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Casios solar powered atomic watches are the ultimate in digital watch technology, says Kazuo Kashio, president and Chief Executive Officer of Casio. According to this article in the Times Online, Mr. Kashio (or, as we Westerners might pronounce it, Casio), believes watches that dont require batteries and that are always correct are pretty much the perfect digital watches. From my experience of the watch business, I Replica Omega 1513.51 Double Eagle Perpetual Calendar Watch think I can say that our solar-powered watches that set themselves by radio control are the ultimate form of watch we can expect. Look, they are never inaccurate by as much as a second and never need batteries.As a big fan of Casio digital watch technology myself, I was worried when I first read Mr. Kashios words.

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