What time is it?

[unfaithfulsfan]

In April the Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome (which last year created a watch made from remnants of the Titanic) introduced the "Day&Night" watch, which unfortunately does not provide a reading of the hour or the minute. Though it retails for about $300,000, it tells only whether it is "day" or "night" (using a complex measurement of the Earth's gravity). CEO Yvan Arpa said studies show that two-thirds of rich people "don't (use) their watch to tell what time it is" anyway. Anyone can buy a watch that tells time, he told a Reuters reporter, but only a "truly discerning customer" can buy one that doesn't. [Wall Street Journal, 4-25-08]

I'm so happy I'm not a "truly discerning" customer....

[Sporg]

I'm right there with you on that one... wow, just... wow...

[stopthekilling77]

cool if you're underground or underwater 24/7

uncool for the other few millions and billions of us that don't

[vicaphit]

This sounds like that $180 lightning detector that I saw on my college's athletics department invoice.

[Tim Burton]

Pics?

[unfaithfulsfan]

Sorry, no pics. Found this on news of the wierd...

[Sovereign]

FAIL.

[DMB2000uk]

wow, that is a lot of money for a watch that doesn't do anything

It best be encrusted with diamonds or something for that much.

Dan

[unfaithfulsfan]

http://www.romainjerome.ch/en/les-inate ... ht-en.aspx

[unfaithfulsfan]

oops
http://www.romainjerome.ch/en/les-inate ... ht-en.aspx
guess there really is a "dark-thirty"

[vicaphit]

That watch looks really cool, but this is a much cooler watch:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/a890/

[stopthekilling77]

cool way to spend $600 :D

as for the day/night watch, i wonder if it only works on Earth?

[vicaphit]

It uses variations in gravity, so I assume it would work anywhere, but probably not as accurately... I guess if you find yourself on mars you would just have to use your eyes to figure out if it is night or day.

[duplo83]

Okay everyone, I'm here to pitch a lucrative new timepiece to all of you. It will not measure the time of the day, week, month or year. Its sole purpose will be to inform it's wearer of their current state of mortality. I call it the Corpse-Watch. Are they alive, or dead? There will be a small sensor in the band that will detect a pulse, as long as a pulse is detected the watch will say something catchy like, "Hey moron, you're alive!" However, when the watch no longer detects a pulse a skull-and-crossbones will appear on the face, indicating the wearer is now deceased. Think of how handy this will be to anyone who stumbles upon a prone body!

"Hmm, here's another vagrant, passed out on my front porch. I'll just roll him off into the bushes out of my wa.....wait a minute, he has a Corpse-Watch on. I'll see how he's doing. Huh, hes dead...Imagine that! Well, that could have been embarrassing! Hey sweetie! I almost rolled a corpse into our bushes! Haha!"

Obviously, this watch will be an item of extreme luxury. It's $1,000,000.00 price point is one that only the most exalted among us will be able to afford.

[martini161]

WELL i have a watch that can tell wether its time or day from light 100000000 miles away and is made up of plasma

[vicaphit]

"Hmm, here's another vagrant, passed out on my front porch. I'll just roll him off into the bushes out of my wa.....wait a minute, he has a Corpse-Watch on. I'll see how he's doing. Huh, hes dead...Imagine that! Well, that could have been embarrassing! Hey sweetie! I almost rolled a corpse into our bushes! Haha!"

Obviously, this watch will be an item of extreme luxury. It's $1,000,000.00 price point is one that only the most exalted among us will be able to afford.


That is one rich vagabond!

[bubba]

Showed this to some others, one pointed out at that price and utter stupidity of function it is no longer a watch, but "art" that can be warn.


















still stupid, give the 300k to the local food bank, at least then you have a tax right off....

[vicaphit]

If you have $300k to spend on a useless watch I am sure you are already donating enough to reach your maximum amount of tax writeoffs.

[aircommando13]

I guess if you were in antarctica it might be useful since they have 6 months of light and 6 months of dark
probably not waterproof though

when i first read the thread I though someone was actually asking what time it was lol