New OLED watch, by Fossil and Texas Instruments

[xevious]

This is rather intriguing... a Meta Watch (http://www.takesontech.com/fossil-and-ti-give-new-details-on-the-meta-watch).

OLED display, not all that far off from Seiko's EPD.
EDIT: Correction, this is a dot matrix LCD. Another watch has OLED display areas.

[abem]

If you're feeling brave, you can pre-order it now:
http://www.metawatch.org/

-abe.

[abem]

If you're feeling brave, you can pre-order it now:
http://www.metawatch.org/

-abe.

[Huertecilla]

This is rather intriguing... a Meta Watch (http://www.takesontech.com/fossil-and-ti-give-new-details-on-the-meta-watch).

OLED display, not all that far off from Seiko's EPD.

The next logical step after the Nano success on the wrsit. 75% of the buyers of the wrist adaptor accessory bought the Nano for it and not the other way around

The display technology is however not very akin to the watch display technology but phone display technology. The difference is power consumption. They OLED such as used will need regular recharging of the battery.

With watches we are accustomed to a battery life of srveral years and just about ´for ever´ for autocharging systems such as kinetic and solar.
Putting it on an external charger every two weeks will take a mental adjustment or simple a different customer base.
The latter seems more likely and is no problem as there is a whole generation of young humans that has grown up with things that need echarging so they will see that as normal.
The traditional watch buyer will object to the ´gadget´ anyway.

[rewolf]

Be aware the the watch pictured above does NOT have an OLED display, but LCD "96x96 Dot Matrix Display - Highly Reflective; easily read in direct sunlight"

Only the analog version has "two 16x80 white OLED displays".

[cheeksterr]

Nice watch and at $199 thats what I call a decent starting price.

Way better value than the Seiko. But not as desirable .

U Pays ur money, u make ur choices

[Huertecilla]

Way better value than the Seiko.

What Seiko? The SBFG, the SBPG or ???

As always; the lower one gets the more value for the buck because of deminishing returns.
Cost versus ´quality´ in a graph give a hyperbolic-like curve that gets near vertical as it nears 100%.
The Casio F-91W is at the moment the to beat value for money

It is a pity that wis-dom has not adopted the SLoP; the Schöön Level of Perfection (Johannes Schöön, 2003) which has a scale from 0 to 10+ reflecting the magnification at which imperfecton of finish/manufacture is visible.
0 is the naked eye, 10x corresponds with the highest level of diamond perfection, meaning 10+ = not visible at 10x = considered perfect.
That would at least add óne objectively comparative factor for one aspect of quality.

[rewolf]

Keep in mind that these watches are not meant to be sold as jewellery - they are development platforms for TI's MSP430 microcontroller and CC25xx bluetooth chips, successor of TI's eZ430-Chronos Developent tool, finally with a decent display and better looks

[LEDluvr]

Very interesting. Even if one does not like this particular watch it is very encouraging that they are making it. Hopefully this is a sign that this kind of watch technology is taking off and we'll be seeing more of it.

[xevious]

Thanks for the clarification, rewolf. I should have realized that the square watch couldn't be OLED because of the power consumption. So it's apparently some form of dot matrix high contrast LCD. Weird how they chose OLED for the small displays in the analog watch. I guess they require you to press a button to view the data.

In any case, the dot matrix display is pretty good. Not as smooth edging as on the Seiko, though.

I'm sure the Seiko will feel like much better quality. And the fact that it is one unit on your wrist with no other dependencies (like a bluetooth connection for data fed by your smart phone) is more appealing to me.