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| Mar 16, 2018 | Tokyoflash has created a radar watch that scans the skies (or your wrist) | Tokyoflash is one of my favorite watchmakers. Unabashedly analog, the watches pay homage to giant robots and old tech, looking like a cross between something that you could find in the hatch in Lost and a Shinjuku fever dream.
Now the compa... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | The Kisai Link Is A Bluetooth Wearable That Hides The Geekiness | As a slave to fashion, I have to look great all the time. But how can I do that when I have to wear so many amazing wearables? You can’t have fashion and electronics. Luckily, Tokyoflash has just the thing. Called the Kisai Link, this is ba... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | A $100 Watch Can Tell If You’ve Had Too Much To Drink | The Japanese watch company Tokyoflash has long turned heads with their odd (if unreadable) designs but in a first they’ve added a breathalyzer to their Kisai watch, thereby allowing you to see just how drunk you’ve gotten at la Jetée.
The v... |
| Jun 22, 2012 | Free Stuff Friday: Win A Kisai Uzumaki Tokyoflash Watch | You know you want this thing: it’s a crazy watch from Tokyoflash called the Kisai Uzumaki and it’s designed to look like some sort of organic sea anemone blossoming on your wrist.
The watch has an electroluminescent backlight which lights u... |
| Feb 21, 2012 | Tokyoflash Releases The (Readable) Kisai Stencil Watch | Thank heavens: finally a Tokyoflash that you can read immediately without depending on a manual or detailed instructions. The Stencil is a fan design that uses for LCD blocks to display the current time and date in a very “bubble letter” so... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | TokyoFlash On Air Touchscreen Watch: For The Space Robot In Your Life | Another day, another Tokyoflash watch. This one, the On Air, has an LCD screen with backlight and you tell time by reading the numerical minutes read-out as it rotates around in place of the hour hand. It is, to be fair, pretty darn ingenio... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | A New Tokyoflash Pocket Watch For The Tubercular Steampunk Dandy In Your Life | Planning a trip around the world in 80 days? Spending some time with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? You’re going to need this $149 Tokyoflash, touchscreen pocket watch that, is as far as I can tell, unreadable by mere mortals.
The w... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Tokyoflash Goes Tron With The Kisai 7 | Another day, another Tokyoflash watch. The Kisai 7 is a clever, fairly cool watch that looks like something Jeff Bridges picked out of his magisterial beard in the last Tron movie. Priced at $99 for the next 30 hours, you, too, can look lik... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Right Angle LCD Watch Tells The Time But Tells It Slant | This TokyoFlash concept watch looks like it might be great for motorcyclists and other folks who have their wrists at eye-level most of the day. The watch has a digital display that is almost unreadable head on but appears, magically, when ... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Tokyoflash Goes Rogue With The Kisai SR2 | Traditionally, Tokyoflash has offered watches without LCD screens. Focusing instead on LEDs, their watches usually lit up and glowed rather than maintained a standard time registration familiar with fans of standard LCDs. But that’s all cha... |
| May 31, 2011 | The Kisai RPM Tokyoflash Watch: Surprisingly Handsome, Made Of Acetate | Acetate is the high-gloss material used to make glasses and other wearables. Tokyoflash has taken the material to interesting new heights with the Kisai RPM, releasing multiple versions of their “handmade” watch for $159. The links, case, a... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | CrunchGear Pre-Valentine's Day Gift Guide: Picking A Cool, Cheap Watch | Rather than talk up another $500,000 watch, here’s a quick and dirty guide for picking up a nice watch for you or your loved one this Valentine’s Day. These watches max out at about $400 and we’ve chosen a few for men (or boys) who fit cert... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | My Week With The iPod Nano Watch | When the first iPod Nano watch straps appeared on the scene in September, I was non-plussed. I’ve seen plenty of wrist-mounted MP3 players, phones, and other junk to understand that anything you wear on your wrist and still have to connect ... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | The Kisai Satellite: More Crazy Tokyoflash Watches | Another day, another crazy Tokyoflash watch. This model, called the Satellite, comes in black and white and separates the hours, minutes, and seconds into zones. It costs $94 and comes with a fancy rubber band. It recharges via USB. The lig... |
| Nov 23, 2010 | Black Friday Week: TokyoFlash Deals | TokyoFlash is offering 50% off selected items and is also offering a 15% discount on all watches with the coupon code “BLACK” from on Nov 25-27.
