Slow Watches

Saw this ad pop up here on CIH.



It's for a one-handed, 24 hr watch that, because it only has one hand which travels around a 24 hr face, it (obviously) moves at ½ the speed of a normal watch's hour hand.

Hence the name & accompanying marketing gimmick.

The ad, unlike the above screenshot, was animated & had changing panels, one of which featured the following hokey drivel...

"Can a watch change your life? slow: The 24 hour one hand watch. slow is not a speed, it's a mindset that most of us somehow lost. Let's make time to bring slow back into our life."

Oh, so an overpriced watch that moves half as fast as a regular watch, is going to change my life? How? By making the daily boredom seem even more interminable????

The website is even worse. A slideshow presentation of artsy fartsy b&w pictures of some male model dweeb doing all kinds of "cool hip" frollicky things around NYC, mostly in the company of laughing, upbeat, enthusiastic, beautiful female fashion models, each picture captioned with some trite cliche describing the world of new possibilities that wearing one of their watches could open up to you.

https://www.slow-watches.com/the-brand

Throughout the entire time I was checking out the ad & the website, all I was thinking was....

"Who even wears watches anymore???? Don't most people nowadays just use their cell phones to tell what time it is??"

I guess it beats lying down in the sun with a Victoria's Secret catalog, but I'll still pass. 

Darthhillbilly wrote: I guess it beats lying down in the sun with a Victoria's Secret catalog, but I'll still pass.  My truck has a clock, my phone has a clock, clocks everywhere you look. I can think of a bunch of things to better spend $250.00 Oh crap, it's half-past my belly button, I gotta get dressed and get inside.

But what if it's cloudy and cold or worse?

Nobody is going to be 'Rick Flaming' you Dark Hillbilly.