Now this is a gorgeous watch. Based on an original Hamilton design specially created for Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, $1195 gets you a titanium cased automatic watch with three sub-displays for Home Time, Dream Time and GMT.
Only 2001 of the X-01 model will be made, each with a tiny magnet hidden in the clasp used to set the tiny analogue displays. It’d certainly be a talking point dangling from your wrist.
Hamilton Watches [via Cool Hunting]
You know the scene – dull team meeting, boss spouting management speak for “work harder, you lazy fools, else it’s the chop for your worthless hides”, cellphone silently vibrating in your pocket. You’re desperate to get it out so you can see who’s calling (it might be the cute barmaid from your liquid lunch) but that would really push you to the front of the corporate gangplank. So you suffer through, squirming in ignorance until the end of the meeting.
This one’s obviously for the ladies. If you’re wanting to get pregnant then this watch plus a fertile man will get the job done. The watch by LAKS has all sorts of functions such as keeping track of your ovulation cycle, number of weeks pregnant, and even provides a babyname finder. Not much on style and selection though. Comes in black and white and looks like any old sportswatch but goes for a hefty 90 euros.
Via: WristDreams
Are you a top secret spy with a poor memory for faces? Have you been sent on a dangerous 00-style assignment to kill a three-nippled megalomaniac, only you can’t quite recall what he or she looks like? Well why not invest in this attractively styled and innovative Photo Frame Watch – it can store up to 26 images to display on its not-exactly-ground-breaking 96×64 pixel display (4096 colours!), transferred by a USB1.1 connection.
Sadly you’d have to order a minimum of 1000 of them – they don’t sell to individuals – but perhaps you can persuade your Government employers that they’d make ideal gifts for everyone at Christmas.
Time and tide waits for no man, they say. Well, I can’t help you with the tide – ever since my grandmother was swallowed practically whole by some quicksand during a holiday on the East coast of Scotland I’ve been petrified of the sea – but time, yes, I am your wristwatch saviour.
Run, don’t walk, to Tokyoflash and snap up this chunkily gorgeous retro-styled timepiece. Slick with bargain juice at a paltry $128, it’s a great two-fingered salute to the drably predictable “waterproof to 100m” multi-dial divers’ watches men are supposed to like.
Retrofit Product Page [Tokyoflash]
A man’s wrist is his castle. Or something like that. Anyway, the well-dressed geek about town should have a suitably unusual and tech-leaning timepiece, and that need has been well and truly sated by Connect Instruments’ Space Watch (and at $125 it still leaves cash aside for that DVD burner upgrade you so desperately need). With a glowing face reminiscent of the 70s shag-pad your mother lost her virginity in, a chunky stainless steel case and, well, some buttons, you’re all set for that night on the town (or the latest linux expo, anyway).
Just in case you’re unhappy with how large you MASSIVE iPod nano is, say hello to the iWatch. While this design isn’t actually in production at this time, it’s an extremely neat concept, featuring 10 GB of music storage and Bluetooth capabilities so users can listen to their music without being physically attatched to their arms (which would look really weird). While I would prefer an adjustable band for those of us with larger-than-normal wrists, you have to admit that the solid white bezel/band looks extremely slick and stylish, as we would expect of an Apple product. Let’s hope Apple notices Peter Burns’ design so that we may one day enjoy the pleasures of wrist-mounted audio.
[via TechEBlog]
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