Originally published at: Minimalist and striking Bell & Ross watch's dial looks like a radar screen | Boing Boing
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$4300 for something that looks like a plastic watch you’d get at Spencer Gifts.
Pass.
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“Minimalist” eh? whut_eye_want: eInk (so always visible and recharge ≤ once/week), four big numbers HH/MM so they can be appreciated with the briefest of glances. that’s it; no steps, no heart, no email: so maybe $23.95. (“yeah… dream_on you old @#$!”) com’on Casio!
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If my understanding of the intended information design is correct, we are to to read this watch as having the inner ring representing the minutes and the outer ring representing the hours. However, this defies the long-established mental model for timepieces wherein the short hand is the hours and the long hand is the minutes.
Obviously the minutes / fighter plane should be on the outer ring and the hours / passenger plane should be on the inner ring. As a bonus the fighter plane would end up with a higher linear velocity.
Anyway, for $4300, am disappoint.
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Came to say similar. I expect the larger/outer plane to do the minutes and the smaller inner one the hours. But the dials are marked with minutes on the inner dial and hours on the outer.
For this price I’d expect them to get it right and give some consideration to not almost deliberately setting out to make it unusable without significant brain rewiring.
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For this price, I expect them to use either P7 yellow/green or P13 orange phosphor colors instead of bright red.
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Couldn’t this be done with a face app on any smart watch, and still be under that price tag?
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You can buy a genuine Omega Speedmaster Moon watch, be assured it will keep its value and last a lifetime - and still have change for less than this costs.
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I’d have a second hand as the UFO…
Beholder, methinks something may be wrong with your eye.
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Ugly watch. No style. Looks like a toy.
But is it tactical radar?
If my job was to program the processor in that watch, I would totally build in an easter egg graphic or game mode. Fingers crossed.
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I’d hope that for that price it had fancy hand-made tick-tocky innards even though it looks so plasticky on the outside.
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