What is the coolest watch you can find?
 

Before I get your hopes up this watch no longer exists and it was a failure so it probably won't come back.

The bumps raise and lower, allowing you to tell time through touch. In a meeting or conversation you'll know the time without appearing rude.

http://www.worldtempus.com/images/montres/secret.jpg



Here's how it worked:

http://zorigami.free.fr/odd_watches/...tw_explain.jpg

http://www.worldtempus.com/wt/1/232/

It was either called the "Secret Eye" watch or the "See Touch Watch" depending on the translation.



Ok, beat that!

I want one :(

this looks cool http://www.wristdreams.com/images/ja...ed_watch_2.jpg

http://www.hmss.com/qbranch/GElaser.jpg

Super cool watch with laser action!




























https://store.station.sony.com/image...ch_closeup.gif

jajaja

All of these are awesome but again not for sale:

http://www.mr-jones.org/watches/graphics/tv_watch.jpg

http://www.mr-jones.org/watches/

http://ship-of-fools.com/Gadgets/Clo...wristwatch.jpg

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1) http://www.painetworks.com/photos/fj/fj0166.JPG comes with boy


2) i know the other ones looks cool, but this one seems to be ahead of today's technology, and can tell you what STDs you have http://mud.mm-a8.yimg.com/image/2945217979

I am a total watch aficionado. I am obsessed with mechanical watches. The hand made precision that goes into some of these things is incredible. I spend thousands per year collecting classics, but this is the one I yearn for, the Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon.

Before I show you the most complicated watch ever made, let me describe it's majesty. Regular mechanical wristwatches are only accurate to +-5 seconds a day. Believe it or not this is caused by gravity; as you wear the watch on your wrist the mechanical parts to the left of the face are slightly closer to the center of the earth than those on the right (as you are walking). This slight disturbance is magnified by the extreme precision in the tiny watch parts.

In steps an invention of pure genius, the Tourbillon. One of the few things the French have done right, the tourbillon was invented in 1795 to counteract the effects of gravity. In a tourbillon the watch escapement is encased in a rotating frame. As the frame rotates 360 degrees all parts of it get the same pull of gravity and it is this free space rotation that is the heart of this watch.

But Patek Philippe took it to the extremes in this mechanical piece of pure wrist sex. This watch has two sides. One with the time, calendar, moon phases etc. About what you would expect. But you turn it over and you have a full map of the sky accurate to the second that is all controlled mechanically. There isn't one microchip in this wonder. It is the most amazing watch ever made.

The problem? It's so incredibly hard to make only two are made per year and the waiting list goes to about 2040. That and the million dollar price tag.

http://www.notacult.com/forums/attac...achmentid=1352

in other words, if you see some french guy with that watch, mug him.

Does the face stay still when the frame spins?



Here's another cool one:

http://www.watch-colle.com/watch/Oti...c/oti001c1.jpg

It's from a german watchmaker who is obsessed with ball bearings.

http://www.otium-uhren.de/

The frame doesn't spin. There is a small box inside suspended like a gyroscope and it rotates exactly once a minute.

Requesting pics, I want to see this watch collection.

Sure, it's kind of embarassing actually. My collection is in Vancouver, but here are some of the ones I've bought over the past two years. These aren't my pictures but the watches are pretty similar. My WW2 era watches are in much better condition than these though.

An Omega Seamaster Professional
http://www.watchgid.ru/img/model/big/259_1.jpg

A Vostak Russian Kremlin
http://www.russarmy.com/images/pictu...OP_50036_4.jpg

An Omega WW2 officer's watch from 1945
http://writetime.us/ww2.omegathin14kl.jpg

A 1957 Bulova
http://www.uhrennet.com/img/00/00/18/00001861.jpg

And the current prize of my collection, a Trias Tourbillon. Mine is used though.
http://www.longislandwatch.com/image...rias_50911.jpg

it's communist time LoveOurLordLoveOurLordLoveOurLord

this is a pretty cool watch:
http://www.ccsn.nevada.edu/planetarium/Images/sun.jpg

FOR YE ARE DRUNK ON TIME

Do you wear these watches Rancar or just watch them?

hay what time is it

I wear all of them. Some of them get worn very rarely, but I bust them all out on occasion.

The Volstok is my current "beater" watch, for everyday use. It's only about $200, so it's not very expensive. Heck some citizen's cost that much.

I'm not big on gold, but I like the Tourbillon. It's what I'd hope a million dollar watch would look like, classy, useful, but still cool - it has a star chart! I'm sure Rolex makes a million dollar watch, but only because they weigh it down with gaudy diamonds.

why does rancar win EVERY nerdfite?

who the kiss has a WRISTWATCH COLLECTION? geeze.

<3

Hey! Collecting wristwatches is suprisingly popular. The bidding wars on eBay can get pretty intense.

Drop by building 41 at MS sometime and I can bring some of them to work.

Rancar do you have a picture of you in rl ?

I dont think i saw one yet.

Those watches are good investments they cant go down only up im sure

He looks kinda like conan o'brian except he is prolly shorter, fatter, and dark haired with a big brown beard.

How do you know his height? I don't think we've seen a full body pic. I say he looks like a canadian santa


I wish he'd use TS more

Sounds like an eq dwarf !!!!

I'm actually 6'4, but yes I do look like a fat Conan O'Brien.

Considering how ugly Conan is to start with, that should tell you something =)

I was thinking more
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ex-luthor1.jpg


Edit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVUO...elated&search=

kiss muggles am i right

you're as tall as i amm aybe weare brothers??

rancar looks nothing like conan obrien, i saw the license picture once, and he looked 38 years old, and more like zach galifianakis than anyone else if i recall.

http://www.brianmpalmer.com/zach1.jpg

http://images.zap2it.com/20031209/za...alling_240.jpg

no no no
i'd say the top part of his fase (anything from the nose up) looks just like conan o'brian you twit

am i still drunk?

http://www.skyaid.org/images/samsung_watch.jpg

hoo hah

Time system too complicated. Woulda been better if it just pointed to quarters of the clock each for mins and hours

more like a watch for blind people am iright

THE NEATONESS IS IN THE "HEY I CAN READ MY WATCH BUT YOU WOULDNT EVEN KNOW ITS A WATCH!" PART =)


Makes you feel like a top secret agent kid working to catch doctor destructo and his evil minions!!

why didnt it just point to the time like normal watches am i rite???

cuz the point is to be able to tell the time without looking down at the watch and being rude =D