MetaFilter posts tagged with watches

R2D2 is funny, he is cute, and he is a fine fine actor

Item — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:21:21 -0800

Raw footage from 1982 of Bill Murray doing takes for "Wired In," a never aired series on modern technological trends and innovations: "People have hands - I think that watches should have hands." Raw footage of Bill Murray and his brother Brian Doyle-Murray at the 1976 Superbowl: Bill pretends to be a goofy Cowboys fan while Brian interviews him, confusing some fans. Videos are in Java but switchable to Quicktime.

"Regulate me..."

Joe Beese — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:14:08 -0800

Watch porn. (sfw) Hard cock.

future past

nickyskye — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:44:27 -0800

Haruo Suekichi invents extraordinary steampunk watches for men and women, each one unique, sometimes with a story attached, a work of art, given a name like Rabbit or Fly Me to the Moon. Haruo Suekichi's website is, at the present, only in Japanese.

Clock Evolution Model

Stunt — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:01:03 -0800

Natural selection and evolution in clocks(youtube) - Video of the details and results of a program written to model the evolution of clocks (if they were alive). It seems that it was done to disprove a strawman argument used to argue in favor of creationism by some (an argument I hadn't personally heard used before). Found here, and explained in more detail than I can offer.

the art of keeping time

nickyskye — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:22:02 -0800

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A Blog to Watch

jonson — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:01:54 -0800

Watchismo is a blog dedicated to portable timepieces, spotlighting the spectacularly beautiful (and spectacularly expensive), among the rare handcrafted artifacts such as this watch made from wood, or this one made from bone. [Via]

Why make it simple when it can be complicated?

Rhomboid — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:06:07 -0800

JJ Casalonga's Gallery of Odd Watches contains a number of rare and esoteric designs. Some are conventional but for being nearly transparent or made of wood, while others are truly bizarre and impractical. Is this what the timecube guy wears? Don't miss the Bolshevik counter-clockwise design.

Watchmaking is a hobby?

caddis — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:48:06 -0800

Making a watch by hand. In these days of “fast” and “convenient” I decided to commence a work of “painstaking” and “craftsmanship”, making my own wristwatch. I have had the idea for a certain arrangement of the watch dial, as on the image at the right, for a while now. My investigations into available movements showed that no production movement would give me this layout. After a long period of indecision and wondering what I was really getting myself into I decided to make my own movement, followed by the case and dial.

Helping you calculate how much lunch money you've lost since 1972

bigtimes — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:22:13 -0800

The Museum of Nerd Watches have some completely awesome watches. Take for example This watch with a built-in space-invaders type game. How about one that generates lotto numbers? What's the boiling point of that liquid? Check it with your directional temperature gauge watch!

The Future of time

dhruva — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:28:20 -0800

The Future of time "Designers from more than 72 countries explored and visualized personal and portable timekeeping 150 years into the future" (via Gravity Lens)

The Clock is Ticking

falconred — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:12:47 -0800

The Watchmaker Crisis - While mechanical and high-end quartz watches are becoming more and more popular in the U.S., over half of its watchmakers are nearing retirement age. The nation's 10 watchmaking schools just cannot attract enough apprentices, even though tuition is cheap or free.

Watches through time.

o2b — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:53:18 -0800

Cool watches through history. A series of profiles on important watches in the history of the electronic watch. From one regulated by a tuning fork, to the once-omnipresent Swatch.

Microsoft behind the times?

busbyism — Thu, 09 Jan 2003 10:03:01 -0800

Is Bill Gates behind the times? (NYT link - reg req'd) Microsoft today introduced designs for "a new class of watch" which can "provide weather information, text messages and other data." The simplest versions "will cost less than $150," the story says.

But Timex currently offers its own, cheaper version: the Internet Messenger Watch for only US$50, and a year's free service, for almost the same features.

Is Microsoft actually behind the times with their 'innovation'? Is this embarrassing for the software giant?

theplayethic — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 04:36:45 -0800

For Paranoid Parents everywhere. A global satellite positioning wristwatch, in happy-happy day-glo colours, that you can security-clamp onto your kid's wrist. Then, at your office terminal, you can find out exactlywhere they are. Love the 911 button. How about actually playing with your kids, rather than launching them out into the urban wilderness, on a wireless tether? "Latch-key" takes on a whole new dimension.

werty — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 06:48:14 -0800

Die, capitalist scum! (But can I have a G-shock first?) In his recent television broadcast, Osama bin Laden appears to be wearing a Timex wristwatch.

physics — Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:49:24 -0800

The next must have tech gadget is on its way this fall. Sure it probably weighs 50 pounds, but it's just too damn sweet not to get.

mathowie — Sat, 08 Jan 2000 17:40:52 -0800

(as seen on /.) A new wristwatch from Casio that doubles as a MP3 player. Seems goofy at first, but I'd love to have something that small to listen to music while running. It beats a walkman or Rio any day in terms of size, why carry one of those when you can have tunes on your wrist? (now if I just hook up some speakers in a baseball cap :)