coolest watch

whoa. that’s crazy.

steppenwolf: thanks for the warning. Do you know how they show light through the silicone? Is it just a thin coating with segmented LCD behind? How do they get touch sensitivity on silicone?

Would love to buy a Bruan Watch. I want to see one in person first. Not sure I trust the band connection.


I actually just bought one of these.

http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-SNK809-Automatic-Black-Strap/dp/B002SSUQFG

after I lost this watch. Timex Easy Reader

(had switched it to a Nato strap)

The flaw in the Braun watch isn’t the band connection (0nly time will tell on that…). It’s the freakishly small date display. Almost invisible because of the shadow around the die cut. Maybe younger eyes won’t have the same trouble.



Current favorite watch comes only with a rubber band, after getting converted to NATO straps in this thread, I can wear nothing else, and no way to attach it. Project in Rhino3D and printed via Shapeways, the solution, custom made bronze-infused stainless steel laser sintered links. They came out 0.1 mm too big and needed a bit of filing. Cool to be able to make custom watch parts and have them arrive in less than ten days.


The links came out a bit too bronzed, anyone know a way to blacken this hybrid metal material?

Really? no ones mentioned uniformwares?

I think they’re awesome. I run one of these at the mo:
http://eu-shop.swatch.com/GB/EN/Watches/Originals/New_Gent/BLACK_REBEL-SUOB702.aspx

and I can hardly see the time (let alone the date!)…not great, but Uber-Black.

Chevis: maybe it’s the mid-west designers that wear big watches. On here and in my life, I’ve noticed very thin and restrained watches like the Braun that dominate with designers.

Exactly. I just don’t like clunky watches. And that is why I snapped up a 30 year old BWC Swiss (manual) from an
elderly friend, which nicely complements the stainless accents in the new mo-i clipper:

Note how small the diameter of that watch really is. 36mm, about 1,45 inches.
BWC-Courage-1.jpg

Recently bought a Tsovet SVT AR77… it is kind of a baby B&R, but it has some nice specs.

SWISS MADE, RONDA 515 SWISS QUARTZ MOVEMENT W/CALENDAR
CASE: AEROSPACE-GRADE 316L STAINLESS STEEL MATTE PVD BLACK
BAND: BLACK ITALIAN RUBBER (whatever that is…)
thumbnail.asp.jpeg
thumbnail-1.asp.jpeg

I love the “0” in place of “10.” so ownable for them.

D.

They obviously mean this.

:unamused:

Definitely, a pretty small thing, but very cool…

Nice Michael!

Funny story, I actually just purchased an AR77 myself in the gunmetal + olive color option.

http://www.tsovet.com/SVT-AR77_ep_56.html
Love how the crown was on the left side, so if you’re a left-arm-watch-wearing-individual, when you bend your wrist upward, you won’t get jabbed with a hunk of metal right there in your tendons. Really handsome with a serious, yet subdued industrial aesthetic.

Not being a watch guy at all (I own a Braun, thanks to a contest here at Core77, and a titanium Swiss Military watch, plus a few others), after one day of owning the AR77, I sadly had to contact Tsovet about a more “suitable” replacement option. Even though I loved the look, I couldn’t swing it/pull it off/what have you. It just wasn’t me.

Since I had only put it on once, didn’t wear it out, they were happy to oblige. A week later, the LX73 arrived from Tsovet, in the silver and black option.

http://www.tsovet.com/LX73--LX111010_p_7.html
Since I can’t really take a look at these in person, I went off the online image for the replacement. Much simpler, but keeping that industrial raw look that I was really attracted too. What I didn’t take into account, was that the circular case LX73 was actually 2mm larger than the square case of the AR77 (48mm up to 50mm).

So yeah… I returned it one last time. I’m set receive the smaller RS40 (40mm diameter) this Friday by the end of the day.

http://www.tsovet.com/SVT-RS40_p_125.html

Great customer service. I specifically promised the kind folks over at Tsovet that this was the final exchange. They took it all with good humor. Though I admit, I felt a bit embarrassed that second time. My defense was, “hey, I’m not a watch guy”.

So, Michael… does the AR77 in black look a bit smaller than it actually is? I imagine that black on black scheme looks great in person. I was really, really close to picking it up when I was ordering the AR77… in the end, to choose the color, I think I ended up flipping a coin.

There is no getting around it just being a big hunk of a watch. But, I’ve always liked them at that scale…

Thanks for the photo reference, one thing that really seems to be missing from the Tsovet site (even hard to find other non-official photos from reviews and such). Definitely still a large watch, no doubt. I think the black on black helps, rather than the olive/gunmetal somewhat contrasting against each other visually. But yeah, that looks fantastic.

It is no Bell & Ross, but a little bit easier to wear everyday. Certainly not for everybody. I feel like the trend is going back to smaller timepieces but I’ve liked the oversized ones ever since the 90’s. There were only a couple of brands making large timepieces then.

There is no getting around it just being a big hunk of a watch. But, I’ve always liked them at that scale…

Michael, that tsovet fits/looks superb on the wrist…
there are very nice objects around in that photo…like the cartoon stretched to the scale :smiley: & innocent dog…

I am sharing here this Clock… not a watch…
Either way… They are the time keeping device :wink:

I just STUCK to it…worth of sharing it here…

http://www.stelton.com/en/Category/Products/851_Stelton-Time.aspx
www_851_SteltonTime-Clock_590x443.ashx.jpg

Nice.

Reminiscent of the first MOMA watch of 1947 by Nathan George Horwitt

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/31162180[/vimeo]

Here are a few cool watch videos!

“Sealed” watch by Boat.

Balance = TID
tid-watches.jpg