Category: Watches

Over at Switched On Set, we’ve just featured the Spike Lee and Eric Haze-designed G-Shock watches. But also announced today is a range of Casio G-Shocks inspired by the 1980s to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary – the DW5600CS.

It’s described as a new twist on the original design, offering a typically 80s digital watch in a choice of glossy yellow or black. As you might expect, the watch has water and shock resistance, along with an EL backlight with afterglow, multi-function alarm, 1/100 second stopwatch, countdown timer, flash alert and 12/24 hour formats.

Both land at the end of September, no price as yet.

Find out more at the Casio website

A modern watch with a very classic look – the Michael Graves Witherspoon watch.

Named after a colourful Arts Centre that Graves designed, the watch follows in its footsteps, with a bright enameled-brass dial, leather band with coloured stitching and a stainless steel case.

Choose from orange or blue, both selling for $165 (around £80).

Find out more at the MOMA website

A pop art icon returns once more, this time as the Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup watch set.

You might have to look very closely to see the watch part though, it’s hidden right at the very top of the strap. Indeed, this is all about the strap, featuring that soup can design complete with Warhol signature and for the fashion conscious amongst you, there’s a choice of three colour schemes if you want to match up.

In the sale right now at Plasticland, you can pick up the set of three for $44.10, which is £22.

Find out more at the Plasticland website

The digital watch never went away, it just keeps coming back in different guises – and with the Lleda Tuscan, it has come full circle.

The Tuscan is very much in the spirit of early 70s watches, with a blank screen on your wrist – the time showing when you press a button.Aside from that, this stainless steel watch has ion plating and a mirror-effect lens, along with a choice of red, blue or amber display.

Sold in a presentation box, the Lleda Tuscan sells for £85.

Find out more at the Lleda website

A couple of months back, we featured the Timex 80 digital watch range, which at the time was only available in selected retailers and certainly not in the UK. Well, now they are available in the UK (and the US too I presume), with the mainly plastic bodied watches now being joined by a version in metallic silver and gold.

We did briefly mention the metal versions last time out, but we didn’t have images. Now (as you can see) we have. Both feature all of the basic functions including time, date, stopwatch feature, alarm and the indigo backlight, along with a matching stainless steel strap that stretches to fit your wrist.

Both are sold in an 80s-style neon plastic, slide top box and come with a two-year guarantee. You can pick one up for £55.

Find out more at the Oki-Ni website