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January 25, 2007
Urwerk 201
Timepieces are supposed to be easy to read so when you come across a watch with an incredibly complex mechanism for telling time, it had better be a looker.
Fortunately, the Urwerk 201 fills that role nicely. Set on an odometer style face, a rotating dial with telescoping minute and hour hands tell time. Turn it over and discover a cool feature that reminds you when to get your oil changed and a record of time from the past 100 years. Don't ask me why any person would need to know that - unless you're the time traveler Cable from X-Men.
Of course innovation and luxury come at a price and we know it's expensive if the price needs to be called in.
via yanko design
another picture after the jump
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Comments
Its a cool innovation that'd be popular with the younger market sector and the main problem everyone would be having is "why get that when i can get one that runs less risks of spilling oil on me?"
Posted by: TC at January 26, 2007 4:24 AM
Sorry, but any watch where you can't actually work out at first glance what the time is supposed to be (is it 7:32, 2:37, 3:18, what?) is a bad watch in my book...
Posted by: yaniboi at January 26, 2007 1:48 PM
yaniboi: Am I supposed to believe that if you had never seen a typical watch before (not digital) that you would instantly know how to read its time? Amazing how easy it is once someone tells you or you read the manual. I am sure this is just as easy once you know what the different parts mean. You could read it just as fast I am sure.
Posted by: qtonic at January 29, 2007 5:08 AM