What can you get? Only some of the wildest watches on the planet earth, my friends. That’s all.... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | The Kisai Round-Trip Watch: USB-Powered Crazy Watch | TokyoFlash has just released the Kisai Round-Trip, a colorful watch with a few tricks up its sleeve. The the $170 watch is USB-powered and you tell the time by reading the inside ring for hours, outer ring for three minute intervals, and tw... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Tokyo Flash's Changing Lanes Watch: Changing the way you view your time | Many times during the day, I look at my watch. It’s a rather easy thing to read. Its functionality and simplicity has remained for years. However, that notion wasn’t good enough for one company, namely Tokyo Flash.
Only Japan would create a... |
| May 18, 2010 | Kisai Round Trip watch: All that's missing is the fob and aluminum top hat | There’s an old O. Henry story, The Gift of the Kisai that recounts a tale of a young man who sells his Kisai Round Trip LED pocketwatch to buy his wife a hairbrush and his wife cuts and sells her hair to buy her husband a pocketwatch chain.... |
| Mar 23, 2010 | TokyoFlash Escape C: Make Kisai Kisai with me! | Yo, what’s up. You need to do your Skyping and your phoning and your music? Yeah? I got something for you. Come over here. Look at this. This is the TokyoFlash Escape C Kisai, a little Bluetooth thinger that connects to almost any device an... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | Another Hourtime Episode | http://ui.mevio.com/widgets/mwm/MevioWM.swf?r=35870
In this episode we talk about watch repair tips and some classic watch legends. Enjoy!
Mentioned this episode:
Chad the Watch Guy
Otto Frei watch repair
Tokyoflash |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Tokyoflash shows off concept devices from the far future | Our buds at Tokyoflash are running a concept contest and asking designers to send in their best renders. To date they’ve had some pretty interesting ideas like this odd-world one called the Time to Streamline:
The organically shaped case bl... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | Contest: win a Tokyoflash watch | Tokyoflash and CrunchGear are teaming up for a really cool contest, giving you a chance to win one of the most unique wristwatches on the market today. Which watch are you going to win? Well, that’s the cool part – we don’t know! More detai... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Casio Puzzle watch: Awful pretty | It may not do much – it’s basically a feature watch with stopwatch, alarm, and 24-hour time – but it’s nicely designed. This Casio, called the Poptone Cubic Puzzle Watch, comes in blue or black and has buttons stacked up, Tetris-style, on t... |
| May 12, 2009 | TokyoFlash is giving away watches | TokyoFlash is giving away a watch to three winners of their TokyoFlash landmark contest. The rules are pretty simple: simply create an image of a famous horological landmarks redesigned with TokyoFlash faces i.e. Big Ben with the Rogue face... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | A plea from the future: Tokyoflash needs your help | Tokyoflash, everyone’s favorite denizens of future town, need your help to pick their latest designs. They have about 12 crazy things and all of them are supposed to be some sort of Bluetooth solution that connects to a phone for hands-free... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | Tokyoflash Hanko reminds Emperor he is mortal, confuses us | So this watch is supposed to look like a Japanese signature seal and lights up in odd configurations, shown here, to show you the time. It’s made of brushed metal. It’s as unreadable as any other Tokyoflash watch, so unless you really like ... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | Kisai Sensai watch: Don't expect to be able to read it. | Tokyoflash strikes again, with yet another insane watch that’s almost impossible to read. The latest addition to their line, the “Kisai Sensai” is pretty much incomprehensible.
