Kairos Smartwatch Blends Mechanical Watch With Technology
The Kairos smartwatch announced recently combines the best of both worlds. A smart watch, and a competent mechanical watch. Smartwatches, as we've seen before, are hard to make well.One of the arguments against smartwatches?has been, "mechanical watch companies have been doing this for over 100 years, and you aren't going to wipe that out with a pretty LCD, quartz crisis notwithstanding."As an watches-dealer exclusive, we're able to share with you a new model of Kairos watch that you won't see anywhere else. The SSW 158 in all black finish. Sam Yang, Founder and Managing Director of Kairos Watches told us that this model and finish was in high demand. The SSW 158 is equipped with a Swiss movement.Target DemographicYang says, "I just wanted to create a smart watch for the 'non-techies' of the world who want to get smart watch functions." Kairos' first release is a watch that combines a smart watch operating system (Android Wear (which we covered here) or a possibly a custom-made Kairos

HourTime Show Watch Podcast Episode 65
We talk about the Land Shark! I mean Landship by Azimuth, and whether Debaufre watches are a good value. All that and more on the latest HourTime Show episode.Listen to the HourTime Show watch podcast episode 65 here.

Branding In The Digital Age: Difficult When The World Is Your Community
Choosing a name for a business or logo these days is very difficult. In fact, coming up with good brandable names has always been difficult. One needs to come up with a strong term which is suggestive of the product or service without being too limiting. The process is fulfilling, but more tedious that it seems.Take one of the strongest business names to date: International Business Machines, or IBM. This company started making type writers and now makes the most complex of business computer systems. A name that was as relevant 100 years ago as it is today. Remarkable really. Back then you had to worry about trademarking a name, along with consumer receptivity. Today you need to worry about domain name availability and a much more saturated landscape of taken or generic names.The best branding these days comes from unique uses of existing words, or modifications of existing words. The tech and internet world has brought forth the greatest ingenuity in name branding in the last 10 years

Swatch Sistem51 Officially Available In The United States (At New York City & San Francisco Pop-Up Stores)
At Baselworld 2013 we gave you an exclusive hands-on look at the Swatch Sistem51, the 51-component mechanical watch completely assembled by machine. Since then, we have been asked regularly "when will I be able to buy one?" Well, today your wait is over (kind of). The Sistem51 is officially launching in the United States today with a pop-up shop at Swatch's Times Square store in New York City, with a second location appearing in San Francisco later this month. Here are all the details about how to get your hands on this $150 Swiss-made marvel. 2 OF 4 Before we get into where you can buy one, here's a quick refresher on the Sistem51. As the name suggests, it has only 51 components including the mechanical movement. Everything is held together by a single central screw and the entire package is put together by machine �C even the balance is regulated by machine. The movement is made of an anti-magnetic alloy called ARCAP, has 19 jewels, and boasts a 90 hour power reserve. Pl

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Had my eye on this for a little while, Was back and forth between the 15400 and 15300, I like the bigger size and i don't think it wears to big like a lot of people do. Anyways i am loving this watch and its a nice change up to my collection.