Comments on: New Tokyoflash Galaxy Watch Marks a Return to Overt Brashness [Tacky Watches] http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/07/03/new-tokyoflash-galaxy-watch-marks-a-return-to-overt-brashness-tacky-watches/ TFTS - the very latest in technology news, new gadgets and gizmos. From HDTVs to netbooks, cell phones, DSLR cameras, PMPs, DAPs. Thu, 24 May 2012 04:21:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andrew Tingle http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/07/03/new-tokyoflash-galaxy-watch-marks-a-return-to-overt-brashness-tacky-watches/#comment-54598 Andrew Tingle Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:20:22 +0000 http://nexus404.com/Blog/?p=5814#comment-54598 I totally disagree, John - but that's the nature of personal opinion, isn't it (and your opinion is, of course, as valid as my own, though not any more so). I totally disagree, John – but that’s the nature of personal opinion, isn’t it (and your opinion is, of course, as valid as my own, though not any more so).

]]> By: John S http://nexus404.com/Blog/2008/07/03/new-tokyoflash-galaxy-watch-marks-a-return-to-overt-brashness-tacky-watches/#comment-54570 John S Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:09:28 +0000 http://nexus404.com/Blog/?p=5814#comment-54570 As soon as the face of the watch changes from the traditionally marked 12 point outer and two hands on the inside there is a level of decoding required to tell the time. Even if the traditional points are not numbered or numeraled, removing them altogether means that the position of the watch and the now virtualized position of 12 need to be imagined and there is no accurate scale by which the time can be told. I argue that after a very short learning period of counting well-marked bars you can tell the time accurately to the minute a lot easier than any watch that lacks the tradiitonal numbering or marked hour / five minute segregation that uses hands in any form. For this reason I think that you review is massivley harsh. Wearing the watch for a day will provide enough experience for anyone (with perhaps the exception of the author of this review) to be able to use the watch fully. Now, if its the colours that you dont like fair enough, but thats personal opinion. To slate this watch so harshly because its difficult to read is pretty stupid, especially when followed up with a recommendation for watches that are so minimalist that reading the time to within five minutes is the best you can hope for. Calling a watch that has no hands or number insipid demonstrates a severe lack of the ability to use a dictionary too. Everything about a watch with no hands and no numbers is entirely distinct and interesting. As soon as the face of the watch changes from the traditionally marked 12 point outer and two hands on the inside there is a level of decoding required to tell the time. Even if the traditional points are not numbered or numeraled, removing them altogether means that the position of the watch and the now virtualized position of 12 need to be imagined and there is no accurate scale by which the time can be told. I argue that after a very short learning period of counting well-marked bars you can tell the time accurately to the minute a lot easier than any watch that lacks the tradiitonal numbering or marked hour / five minute segregation that uses hands in any form.

For this reason I think that you review is massivley harsh. Wearing the watch for a day will provide enough experience for anyone (with perhaps the exception of the author of this review) to be able to use the watch fully.

Now, if its the colours that you dont like fair enough, but thats personal opinion. To slate this watch so harshly because its difficult to read is pretty stupid, especially when followed up with a recommendation for watches that are so minimalist that reading the time to within five minutes is the best you can hope for. Calling a watch that has no hands or number insipid demonstrates a severe lack of the ability to use a dictionary too. Everything about a watch with no hands and no numbers is entirely distinct and interesting.

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