Icon Watch

Here’s a neat pixelated looking watch I was pointed to in the Museum of Modern Art’s web store. It’s a shame I don’t wear a watch because that would be a fun one to throw in every once in a while and it’s pretty inexpensive. I’m not really capable of wearing a watch regularly. I fiddle with them constantly and if I sit down anywhere I take them off. I’ve left watches (and rings and my office ID badge, etc.) pretty much everywhere. It’s too bad too because, though the phone serves as a time piece more effectively, watches are essentially art you can wear. The extremely complex ones with a tourbillon and exotic materials are great and sometimes cool modern technology finds its way into them as well. For example, the below is a watch produced by Seiko which has a display that runs around the whole watch that uses electronic ink to write out the time. Sadly it doesn’t appear that they actually put the thing out for sale. I’ve seen comments to the effect that it would be sold for about $2000 but the only places I see them mentioned are in copies of the press releases from 2007 and the various blogs which report on that stuff.