Spec Me: A ~£100 Everyday Watch Thats a bit Quirky

PardonTheWait · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:28

Skeeter said:
http://uk.nixonnow.com/watches/elite/the-magnacon-A079.html

WANT

But its £520....

It's pretty rad, but there mostly way cheaper than that. I think mine were £70 and £80

V4NT0M · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:29

Skeeter said:
Anyone know where u can get the Tokyo Flash watches in the UK, or better still, see some, as watches always look completely different in real life.

Closest thing I could find to looking at it was here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pTU_Z19-bao

Tokyoflash sell them internationally on that site too

uv · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:31

Skeeter said:
Anyone know where u can get the Tokyo Flash watches in the UK, or better still, see some, as watches always look completely different in real life.

iirc, cyberdog sells them. I'd check, but my dns is fubar :/

Skeeter · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:52

Forgot about Diesel.

This looks mean!

EDIT: And it matches my Sig

Cr0fty · 28 Oct 2008 at 00:02

Skyfall said:
(img)Tokyoflash Rogue:

Or any of their watches: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/

Those are quality

Skeeter · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:03

I still cant decide wether I want a watch that requires me to 'learn' how to read it....

Freakitchen · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:10

Pea0n said:
http://www.creativewatch.co.uk/fossil-watches/big-tic-watch-jr8123-large.jpg

VERY similar to that, infact identical with the only changes are that the numbers are gothic and the studs are rivets type, not slit-screwed. Love it to bits. The numbers write on the screen as if you were writing them with a pen too

- Pea0n

From your description, sounds like we've both got one of those! I own quite a few 'every day' watches - none of them particularly expensive - and I think this one is by far the best looking. Quirky without being silly.

http://www.hotwatches.co.uk/images/productimages/JR8712.jpg

Cosimo · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:19

This should do:

hyper_piper45 · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:22

What about ToyWatch? The are a bit quirky and you can tell the time easily on them.

Mobius 1 · 28 Oct 2008 at 12:32

the tokyoflah negative positive watch thing on the first page is quite cool. looks weird at first glance, then you look again and realise you can read the time

ps3ud0 · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:05

-Tauren- said:
the tokyoflah negative positive watch thing on the first page is quite cool. looks weird at first glance, then you look again and realise you can read the time

Ive decided to order that

. Just need to find a UK stockist as I cba with all the extra charges...

Weirdly I cant decide if the black looks better than silver - wish you could see them in RL

ps3ud0 :cool:

Envoy · 28 Oct 2008 at 13:17

Only thing that's put me off Tokyo Flash watches is that you need to press a button to read them.

Skeeter · 28 Oct 2008 at 15:09

Envoy said:
Only thing that's put me off Tokyo Flash watches is that you need to press a button to read them.

They are more functional jewellery than wtches

Adsta · 28 Oct 2008 at 15:11

Skyfall said:
Tokyoflash Rogue:

Or any of their watches: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/

dammit beat me to it.

They have great watches. I own a rogue very very nice watch.

Just a word of warning though you will most likely be hit by customs tho

Adsta · 28 Oct 2008 at 15:13

The rogue watch you can still read with or without the light on.
Granted some of the other watches require a button push but who cares is pressing a button really that hard to do ?

Luke · 28 Oct 2008 at 16:10

A pretty poor first hand account of the Rogue from a Gizmodo commentator:

I got mine a few days ago. Thought mine was defective too, but indeed there are supposed to be three LEDs, making the lighting look uneven, and in my opinion, cheap.

It's nice that you can see it without the LEDs in daylight. If it's dark, you hit the button. Disappointingly, that same button also lets you know what time the alarm is set to, so every time I want to see what time it is, I've got to hit a second button to take it back from Alarm to Current time.

Totally lame. Really disappointing. Sending it back.

Mobius 1 · 28 Oct 2008 at 16:12

ps3ud0 said:
Ive decided to order that . Just need to find a UK stockist as I cba with all the extra charges...

Weirdly I cant decide if the black looks better than silver - wish you could see them in RL

ps3ud0

please post some pics when you do get it

go for silver IMO.

Skeeter · 28 Oct 2008 at 19:10

No, definately black.

That watch has kinda lost its appeal now ive figured out how to read it lol.

V4NT0M · 28 Oct 2008 at 19:15

Adsta said:
dammit beat me to it.

They have great watches. I own a rogue very very nice watch.

Just a word of warning though you will most likely be hit by customs tho

I've pondered getting a rogue, have you and pictures of it, website photoshoots seem quite misleading. How much did customs sting you for? And can you confirm what the gizmodo review said about the light button being the same as the alarm time button?

Dazzy_G · 28 Oct 2008 at 19:18

Skeeter said:
Having a binary watch showing the time in an array of lights = WIN

Having to spend 10 mins decyphering your watch to tell the time, and then trying to explain to the few people who havent got bored and walked away that its actually really cool, but looking like a fool = Less Win.

If it takes you 10 minutes to read a binary watch, your doing it wrong.

but i do like the watches you linked, very nice