Made from aluminum, and using multicolored LED’s to indicate th... |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Stylish Tokyoflash ‘Keisan’ watches look nice, require above-average math skills | Ah, the Tokyoflash watches. We’ve covered them time and time again here on CrunchGear, yet I’ve never personally written about them since I haven’t had any experience with them yet. Well that all changed a few weeks ago during CES.
Me: “Gre... |
| Jan 6, 2009 | Tokyoflash's first watch of 2009, the R75 | The guys over at Tokyoflash have just announced their first new watch for 2009, the R75. Unlike some of Tokyoflash’s other watches this one actually seems simple to read while still looking cool.
Made from stainless steel, this watch has a ... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Amazing mechanical watches from history | I’m a watch fan but I’m mostly ignorant of how progress was made from, say, the Antikythera mechanism to TokyoFlash. As one might expect, there are a ton of one-offs, ingenious ideas, and mechanical indulgences which signalized the advancem... |
| Dec 23, 2008 | Think Tokyo Flash watches are too abstract? Think again | Sometimes I hear people complain about Tokyo Flash watches being too abstract and unreadable but I think this new watch from Japan sets the bar even higher.
The time on the so-called NOOKA YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE LIMITED MODEL is very hard to re... |
| Nov 25, 2008 | Kisai Denshoku: Shinjuku hot nights | The Kisai Denshoku is an homage to the lights and skyline of Shinjuku but personally I think this watch by Tokyoflash looks more like a little hibachi waiting for some shrimp and a nice flank of Kobe beef.
The Denshoku costs $247.72 and is ... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | Review: Tokyoflash Tibida Watch | I’ve always had a thing for Tokyo Flash, but it’s always been from a distance. She was so alluring and yet so perplexing. I was awed and mystified. We’ve finally gotten together with the new Tibida. The best thing is how she looks on my arm... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | Review: TokyoFlash S-Mode Oberon LED Watch | Unlike John Biggs or Flavor Flav, I am no timepiece purist. In fact, most watch lovers might consider me a heretic; in an age where every TV, DVD player, camera, and cellphone totes a clock, I’ve come to consider watches less of a tool, and... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | New Tokyoflash watch: 7 selectable colors on one watch | I’ve always liked Tokyoflash watches, but I’ve also always been wary of committing to a single crazy-ass color whenever a design impressed me; the ones I liked were always monochromatic. No more! The newest Tokyoflash timepiece, the Negativ... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | TokyoFlash Rogue: A labyrinth of connecting LCD blocks | I have something I need to get off my chest. I love me some watches and I think TokyoFlash has done more for the watch industry than they know, creating high-design timepieces for not much money. But when time-telling becomes painful, I wor... |
| Aug 14, 2008 | 10 Days of CrunchGear: Timing in Tokyo | Want to turn Japanese? How about an S-Mode Oberon IPB or Tokyoflash Infection from Tokyoflash . We’ve got one of each, so two winners total.
