Tokyoflash R75: Steve Austin, Eat Your Heart Out!
Tokyoflash Japan promises “bionic timing” with the release of its new R75 model watch. I’m not sure that I follow that description of it, but I do think that this watch looks cool.
Tokyoflash R75
Coming in 3 choices of colors (black, silver or gold stainless steel) and with either white or blue LEDs, the R75 offers 3 different ways to tell the time. This is facilitated using both the upper and lower display areas on the watch. In the hour-centric mode setting, the watch displays the current hour as a number on the lower display area while showing the approximate number of minutes (rounded to the nearest 5) on the upper display, with each lit LED light representing a 5 minute increment. The second setting, minute-centric mode, utilizes the lower display to show the exact number of minutes in numerical digits, while showing the current hour using LEDs within the upper display area. The third setting, binary mode, uses only the upper display to tell time. The upper row of LEDs within this part of the watch face display the hour in binary (where the furthest LEDs to the right have the values 8, 4, 2 and 1). To tell the current hour, one must then add the lit LEDs (such as 4+2+1 to equal 7 hours). The row of LEDs beneath this is used to display the current minutes (with each individual LED–from left to right–having the value of 32, 16, 8, 4, 2 or 1). As with the hour LEDs, one must add the values of the minute LEDs to tell the current minutes (such as 32+16+2+1=51 minutes after the hour). The watch also includes a “date mode” to tell the current date in months using a combination of the upper set of 12 LEDs and in days by displaying the actual numerical date on the lower set of LEDs.
The Tokyoflash R75 is available from Tokyoflash.com. Price: $235.48 (U.S.).
(Photo source: Tokyoflash.com.)
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