Casio F-91W Watch: the Ultimate Terrorist Timepiece

How has a watch so universal in its appeal earned a reputation that could see you imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for owning one? Find out here.

I’m pretty sure you didn’t know your regular digital watch had behind that kind of relationship with terrorists. It’s one of the most popular and famous watches ever, and you can find it for less than $11. No obsolescence here:

Casio got everything so incredibly right the first time around that the only real update to their iconic timepiece over the past quarter century has been the introduction of a handful of new colorways.

The story is fantastic. Read it, please.

Source: Is the Casio F-91W Watch the Ultimate Terrorist Timepiece? | Highsnobiety

Javier Pastor is a technology journalist that has been writing about tech since 1999. He started writing for PC Actual in Spain, the leading printed magazine in the country, and in 2006 started to write online. First as the Chief Editor for The Inquirer ES, and after that for MuyComputer until 2013. That year he became senior editor at Xataka, the leading tech news website in Spanish with over 5M uniques/month (Aug'15, comScore). Xataka is part of Weblogs SL, a blog network that gets over 40M uniques/month and that has a wide catalog of publications in Spanish. The Unshut is his new venture and allows him to express his opinions and thoughts on everything touched by technology, and follows what he has been doing at Incognitosis, his personal blog, since 2005.