Watches and Clocks

News, reviews and articles about watches and clocks.

H.Tang is a smartwatch for the fashion conscious woman

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Most smartwatches on the market are chunky, bulky and definitely not feminine. Enter the H.Tang smartwatch, which is currently seeking funding through Pozible.com. This smartwatch looks more like a fancy bracelet than a watch that can track your activity, calorie burn, display the weather and notify you when you have an incoming call or text […]

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Truffol Strap for Pebble smartwatch review

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The Pebble has been one of the original smart watches to kickstart (pun intended) the smart watch revolution.  I backed the KickStarter campaign and have really enjoyed using it for these last couple of years, but boy, is the plastic wristband less than stylish! Luckily, the watchband can be switched out with various bands of your own

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Keep your favorite watches safe and snug in the Obi Watch Roll

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The Obi Watch Roll from TOKYObay is a hand crafted, Italian leather case that can be used to store up to 6 watches of 50mm or less. Made in San Francisco, this case has been designed to hold both wrist watches and pocket watches and then to roll-up for easy transport. With the Obi Watch Roll you can carry your

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Tokyoflash Japan’s new Kisai Vortex displays dual time zones

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Tokyoflash Japan’s latest watch, the Kisai Vortex, has a stainless steel case and band and a concave touchscreen crystal.  Spiraling rings to display the time are “always on”, and you can turn on a backlight by touching the crystal.  The outer two rings display the time for one time zone, and the inner two rings

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Get lost in the Maze of time with this new Tokyoflash Japan watch

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The newest offering from Tokyoflash Japan is the Kisai Maze Wood LCD watch.  These watches have a wood case and leather straps with stainless steel buckles.  The faces can display time in a maze mode (03:39 on the left watch, 05:17 on the right) or in numeric time; they can also show date.  The Maze

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Reactions to Apple’s iPhone 6 and Watch announcements

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You really have to give Apple a lot of credit when it comes to putting on a new product announcement event. They are definitely the masters of hype and showmanship. Even though I say I don’t care about the iPhone anymore, I still get excited just like the rest of the planet to hear about

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Martian Watches Notifier smart watch review

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  Last year, I reviewed the Martian Watches G2G smart watch, and I loved it.  Not only did that watch display information about incoming calls, emails, text messages, and other notifications, it had a Bluetooth speakerphone built in.  I loved the vintage styling of the G2G, and I loved that I could replace the watch

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This new watch from Tokyoflash Japan is Radioactive

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The face of the new Kisai Radioactive watch from Tokyoflash Japan looks like it could be the monitor display on a nuclear reactor.  The lights flash to display the time, and an animation mode will look like a constantly changing status display (can be turned off).  The case and band are made of brushed stainless steel,

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ClockONE is an insanely cool E-ink clock with an equally insane price tag

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The ClockONE from Twelve24 is simple and beautiful. It’s a wall mountable 39.37 x 13.78 inches (1000 x 350 mm) clock that features a digital display that uses E-ink. The clock runs for one year on one CR2450 button battery and mounts to the wall with a magnet. I love the look of it and

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The latest Tokyoflash Japan watch uses its words to tell you the time

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Instead of interesting graphical displays, the latest Tokyoflash watch uses a word matrix to tell you the time or date.  The words needed to display the information flash on the face of the Kisai Kaidoku Wood watch, so you don’t have to learn to decode a pattern to tell the time.  As a matter of

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VTech announces Kidizoom Smartwatch for kids

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The Kidizoom is a kid-durable smartwatch that has been designed to withstand drops and bumps as well as being splash proof and sweat proof. It is powered by a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 2 weeks. In addition to normal watch functions (alarm, timer and stopwatch), the Kidizoom also features 50+ clock displays, a 1.4 inch

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Tokyoflash Japan introduces the Kisai Sequence watch

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The new Kisai Sequence watch from Tokyoflash Japan features a stainless steel case, leather strap, custom-made curved acrylic lens, “sub-surface digital tube LEDs, and an alternating pattern of raised cubes.”  The time can be displayed in 12- or 24-hour format and in either regular or cryptic mode.  It also has an alarm function and six animations.

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Samsung Gear Live…WATCH for it!

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Smartwatches have been a dream of technophiles since the Dick Tracy days.  While they have not yet reached the dream of the standalone phone, what they can do while partnered with a smartphone far outstrips anything Tracy’s wrist gear aspired to.  Hot on the heels of Samsung’s Tizen-powered Gear 2 watch, the Gear Live watch

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Withings Activité hides an activity tracker in a classy watch

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I’m a big fan of Withings health and fitness gadgets. I have reviewed their wireless body scale, their wireless blood pressure monitor and their Pulse activity trackers. Their newest fitness gadget is the Activité activity tracking watch which pairs a Swiss-made movement with a fashionable design. It features a stainless steel case and a fine

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