Giveaway: super rare E Ink watch!

If you're at all interested in a chronograph featuring an electrophoretic display, your options are few and expensive: head to Japan and try to mug a geeky salaryman, or hit up eBay in the hops of placing the winning bid on an export Seiko Spectrum. Or, you know, enter our giveaway for super rare hand-built E Ink corporation watch. Here's the story.

E Ink, the company that developed that whole electronic ink / electrophoretic display thing, had just nine custom watches hand-built -- eight will be worn on the wrists of members of the company's board, and the last one will be given away here on Engadget! The watch itself is an analogue timepiece with a monochrome digital face that shows date, time, and numbers for the hands in white on black or black on white. Yes, the watch even comes with a certificate of authenticity. So, want to take it home? Read on, check out the gallery below, and good luck!

A few rules (yeah, there are always rules):

• Leave a comment below -- tell us which crappy watch (if any) this fancy E Ink piece will be replacing.
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and if you submit more than once, only activate one comment, ok?
• The prize is open to anyone worldwide!
• Contest is open until 11:59pm EDT on Friday, July 13th.

Giveaway: super rare E Ink watch!

[Towerlack Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:46PM]

Replacing my Nike Swift.

[chrisaroz Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:29PM]

Timex!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 10:37AM]

I don't have afford paying for a watch that will hold together for more than a month! So currently I have none..

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:53PM]

It will be replacing no watch. How is that for crappy?

[acidscan Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

It will be replacing my Citizen Eco-Drive :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

This will replace my crappy rubber Timex with a cracked LCD!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:29PM]

I don't have a watch to wear.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:40PM]

I'd love to replace my Darth Maul Burger King watch!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:40PM]

My cell phone.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:01PM]

One made out of 'fruit by the foot' with the time written on it. Hey, it's right twice a day. :D

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:05PM]

Replace my scratched up Fossil that I've had for years.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:10PM]

What a cool watch!
I need it to add to my cool watch collection.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:14PM]

Sign me up!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 5:23PM]

replacing a watch that is currently hiding under my bed. Cool watch though, runs off kinetic energy

[Bandholz Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:24PM]

This will be replacing my Omega Geneve that dates back to around 1969. It doesn't have a battery and I have to wind it for power.

[anonymouspimp Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:37PM]

my Blackberry. I noe haves watch anymoor. :(

pleez makes me kool!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:42PM]

this watch will replace my G-Shock, circa 1992!

[brett Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:56PM]

it may occasionally take the place of, but will never "replace" my workhorse automatic pulsar...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 5:09PM]

I need this watch because I am one of the few geeks on here without an iPhone, so I have no way to tell the time. Egads!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 5:20PM]

i dont have a watch to wear =[.

[dgs Posted Jul 6th 2007 5:52PM]

My black Nixon Scout is far too cool, and damaging my UK-iPhone-deprived Nerd Cred. I need to explain to all my friend what e-ink is!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 6:01PM]

ME ME ME
!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 6:35PM]

yes please, i would like one haha

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 6:41PM]

Well I have a choice here, will I replace my tv remote watch given to me by my ec girlfriend? Or will it be my first computer, yes a Seiko watch with a connectable keyboard and 16k of memory given as a present 16 years ago? The choice is difficult but either way I think its time for a change!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 7:08PM]

oooh me wantz!!! it would replace a chinese "rolex" that i got for 50 cents!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2007 12:06AM]

replacing my watch that broke 2 months ago on an airplane causing some stir that i was a terrorist

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 9:28PM]

Replacing my portable sundial. That bitch is heavy, so I am VERY excited ti upgrade.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2007 2:15PM]

this watch will be replacing a slick 32 megabyte USB flash drive/analog watch combo my father brought back for me from Japan!

[wasborn Posted Jul 7th 2007 9:06PM]

replace the watch my dad 'borrowed' from me (which was months ago...)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2007 2:14AM]

replacing a guess.

[BrutalSpoon Posted Jul 8th 2007 9:10PM]

uh, this would be replacing my... skin... and... hair.. watch... yes..... hey! look over there! *yoink!*

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 12:35AM]

Replacing my folex I got in China. Thats right, even cheaper than the new york knockoffs.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2007 8:23AM]

Un reloj diferente, pero impresionante. No llevo reloj actualmente, pero para impresionar a los amigos, este es el reloj idóneo.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 10th 2007 4:24PM]

i dont own a watch - yet ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 10th 2007 4:27PM]

Replacing my Verizon issued Samsung watch!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 10th 2007 5:16PM]

It will be replacing a Timex watch which has taken a licking and is not ticking. I don't know who licked it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2007 5:20PM]

Not my omega, hell no

my boy's walmart watch has got to go

[markieamark Posted Jul 16th 2007 1:04AM]

I'd love to kiss your ass and tell you how fantastic your watch or how pathetcilly needy I am so I can get it for free and immediately sell it on e-bay.

[ejdyksen Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

My crappy fossil watch!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

it will be replacing my fake bvlgari watch with scrapes all over....

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 10th 2007 4:20PM]

This will be replacing my folex i bought in ny

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

My crappy scratched Fossil watch

[iamnid Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:34PM]

this will be replacing my Rolex Daytona.

[Peter H Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

I guess it'd replace an old Wegner watch that lives in my drawer because it has a broken band (and isn't e-ink).

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

I have an old Sundial that only works during the day Id love to replace

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2007 12:02PM]

Fossil BIG TIC.
Its second hand is Chinese character LC!

[Wai Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:30PM]

this watch will be replacing the nothing around my wrists... if i win, i love u long tiem!!1!1one!!1

ENGADGET! YAY!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2007 7:51PM]

Me too!

I find it funny, if anyone here is a lord of the rings fan, you should get a chuckle out of this. One ring given to engadget, to bind them in the darkness!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 3:32PM]

-MY- Citizen Eco-Drive :D

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 6th 2007 8:13PM]

replaying a fossil watch i just lost in the river