welp I ordered that skmei watch

Welp #Skmei watch came in. For $20 it has astonishingly good build quality. At least thus far. Will report on whether or not it turns my wrist green. It has *heft* - definitely not just a plastic shell. The negative display is regrettable but manageable. But *weirdly* - and maybe this is a Skmei thing, dunno, this is my first one - this is the very first digital watch I've ever seen that *doesn't hack* - that is, you can't set the seconds!!

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A little bit better photo.
Oh, had to show you the display in action and how the seconds sort of flip! Neato!
still really digging this watch and I'm not even mad about the seconds not hacking thing. It's just so jankity 1970s in design, I just love it. It's sort of the polar opposite of the *other* 1970s-ish design watch I have, the *very wonderful* Steeldive SD1970, which is -- unlike the Skmei -- absolutely a *very* faithful homage to a Seiko Uemura/Willard.
if I get another Skmei will almost certainly be the Ripley Alien Casio A100, uh, homage. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010388412894.html
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