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Tokyoflash Releases Kisai Stencil Watch

By David Ponce on 02/21/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Another week, another watch from the fine folks at TokyoFlash. The Kisai Stencil is the 5th watch to hit production that was submitted by a fan to their design blog and became reality (one we covered is Optical Illusion watch). Telling the time in this one is fairly easy, especially once you’ve realized that it’s simply displayed, digitally. The only thing is, the digits are somewhat distorted, one per quadrant. Looking at the above picture should clear things up. The strap and casing come in black or white while the LCD background has 5 colour options. Currently (and for the next 45 hours, it’s $99. After that it goes up to $139.

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Tron-Like Watch Up On Tokyoflash’s Design Blog

By David Ponce on 02/15/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Tokyoflash’s design blog is where a lot of user-submitted designs go from concept to reality. One example is the Optical Illusion watch we posted about a while back. And being discussed right now is the above V-BL47, which not only looks cool sporting a Tron-inspired design, but happens to be ridiculously easy to read once you know how. No solving of puzzles (like the Sudoku watch). The lines on the display are simple regular digits, only distorted radially onto polar coordinates, each filling a quarter circle. You read the time from the bottom quadrant in a clockwise fashion. So the time on the picture above reads “03:59″. After a little bit of practice you’ll be able to read them at a glance.

Just hit the jump for a bunch more pictures. You’ll see how simple it is and there will also be links so you can harass the fine folk at Tokyoflash into making this asap.

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The Sudoku Watch Can Never Give You The Right Time

By David Ponce on 01/30/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

The above watch is a concept over at Tokyoflash, and like some previous such concepts, it might one day make it to market. This one however seems to one-up all of the Japanese company’s designs in terms of unreadability. See, to tell the time, you actually have to solve a Sudoku puzzle: each missing digit is the time. So by the time you’ve solved it, it won’t even be the time it was when you started trying. We’re not sure at this point how they plan to deal with this, or even how long it can take to solve a Sudoku puzzle because numbers scare us. But you can head over to their design blog and give you input as it might actually affect whether and how the watch is developed.

[ Sudoku Watch Design Blog ] VIA [ Chip Chick ]

TokyoFlash Releases Optical Illusion Watch

By David Ponce on 01/25/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Back in September on 2010, our favorite watchmaker put a concept up on their design blog. Fast forward 16 months and here it is in the market. It’s called the Optical Illusion watch and is inspired of course by any of these illusions that you see in print or online from time to time. You can train your eyes to see the time in puzzle mode (I tried, it works, but it’s hard) or you can press one of the four hotzones on the touchscreen display to reveal what the time is. There’s also a mode that cycles between puzzle and time mode every 20 seconds. This is meant to attract attention and get conversations started; this has sort of always been the point of a Tokyoflash watch. This one, like the others, doesn’t disappoint.

It’s $179 and for the next 33 hours, shipping is free.

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We’re Giving Away A Watch From Tokyoflash; Any Watch

By David Ponce on 12/12/11 • 50 Comments

By David Ponce

It’s the Holidays, and this means yet another giveaway. This time the contest is open to the world, and better yet, isn’t confined to any one product from our good friends at Tokyoflash. Instead, you can go to their website and pick any watch (1) from their current lineup. If you win, this is what will be shipped to you.

In the widget below, you’ll see all the ways in which you can enter. So best of luck to you all!

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Ziiiro Celeste Is A Good Looking Watch

By David Ponce on 11/09/11 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

We’re aware that watches as a time-telling device are pretty much finished. But they carry on as one of the few acceptable bits of male adornments left. We happen to have a soft spot for a few manufactures like Tokyoflash and Nooka. Well, you can add Ziiiro (with three “i”s) to that list. Their latest offering, the Celeste, tells the time elegantly by featuring rotating bands of colored, semi-transparent material. When different layers superpose, the colors change: gray and blue on the Mono models, and green and blue on the Colored models. You’ll get a better idea by watching the video below. They come in matte-finished stainless steel casings in chrome, gunmetal or black with matching bands. Available for pre-order now for €149 ($205), they’ll start shipping November 18.

