I bought a [1] nice atomic watch from [2] Sharper Image over the weekend. I meant to spend my $100 gift card [3] weeks ago but the mall we went to (on the other side of Cleveland) didn’t have the store there.

Being a guy that loves his watches (I have a large collection indeed), this has to be one of my favorites. I’ll have to call it the [4] Hummer of all watches due to the sheer size of its watch face. This watch is probably twice or three times the size of my other watches. It dwarfs a [5] Casio G-shock. If you know what a Casio G-shock looks like, you’ll know what I am talking about.

One slight problem I have with it, is the way the date is displayed. Considering it is sold in the USA, I find it odd to find the date display set to a European/ Asian style setting i.e. the day is first then followed by the month. Even living in Asia and England, although the dates were written as such, I never had digital watches that I bought there displayed that way.

Either than that, this watch is a unique one, it not only auto-synchronizes its time to an accuracy of 2 seconds in one country (the USA) but in 3 other global zones too — United Kingdom, Germany (which covers all of Western and some parts of Central Europe) and Japan (covering all of Japan and Korea). The other nice handy functions include a countdown timer, a stop watch, alarm and a dual time setting… ones normally found in a decent digital watch.

The rest of my $100 gift certificate was spent on a [6] silver travel alarm clock and a [7] cool desktop fan. J had to drag me out of the store as I could have spent the whole day there. Ending with a visit to J’s favorite grocery store [8] Trader Joe’s to pick up a Chocolate Tort cake and several other delicious oven bakes, I’ll say our trip was pretty resourceful. I’m definitely a happy camper, that is until I next see something on [9] Gizmodo or [10] Thinkgeek I want but don’t necessarily need.