Seiko Kinetic Watches
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This ultra-modern men’s kinetic watch has sleek styling and advanced technological features. Like all Seiko kinetic watches, it is powered by human movement. Instead of relying on a battery, it draws energy from the natural movement of your wrist. It has a five-month power reserve capacitor, so that even if you leave it on the shelf for six months, it will continue to keep accurate time. It has both an overcharge prevention function and an energy depletion forewarning function.
This watch’s round white dial features a prominent stopwatch. The stopwatch second hand circles the main dial, measuring 1/5-second increments. The stopwatch minute hand measures up to 45 minutes. Both hands are blue and stand out against the white dial. If you simply want to know what time it is, you’ll find that displayed on two smaller sub-dials. This watch also features a date window at the 4:30 position. Other features of this watch include a sapphire crystal and a screw-down caseback. The watch has a polished stainless steel bezel with engraved numbers at five-minute intervals. Its case and bracelet-style band are crafted from brushed stainless steel with polished steel accents. The band fastens with a fold over push-button clasp. Water-tested to 100 meters, this watch is suitable for both swimming and snorkeling.
Kinetic: A powerhouse in technological innovation
Like mechanical and quartz, Kinetic is a platform. Over the past 20 years, SEIKO has created on this platform a suite of Kinetic movements, each bringing unique features to the consumer.
It was at the 1986 Basel Fair that SEIKO unveiled its first Kinetic prototype. Introduced under the trial name of ‘AGM’, it was the first watch in the world to convert kinetic movement into electrical energy. It was the first step in a development that, 20 years later, has made Kinetic synonymous with environmental friendliness, high performance and long-lasting convenience to a generation of users worldwide. From the launch in 1988 of the first commercially available watch (then under the new name AGS) until today, over eight million Kinetic watches have been sold (as of 2007).
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Is Nokia planning a mobile phone that can generate battery life purely by the power of movement?
As any smartphone user knows, once youÂ’ve checked your Facebook account, sent a couple of emails and made some calls, your phoneÂ’s battery is already beginning to flag. Nokia plan to change that charge-every-night ethos by creating a phone thatÂ’s charged by your movement.
A patent the Finnish company has filed shows plans for a mobile phone that utilises the energy created as you move to power it, much like kinetic watches have done on a smaller scale for years. It does so using piezoelectric crystals, which create an electric current when bent or compressed. Previously these crystals could only be created at high temperatures, but a breakthrough by scientists from Princeton and MIT suggests they could be printed onto rubber, making them suitable for mobile phone components.
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It is an analogue quartz watch equipped with the Kinetic technology developed by Seiko. It generates the electric energy to power the watch, utilizing the |
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generates a magnetic charge through gearing,” says Mark Willingham, national account executive at Seiko, who pioneered kinetic watches in the 1980s. |
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