JLr7

The JLr7 (which is named after the top row of the watch) comes from the minds of Eri & Eiichi (e35) who theme their designs and artwork on geometric patterns. We love the way this seemingly random pattern of lights is able to tell the time in a futuristic manner.

The whole watch is brushed with a dark gunmetal finish and an all black crystal face. The grid of L-shaped digital segments on the face light up to reveal the time.
When the button is pressed the watch starts a computerized animation sequence with a random pattern of lights & then displays the time. Between 6pm & Midnight the watch animates automatically every 15 mins to give the effect that it is malfunctioning. (this feature can be turned off)

There are 12 lights for the hour, 3 for "quarter past", "half past" & "quarter to" and 14 lights for the times in between. There are also 3 other lights which show the seconds ticking by. The watch face has some subtle dark grey markings which distinguish the borderline between hours, minutes & seconds.

Twelve 5-9 L Versions

Featuring a staggered face & strap - Hours on the right & minutes on the left - It's quite an unusual look and at 26mm wide the watch is actually quite slim & not at all bulky.

The interesting feature of this watch is the number markings are in Kanji - Japanese characters - instead of regular digits. Even if your Japanese isn't up to scratch it's still easy to read the time, hey you might even start to learn the time in Japanese! So if someone asks "How do you tell the time on that?" simply reply in Japanese "Jyu Ni Ji San Jyu Happun desu" (It's 12:38)

Seiko Electronic-Ink Watch for Women

Seiko’s Spectrum electronic -ink watch concept was the world’s first watch from EDP (Electronic Paper Display). And at Baselworld 2007 event Seiko introduces a new Electronic-Ink timepiece. This latest piece is for women.

This new watch designed in bracelet style uses the high contrast e-ink technology. It has two display modes. If you set the watch to its ‘efficiency’ mode, the display is informative and easy to read. And if it is set to ‘mystery’ mode, the panel shows the time in a more imaginative, evocative style.

The display with ultra-high contrast is made of pure black and pure white particles, which is much thinner than any other watch technology.

This ink displayed is encased under a 360-degree continuous sapphire crystal.

Measurements of e-ink watch are:

Diameter:

Outside- 75.3mm

Inside: 61.5mm

Width: 22.0mm

Thickness: 6.9mm

Weight: 80g

Bluetooth Wrist Watch

As a confirmed horological nut, I was fairly skeptical when I heard about the Fossil Abacus Bluetooth watch, the MobileWear. It is a watch that tells you when someone is calling your cellphone. It notifies you by vibrating and showing the name of the caller - if they’re in your address book - right on the watch face. You can also mute and hang-up on callers with the watch.

UPDATE - I screwed up the naming on this one. This is the Abacus model, a subsidiary of Fossil.

This hefty beast is designed to work with Symbian Series 60 devices, mainly Sony Ericsson phones along with some Nokias. I tried it with a Nokia N91 with some degree of success.

*Sony Ericsson Bluetooth enabled mobile phones (K610, K610im, K618, K790, K800, W710, W850, Z610, Z710, P990, W950, and M600)
* Series 60 phones using Symbian OS version 7, 8, and 8.1 (coming soon)

The first thing you’ll notice about this $249 stainless steel watch is that it’s very heavy. It’s not overly large or thick, it’s just a hunk of metal with a unobtrusive screen at 6 o’clock on the face. It has two buttons and a standard crown to set the time.

Black Dice Guru : 好容易阅读的LED手表！

Black Dice 终于打破了 LED 手表界的惯例，推出了一个超容易看懂的 Guru LED 手表。让看时间不再成为想要拥有科技时尚感的朋友的梦靥。

这 只由 Black Dice 推出的 Guru，使用不锈钢材质、50米防水功能、闹铃功能，再配上相当具有科技感的 LED 显示方式。更重要的是它真的很容易看懂。看出来了吗？图中的时间正指在 12:00。嗯，还看不出来吗？将头往左转个九十度看看，Yes，Bingo。

Morse code LED watch tells time even more confusing!

I don’t think it’s a good idea to have morse code to tell time. I think nowadays it’s hard to find anyone that I know personally who can interpret morse code. Of course, the Wikipedia page shows a pretty complete explanation and also the table that shows the code relationship with numbers and letters. As the title says, the watch carries an LED display that tells the time by morse code, either by sound or vision. Meaning it can be set to sound out time in morse code or shows in combination of dashes and dots in morse code on its LED display. If I were the one who wore this watch, perhaps, I’d always need to have the browser on my portable to hook up to Wikipedia web page, in order for me to tell the time. But no worry, the watch has an option for you to set it to a normal LED time that displays time in normal digits that you’re used to instead of the complex morse code.

Steam Punk Watch

This steam punk watch is functional and is guaranteed to attract some attention. It looks like you may only want to wear it for a few hours at a time though…