Devon Works Tread 1 is the bulletproof Droid of wristwatches (video)

Forget the fact that this thing is bulletproof or that its internal battery is recharged wirelessly, just look at it. Built around an array of four microstep motors -- each driving one of an interwoven quartet of time belts -- the Devon Works Tread 1 creates a veritable visual symphony of precise motion to accompany the typically mundane task of checking the time. The watch was designed with the help of a Californian aerospace engineering company, which should go some way to justifying its $15,000 asking price. The rest of that justification will have to come from the "oohs" and "aahs" you incite in stupefied onlookers. Go past the break to see the promo video, it achieves rare heights of machismo that are not to be missed.

[Mike V Posted Apr 20th 2010 8:14PM]

Yeah, would be better as a clock.

[REDMATT Posted Apr 20th 2010 8:40PM]

Anyone who questions the price point... is not in their target market, has no business wearing this watch, and has no idea the design/engineering prowess it takes to create something this complex and get it into such a small package. it's absolutely incredible if they did what they say they did. Natural selection will weed out the people that get the opportunity to wear this watch or not... and bye that I mean, if your worried about the price... Mother nature has already selected you as not worthy, because either you, or someone else in your gene pool along the way, got lazy.

[superiorbeing Posted Apr 20th 2010 10:30PM]

Not only is that watch upside down, at the end, but he is also covering his junk...