While That $10 Chinese Watch I Got From Amazon Is Still Going Strong.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/17/swatch-watch-roosevelt-field-mall-long-island-pepper-spray-audemars-piguet/

It's got a digital face which tells the time and has a date function. Along with stopwatch, countdown and alarm functions. It also has an analogue display which tells the time and was even useful in calculating the angles in that gate I made. It's also solar powered so you never have to wind it or replace the battery.

Where they've clearly saved money is the controls. Setting the digital face is like entering a cheatcode on an old gaming console like Nintendo NES or Sega Master System;

↑↑→↓↓↓←←↑+hold a & b(3 secs).

In adjust it for the current British Summer Time I accidentally turned on the top of the hour chime and have no idea how to turn it off again.

It doesn't bother me. However it's clearly getting picked up by microphones. 

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