Tokyo Flash Oberon LED Wrist Watch Marks a Return to Form for the Masters of Time Telling Abstraction

Tokyo Flash Oberon LED Wrist Watch

Whilst we’ve always had a soft spot for Tokyo Flash’s decidedly geeky range of wrist watches, we have noted that they had started to become rather too over-bearing for our liking – and hence, somewhat less cool than we had otherwise come to expect – but there’s no doubt that, as far as we are concerned at least, their new Oberon wrist watch marks a triumphant return to form.

Tokyo Flash Oberon LED Wrist Watch Detail

Abstract without being overdone and different without seeming trivial, the Oberon wrist watch, the latest in their S-Mode range of watches, comes with an IP finished stainless steel body and offers the time via a series of LEDs placed in rings with the outer ring indicating the hours, the second ring single minutes and the third inner ring indicating minutes in groups of ten (a secondary mode serving to display the date in a similar fashion).

Kyokusen watch preview

Tokyo Flash’s Kyokusen Watch

(We weren’t impressed)

Agreed, like so many of Tokyo Flash’s offerings, it’ll take some practice before you can reel off the time quite as quickly as you could with a more conventionally designed watch but, unlike a number of their recent offerings, its not so overly abstracted as to prove insanely taxing to use in practice and, more importantly, due to its understated elegance it manages to be cool without looking like you have a tacky fairground strapped to your wrist. Bravo Tokyo Flash.

Tokyo Flash Oberon LED Wrist Watch Detail 2

The Oberon is water resistant to 5 meters and retails for ¥14900 (which is approximately $137 / €92 / £67 at the time of writing).

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