ZIIIRO Celeste ( gunmetal / mono ) from ZIIIRO on Vimeo.

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TAG Heuer’s Mikrotimer Chronograph Concept Measures To 1/1000th Of A Second

By Andrew Liszewski on 09/27/11 • 1 Comment

TAG Heuer Mikrotimer Chronograph Concept (Image courtesy Hodinkee)
By Andrew Liszewski

As far as concept watches go, TAG Heuer’s new Mikrotimer doesn’t look like something from the distant future. Or even some crazy LED-enhanced lightstravaganza from the likes of TokyoFlash. It might even look a little boring to some of you, until you see it in action. The Mikrotimer is a chronograph designed to measure down to 1/1000th of a second. To do this, the watch’s caliber—or its internal movements—run at 500 rotations per second, or 500Hz. That equates to 3.6 million beats per hour, and as you can see in the video embedded below, when operating as a stopwatch the sweep hand is moving so fast you can barely see it in motion.

At this point the Mikrotimer isn’t quite ready to leave TAG’s R&D department just yet. But as Hodinkee points out, it’s important for any company to foster this kind of development and innovation in their field, to push their industry ahead. Also, for anyone who’s still a fan of analog watch technology, seeing it in action is pretty amazing.

[ Hodinkee - Exclusive Hands-On ] VIA [ TechCrunch ]

Tokyoflash’s New Kisai Kaidoku Word-Based Watch Requires Some Level Of Literacy

By Andrew Liszewski on 07/06/11 • Leave a comment!

Tokyoflash Kisai Kaidoku Watch (Image courtesy Tokyoflash)
By Andrew Liszewski

When I was 15 I was just as fascinated with digital watches as Tynan Mayhew probably is. Except that at that age most of my time was spent drooling over display cases, fascinated by Casio’s latest calculator wristpiece. While Tynan was sketching up his own designs and sending them off to the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog. Who liked it so much they put it into production!

Now known as the Kisai Kaidoku, the watch features the numbers one to twelve as words, plus other characters like AM and PM, which flash in sequence letting you read the time. Already confused? You’re probably not alone, it’s a Tokyoflash design after all. So here’s a helpful video that walks you through using the watch and deciphering the time.

The Kisai Kaidoku also features a stainless steel case and buckle, a leather strap in a black or white finish and an electroluminescent backlight which glows blue, green or purple. If you order it in the next 35 hours (at the time of writing) it’s just $119. But after that you’ll have to cough up an extra $20 when it jumps to its regular price of $139.

[ Tokyoflash Kisai Kaidoku ] VIA [ Newlaunches ]

Help Tokyoflash Support The Tsunami Relief Fund

By Andrew Liszewski on 03/22/11 • Leave a comment!

Tokyoflash Relief Sale (Image courtesy Tokyoflash)By Andrew Liszewski

There are countless ways you can support the relief efforts currently underway in Japan, even if you’re on the other side of the planet.

Our good friends at Tokyoflash have decided to help out where they can as well, and for the next two days all of the proceeds from every sale will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society. That includes the entire cost of your order, even shipping. So if you’ve ever been interested in picking yourself up a really slick looking watch, now is definitely as good a time as any to do so.

It has been more than a week since a major earthquake and tsunami struck the north eastern coast of Honshu, Japan. The Japanese government and aid organizations are still struggling to provide basic necessities to hundreds of thousands of displaced residents in the affected areas.

Please consider supporting the emergency relief efforts through Tokyoflash Japan. For the next two days, until March 24th at 5PM Japan time, when you shop at Tokyoflash Japan, 100% of the value of your order including shipping costs will be donated to the disaster relief fund at the Japanese Red Cross.

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