Yes, this really is an old school boombox for your wrist – the Flud Boombox watch to be precise.
Take your pick from a silver or gun metal finish, both with the same detailing – speakers, radio dial and aerial, as well as a digital read out for the time. Sadly all of its is purely for decoration (except the time of course), but no-one will know that (if you don’t let on).
If you want one, they’re available online, priced at $90.
Regular readers might recall the limited edition Furni x Cool Hunting watch from last year, matching up cool retro style with a ridiculously low price point. Well, Furni is back again, this time with the Furni x Raised By Wolves limited edition 80s-style digital watch.
Equally as stylish, this collaboration with Canadian label RbW (Raised By Wolves) has produced a water-resistant digital timepiece in black, red or cyan, offering up functionality like an hourly chime, 12/24-hour display and a dual time mode, not to mention a phone book, stopwatch, countdown and multiple alarms.
There’s also a custom engraving and if you go for the combo set (red and cyan watches), you also get a 3D book thrown in absolutely free. But here’s the best part – it retails for a ridiculously cheap $28, with the combo set coming in at $58. Shipping is worldwide too – for the equivalent of just £2.50 for up to two watches.
Not just a pocket watch, the Mondaine Travel Pocket Alarm Watch will even get you up in the morning.
This isn’t the first Mondaine we’ve featured here, regular readers will already know that this is modelled on the Swiss Railway Station Clock, first designed back in the 1940s by Hans Hilfiker. This particular version offers old school timekeeping as a pocket watch (with snake chain) or as an alarm clock, using the integrated stand. Aside from that, it has a quartz movement, glass and steel construction and a red leather pouch to keep it safe.
Yours for £135.
Remember the Toy Watch Fluo range we featured some time back? It was a take on the classic 1950s Rolex Submariner, famous for featuring in 11 of the James Bond movies. Well, there’s another watch treading the same ground – the Nixon 51-30 watch range.
Very much in the style of the classic Submariner, the watches are available in a number of colours and finishes, all with a a custom three hand Swiss movement, easy to read tide sub-dial and chrono dials, not to mention a hardened mineral crystal face and stainless steel strap.
Not as cheap as the Toy Watch, but cheaper than the real thing at £320.
Not just a watch, the R2-D2 Whizzwatch doubles up as a radio-controlled robot.
Yes, everyone’s favourite movie droid is back, this time as a Star Wars-themed watch – just unclip R2-D2 from the watch, place it on your desk, then use the digital watch’s buttons to move your little friend around.
The set comes complete with both batteries and spare batteries, as well as a screwdriver to slot them in, selling for £19.95.
James Bond villains are every bit as famous as the man himself – and now they’re all being rightfully celebrated with the launch of the Swatch James Bond Villain watch collection.
Yes, all of them – from Dr No (in Dr No) through to the next villain in line, Dominic Greene in the forthcoming Quantum of Solace – each one individually made to fit the relevant man (or woman) of crime, as well as featuring the 007 logo. Browse the full selection for your favourite, but we’ve picked out the two above.
The first one is based around Hugo Drax in Moonraker, a sophisticated watch for a sophisticated man, packing water-resistance, date and time into a stainless steel case for £125. The second (if you haven’t guessed) is Oddjob, Goldfinger’s chief henchman, offering up a water-resistant chronograph in gold and brown stainless steel for £120.
Check out the full range at the site – prices vary considerably.
Find out more at the Swatch website
