On everyone’s lips is the new single by Shakira, Music Sessions #53, released with the Argentine producer bizarre. It’s a barrage of missiles against your ex-husband, Gerard Piqué, after having left her for the young Clara Chía, whom he compares to… a Casio watch.
“You traded a Rolex for a Casio”, says the barranquillera in the subject, alluding to the simplicity of the Japanese watch against the luxury of the Swiss.
Let’s talk about Casio. One of the companies born in the postwar period in Japan, the Kashio Keisanki Kabushiki gaisha He began his journey repairing plane ticket issuing machines and others at airports.
After working with calculators from the US military, he ventured into the business of this type of technology, creating smaller ones, until reaching the common laptops today… and watches with calculators.
In 1969, Casio invented the first digital liquid crystal display (LSC) quartz wristwatch, the Casiotron. Then would come watches with stopwatches, pocket calculators and the aforementioned watches with calculators, the CA-53, Popularized since the mid 1980s.
Casio F-91W, the most popular watch in the history of the Japanese brand
But the most popular watch in the history of Casio It’s the F-91W. They started to produce it in 1989 until today, and it is known not only for its multi-functionality, but for its durability.
“It is a model that as soon as you find it on the wrist of a beautiful stewardess of the most elite jewelry, as on the arm of a Russian or Afghan fighter, passing through the indigenous people of a lost village in the Amazon”, says the Zona Casio portal.
This creation of the Japanese house It has a 1/100 second chronograph with a count up to 59:59:99.
Among its functions are the alarm, automatic calendar, a green led backlight, and being waterproof. It weighs only 21 grams and its energy consumption can last more than 5 years.
So it can be less luxurious, as Shakira ignores in her allusion to Clara Chía, but also very functional. Things of technology (and of love?).
