Reader James sent me a link to Steel Cake watches, a new watch company in Brooklyn that makes beefy, larger quartz pieces for cheap. Their line-up includes a large, square chrono and an oversized military piece that don’t look like Chinese OEM knock offs, which makes me very happy. Besides, how can you go wrong for $125 a pop?
Another day, another TokyoFlash watch. This one lets you measure BPMs while spinning hot wax at da club. Useful? Not sure. Fun? Absolutely.
Oots Oots Oots: You Gotta Believe the Equalizer BPM Helps You Raise The Roof[CrunchGear]
I never loved TokyoFlash watches — they were usually too gimmicky — but this one looks like a great design. You tell the time using the two rotating polygons and it comes in blue and orange resin. How much? $123 plus shipping, which isn’t to shabby for some real Tokyo-inspired time-telling.
Truly one of the nicest watches available at Tokyoflash.
* Time only
* Resin Inlay
* English & Japanese Instructions
* Butterfly Clasp
* Super 2035 movement
* 4 year battery life
I’m not in love with this thing, but if you like Entourage and watches, then go ahead and pick this up. I can’t imagine it’s much more than $500 and if it is then someone is paying too much for a watch.
In fact, the only telltale details that link it to the show are the star design on the face and an engraved quote on the back of the case: “A lifestyle is a terrible thing to waste.” The handsome watch features a steel case and screw-in black face plate, Japanese movement, and water-resistance to 50 meters. A nice perk: the watch was made in a limited edition of 300 pieces.
Limited Edition Eos Entourage Watch [ProductDose]
I never got into Oakley, but they seem to be going nuts now with the Swiss quartz beasties. This has a stop watch and big date and looks like something a robot brontosaurus pooped out.
Oakley Judge Stealth Black [PROFESSIONAL WATCHES]
Rado has some nice styling, but I think this Dynamic-alike they’re releasing in congunction with the Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup is a bit gimpy. Looks like a quartz piece as well. Read on for the rest of the release.
It’s nothing terribly special – just a watch shaped like a Dreamcast – but the great thing is that this opens up like the Dreamcast’s pop-top CD tray. It’s on pre-order now for delivery around September 29th.
Product Page [Play-Asia]
Looks like this Issey Miyake watch costs $205 and is pretty hot right now with the Japanese fashion watch set. I’d say pass, but do what you feel.
Product Page [Brando]
CABANE de ZUCCA Eye Patch [Wrist Dreams]
From TheSportingLife.net – “Oh you naughty little…oh sorry sir, yes, the quarterly figures.” Distract yourself with this Tokidoki Sun watch featuring a picture of a saucy Japanese lady showing you just where the sun rises. With a leather strap and metal rimmed face, the watch should stand up to whatever abuse you throw at it.
Available for $95.
Product Page [Bazaar Adriatic via Productdose]
A Movado sport watch? With a wavy fact and big arrow hour hand? Perhaps someone is seeing their market share drop?
I don’t like Movado much – so much depends on that single big dot that you almost lose the watch – but this sports model, apparently a quartz piece, has some chops. It comes on a rubber or steel band and costs about $1,000.
Best of all, NFL MVP Tom Brady is flogging the thing and saying stuff like:
“Movado is all about style and precision and that fits exactly what I try to bring both on and off the field, so I hope it’s a long term association,” the New England Patriot said. “A professional athlete’s life is highly scheduled. I practically need military discipline to keep pace, so time is definitely something I’m interested in.”
Deep.
Product Page [Movado]
Movado Has a New MVP [FashionWeekDaily.com]
WWR Reader and Friend Ben has a Zulu and really likes it. I’ve never really played with it, but this first look seems pretty interesting. Looks considerably more attractive than the older models, that’s for sure.
The Zulu from YES is similar in functions (sunrise/sunset tracking, multiple time zones, etc…), but several orders of magnitude higher in quality (titanium bands, sapphire crystal, presentation case).
In this review, we’ll take a closer look at the details of the Zulu. In other upcoming articles, we’ll look at changing the straps, the various functions, and our impressions after wearing the watch for a while.
Wild Seed Inc. YES Zulu [RainyDay]
Blort blort, friends, because Namco just released a Pac-Man watch for all you geekses out there. This $130 watch is in a limited 500 piece run.
PAC-MAN moves with an invisible ‘second’ hand around the dial to chomp up the pellets, as well as bonus cherries and a Scaredy ghost which accent the ’3′ and ’9′ hour markers.
Product Page [Namco via WristDreams]
Reader Art Taylor recounts a tale of confusing rules, deluded sales folks, the hardest he ever had to work to give his money away.
In an effort two get two straps for is JLC watches, he suffered from a Kafka-esque interregation about this collection.
She went on to explain that ordering straps is always the hardest thing to do with the watch company, and that they require so much extra information before agreeing that a particular strap is the correct one for a given watch. Then she rolled her eyes in empathy and said that maybe she always ended up talking to “new people”.
At this point, I saw that she was clearly insane. I told her that I bet their JLC salesman had the numbers in his catalog, and went over to get the info. I returned with the numbers, and she was so concerned she uncaged the senior watchmaker (who was all of twelve and wearing an IWC Big Pilot on his 6″ wrist) to verify that everything was all right and she wasn’t committing herself and the store to litigable exposure by letting me order a watch strap based on a mere specification book produced by the manufacture.
Josef K. runs the strap department at Jaeger-LeCoultre [Astrogoth]
I hate myself for doing this, but people are silly and they’ll do anything, so here’s a link to the Tauchmeister sale page. Are these watches any good? Not specifically, but they’re cheap and they’re all on sale so you don’t have to fight a bunch of n00bs on Ebay. Purchase with the caveat that you’re buying for looks, not build quality, and be happy.
Prodcut Page [Tauchmeister]
Please, TokyoFlash, just stop. No more. We give up. How much longer until your watches just shoot darts into our eyes?
Time is read by splitting the display into 2 halves. Top half for hours & bottom half for minutes, and the day of the week is indicated by written characters MO, TU, WE etc that curves around the display.
i-Pattern LCD grid time Latitude [TokyoFlash]
