Seiko unveiled these incredible watch bracelets to show off the power of what E Ink will provide to watches in the near future. A female and male version was produced. The watches are just 6.9mm thick, and weigh just shy of 3 ounces. The demand for the watch resulted in a limited production of about 1000 priced at a incredible $5,000 USD (and above). Very few of these watches ever made it to the US.
Seiko has been dabbling in the E Ink watch concept for a while now, showing us a prototypes in late 2005. But now this one’s for real, shipping later this year for $2000.
E Ink is incredibly battery friendly because it only uses power when it redraws itself. There is no need for back-lighting or constant energy consumption. You can have it set to redraw only on each minute, which extends the battery life several years. The Seiko Spectrum is essentially an interesting concept watch in production form. It is beautiful, eye catching, and unexpected. The numbers are drawn in a fanciful cursive writing that takes some getting used to. The idea is not legibility, but rather a presentation of what e-paper, and will continue to offer innovative watch makers such as Seiko.
I like the french watch better than this one
This is a great looking watch. We should have more “wearable” e-paper applications.