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May 01, 2008
Day & Night
The Day&Night watch by Romain Jerome does everything except tell the time. And by "everything" I mean it tells you whether it is day or night.
With no display for the hours, minutes or seconds the Day&Night offers a new way of measuring time, splitting the universe of time into two fundamentally opposing sections: day versus night. ... An avant-garde approach, that is different and even disturbing.
Yours for only $300k. Or rather, it would be only $300k but they are sold out, a fact I find considerably more disturbing than the watch itself (via Luxist).
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 1, 2008 06:21 AM
Comments
I love it, I need it.
Posted by: The_Campblog at May 1, 2008 07:09 AM
I admit if I was spectacularly wealthy I would also need one.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at May 1, 2008 08:39 AM
You know, for half the price, I'll gladly tell you both whether it's day or night any time you ask.
Posted by: cm at May 1, 2008 08:48 AM
You say this now but I doubt you would consent to being strapped to my wrist!
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at May 1, 2008 10:00 AM
There used to be the Moonwatch, though sadly it's consigned to the Internet Archive now.
Yes Watches let you program in your position and it tells you sunrise, sunset, moon phase, and has a hand showing how far from sunrise-sunset you are now. Used it hiking in Ireland to avoid getting caught in the dark; otherwise it's a great nerd watch.
Martin Braun's EOS watches are mechanical and show sunrise and sunset at a pre-chosen location set at the factory at your request. Would be even more cool if you could alter location yourself, but that would probably up the cost from "out of my league" to "stratospheric."
For simplicity, how about a watch with just an hour hand? More accurate than you'd think at first.
Posted by: JohnAnnArbor at May 1, 2008 02:15 PM
I love the look of these steampunk watches. Unfortunately, my Japanese is somewhat limited and consequently I do not have a clue what they cost.
I am a proud owner of the blue version of this pimp watch (and have a couple for sale to interested parties once I have my web storefront up and running).
For clubbing, performance and all round industrial activities I wear my trusty Nemesis watch.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at May 1, 2008 02:29 PM
Some of those steampunk watches look uncomfortable--if not painful--to wear. But cool.
I've seen LED watched like that, but with different dot-schemes to read them. The harder one, I'd think, is this binary one.
Posted by: JohnAnnArbor at May 1, 2008 02:50 PM
You know, they say there are two kinds of people...
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at May 1, 2008 02:58 PM
I believe you mean 10 kinds of people....