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Re: Omegamatic

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: It's truely a capacitor, not a battery.
: Omegamatic is another name for Auto-quartz
: (tissot), Kinetic (Seiko).

Thanks for the clarification on the capacitor -- I'm glad to hear this since capacitors typically have an indefinite duty cycle. When I researched Seiko's Kinetic and Citizen's Eco-Drive, I found that they both charge a small Lithium Ion cell, that will eventually need to be replaced, which is not clearly articulated in any of their documantation.

Luckily, it appears that Omega's design seems to be more durable in nature, even though they suffer comparitively in duration of full-charge (6-days for Omegamatic vs. 14- to 30-days). I'll trade the shorter charge time ANY day, for never having to replace a battery!

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0 wallclock secs ( 0.18 usr + 0.03 sys = 0.21 CPU)