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Tigole

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Feb 19, 2016

For those that don't wear a watch all the time or have multiple watches, I'd steer away from kinetics. They're not like mechanical watches in that watch winders can't keep them charged--they either don't spin fast enough or often enough for kinetics. Kinetics have coils in them for wireless charging. Seiko has a wireless charger for it, but it's rare and expensive. There are wireless chargers for other products that have been reported to work--such as those for Philips' Sonicare and their candle lights--but it's sort of hit or miss and kludgy. My first kinetics were purchased over 15 years ago. Those had capacitors for energy storage that tended to fail or lose significant capacity after 10-15 years. I hear that more modern kinetics have a rechargeable lithium battery instead. Lithiums get permanently damaged if discharged too low. Granted, kinetics can go months before needing winding/charging. But if you forget, the battery will be damaged and have permanently reduced capacity. Given the tradeoffs, I don't know why Seiko still bothers with this complication. I'd rather deal with changing a watch battery every 5 years. Or have it solar powered.

Feb 19, 2016