S-Mode Oberon IPB -Breaking through the atmosphere with the same velocity as its predecessor Titan,... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | Tokyoflash blows out five new watches | Who needs a watch fix? I do! I do! Tokyoflash just launched five new styles with sassy styling and a full complement of dial styles. They’re about $82 each and available online now. The full set appears below complete with descriptions. The... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | Tokyoflash SPACE WATCH! | The Galaxy from TokyoFlash shows hours on the big pips, the red pips show five minute intervals, and the green pips show single minutes. While it’s not immediately intuitive, it’s a bit better than TokyoFlash’s traditional “the green blob s... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Nekura Progression and Scramble watches: LED and LCDs make sweet love | These two new watches from Toykoflash feature a unique LED system that can change the face color at the touch of a button. While the watches are standard TF fare — odd faces and cool designs — the real magic happens when you swap the red fa... |
| May 21, 2008 | Tokyoflash Infection | While this watch won’t turning you into fast-moving blood zombie with a maniacal thirst for human flesh, it will turn you into someone who wears a really cool watch. The new Infection features sassy little protoplasms that you decipher by c... |
| May 13, 2008 | TokyoFlash S-Mode Oberon: When legibility isn't an option | I’m a watch purist so maybe the S-Mode Oberon isn’t for me. However, it is another cool creation from TokyoFlash and at about $150 it’s a considerable bargain. It has a stainless steel body, mineral crystal, and shows the time in a series o... |
| May 8, 2008 | Tokyoflash contest is over, read on for consolation prize | Our joint contest with TokyoFlash has concluded. Thanks to everyone who entered! The winners should be receiving emails soon, or may have already gotten them. If you didn’t win a watch, well, you’re still a winner for reading the site, and ... |
| May 4, 2008 | Contest: Win a sweet Tokyoflash watch | If you haven’t checked out our review of two Tokyoflash watches yet, go and do so. Because there will be a test! Seriously, there will. For your chance to win a cool watch from Tokyoflash (not necessarily one from the review, but hey), chec... |
| Apr 25, 2008 | Review: Tokyoflash Star Performer and Zero-G watches | Katana and Watchizaki
You must have heard of Tokyoflash. They’ve got the coolest watches on both this and that side of Japan, and also make the best of those binary-time watches that puzzle you whenever you see them. I have two specimens of... |
| Feb 19, 2008 | Phosphor E-Ink Watch review | [photopress:scaled.IMG_1375.JPG,full,pp_image]
After years of suffering, watch geeks are finally getting products dedicated to their quirky and specific tastes. Sure, any oldster can sport a gold Rolex, but what is an Emo kid with a gadget ... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | TokyoFlash Tibida: White LEDs! | Another day, another crazy watch from TokyoFlash. This one is the Tibida with a binary and digital time readout that is actually cool.
See, this thing shows time in binary and standard formats. The binary mode is a little hard to grasp but ... |
| Dec 10, 2007 | Tokyoflash 1259Q watch: Remember, Chavistas, set your unreadable watches backward 30 minutes! | Sure, it’s pretty, but can you tell the time? I’ve been watching Tokyoflash move from “cool gimmick” to “fashion-forward horology source” and I’m kind of dismayed by their latest invention, the 1259Q. I’m not even going to try to tell you h... |
| Jun 14, 2007 | Oots Oots Oots: You Gotta Believe the Equalizer BPM Helps You Raise The Roof | Hey, funboys! Get a room! And while you’re at it, get an Equalizer BPM watch from Tokyoflash. This watch measures the audible BPM of any sound source — they’re saying it works as a heart rate monitor as well, but I doubt it — but for $65 yo... |
| May 17, 2007 | WebTime Elite | As a watch nut, I rarely drool over TokyoFlash’s odd designs or timepieces. Sure, they’re creative, but I’m a mechanical snob. Whatever. I like this one. This is an updated version of their WebTime watch which tells the time using overlappi... |
| Apr 24, 2007 | Shinshoku Watch: Look At The Pretty Lights | TokyoFlash has some of the craziest watches I’ve ever seen and 90 percent of the time I have trouble deciphering the time, and the Shinshoku is no different. This stainless steel wristband consists of a template of holes with 29 LEDs that l... |
| Dec 19, 2006 | JLr7: For People l33t3r Than You | Hey I love intriguing and original design, but on the other hand, I’m nothing if not practical. And as a tech critic, it’s my job to question the validity of products.
So when I saw this JLr7 watch I knew that it falls neatly into the realm... |
| Dec 11, 2006 | 2006 Holiday Buyer's Guide: Geek Watches | . Therefore, I thought it fitting that I cover ten nice timepieces that you can pick up for the horolgy geek in your life. A few caveats, however. I’m a traditional watch geek, one who slobbers over mechanical watches in the $500-$100,000 r... |
| Dec 8, 2006 | TokyoFlash Biohazard: They Live Among Us | TokyoFlash sells some fancy watches, including a little something that our own little Raj wears around the house. Now, however, we’ve got one that can detect aliens even without having to slice their outer skins to get at the milky green sk... |
