Happy Hour watches open bottles, doors unto new worlds (video)
By Vlad Savov 
posted March 10th 2010 6:34AM
posted March 10th 2010 6:34AM
posted March 10th 2010 6:34AM
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Best invention ever! Disgusting looking watch though.
@DougieBear watches are fashion casualties. opening bottles is ok UNLESS ITS BEER OR ALCOHOL RELATED. i rate this a negative rating
Or you could save your pennies and use the end of a lighter. I always have my pocketknife on me and it has a metal handle with an edge that's perfectly suited to pop the top off a bottle. Grab the bottle with your weak hand, wedge the lighter/knife between your index finger and the edge of the cap, and smoothly rotate it downwards about 90 degrees. Pop!
To paraphrase Archimedes, "Give me a bottle and a lighter and I'll rock your world."
Lighter trick looks cooler as well...
@DougieBear
I use my ring or the churchkey on my keychain or the bottle opener on my multi-tool, but if that watch face didn't look so damn ugly I probably would have gotten one since I'm in the market for a new watch and I can always use another bottle opener.
@NeoJew I use another bottle...
@emopoops obvious troll is obvious.
@emopoops
Well he did open a BEER, so I don't see why you brought that up...
Watches are far from fashion casualties!
I've got an atomic time piece (automatically updates in 29 time zones,) that is solar powered (never needs a battery replaced,) calender until the year 2100, analog and digital displays, 2 alarms, timer/Chronograph, titanium case and bezel, and more... AND it makes me look GOOD.
Would die-hard drinkers even buy this? Or is it something that you just buy to showoff?
...and why is this on Engadget? ooh dual analog clocks!
@CaptainPlanet
It would go perfect with my Bro in-law's Miller Lite bottle opener baseball cap.
@CaptainPlanet
Because someone figured out how to up date something that's been around forever and ever. Simple designs are the best, especially when it should have been thought of years ago.
Not for every one, but I think it's sweeet.
Perfect, if only I drank beer and not hard liquor..hmmm does it open champagne bottles?
@abedinthehouse
i'm not sure champagne counts as a hard liquor...
@abedinthehouse I'm also not sure that's how you would open a bottle of champagne...or any other wine.
@abedinthehouse
If only the watch had a cork opener right? You snob.
@Abuzar1
I want my watch to have an egg topper. So I can eat soft boiled eggs anywhere I want... duh.
What's an egg topper you say? You just haven't lived if you've never topped an egg.
http://www.webstaurantstore.com/egg-topper/9804259500.html
I use a sword to open my wine bottles....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHHSOKFzmYQ&feature=related
But my fiancee will use her boobs, when I show her this video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85wleqv8zI&NR=1
I want 1
I'll just use a lighter like always...
The watch looks like it was going to come off before the cap itself.
@CaptianPlanet
being a die-hard, I would buy it just for that extra value...because theres always that one time when you need a cold drink and u finally get one, but you have nothing to open it with and no counter to use either
@abedinthehouse
Am I the only person who opens beer by twisting it with my hands?
@keyl10
Apparently you're the only person that drinks exclusively twist off beer.
@bernie16wb
not if you come to the UK you won't
This thing would be great, I hate it when you need bottle opener that you never have one around, this would be with you wherever you go. Like a emergency bottle opener ;D. I have to agree that it's not the best looking watch though...
@mikachu There is ALWAYS a way
Links:
http://www.brettstern.com/files/writing.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Open-a-Bottle-Without-a-Bottle-Opener
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJV5HW61yoE
@hq best you tube video i have seen in a while.
I'd buy 0.
Just use your girlfriends boobs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOg03GPAv4
Don't be a pus... er, wimp.
Open it with your teeth like men do.
i'm still waiting for a phone that's rigid enough to open bottles with - damn these flimsy plastic things
Neat idea, to bad I buy king cans...
There's always the belt and key-chain. Hell, i have a small (literally the second smallest from victorinox) Swiss army knife that has a kick ass bottle opener.
Also, any cheap phone is strong enough to open a bottle /\/\/\ the cheaper the stronger... think cuz of the thick plastics IDK but my freind used his $20 phone to open 10+ bottles every weekend for a year. Looked like crap after that but it still worked just fine ;)
Or, errruhh, you could just be a MAN and open it with your hands..just sayin...
@CHICHIgetdaYAYO
Are your hands made of steel or do you just only drink cheep beer?
At 0:30 , it sounds like he said butthole rather than buckle.
Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad...
I ordered one a few days ago. I just like wide-band leather watches, and sure, why not open some bottles? It's also almost identical to a Vestal watch I had that was like $200. So for $50 I didn't hesitate.
I think they'd be accidents using this. Bootle might slip, lid scratch or cut you, beer over yourself etc.
For 49.95, you too can look like a douche. Something about this seems real "bro" to me.
Fossil has a band in the "watch bar" (where you pick out a band and a face, mix and match sort of thing) with a bottle opener on it. Of course, if you buy it with a face, you end up paying closer to 80 than 50, but you get a Fossil instead of some no-name brand that probably uses Chinese movements.
This is a good idea..but the watch face could have been better looking.
They should just skip the timepiece part and invent a beer bottle that will open the next beer bottle.
@MilesBFree
They did! in the 90s... (and earlier, I'm sure) a company named Glacier Bay had a decent (for those days, pre microbrew) beer with a little depression in the bottom of the bottle, making it cake to twist off the next bottlecap...
Bottles open on the simple principle of using a lever and fulcrum. I always use a lighter as mentioned before but anything firm enoughto be used as a lever and use your finger as the fulcrum.
It looks like the leather band is not strong enough and over time (and many beer bottles) it is going to rip or stretch out horribly.
Best way to open a twistoff is in the stretchy skin under your just in front of your elbow... on the bottom side of your arm.
press the bottlecap into the skin (not too hard), then slowly turn (in the right direction), and the skin grips all the bent metal nodes with enough pressure to release the cap from it's glassy tomb.
The ladies think you are like some kind of strength god... but the flabbier the better!
Just don't get too drunk on Miller Lite and then try to do it with a Newcastle... cuz it's a twist off only trick.
I do believe if I saw a bro using one of these I might have to laugh in his face, then hit him with a high five.