part of the 80's Mercedes crowd. Now I know what to get her for Christmas. Thanks!

[devereaux]

Well, that's another thing. I'd love to get my hand on a 1980-1980 Mercedes.

Another thing build for live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W126

I'd love to import a well maintained one, still featuring its original parts.

[lmz]

To add to the other comment, they still sell the Databank watches too: https://www.casio.com/products/watches/databank

[chihuahua]

Timex Ironman might fit your needs. You can disable some features that you don't want. Indiglo backlight is excellent. They are cheap ($35) but not always durable

[germinalphrase]

I use one. It’s excellent for what it is, though the pushers aren’t as responsive as I’d like after a year or two.

[rangibaby]

I have worn a g-shock daily since 2014, functionally I don’t remember it being much different to the one I had in 2001

[goatinaboat]

They do still make minimalist G-Shocks e.g. 5600 series