Retro Styled LED ‘Random Pattern’ Digital Watch [Back to Extreme Style Basics]

Of the numerous digital (and specifically LED) watches we’ve featured this ‘Random Pattern’ LED watch has the distinction of being, on first inspection, just about the most aesthetically uninspiring watch we’ve posted about but, curiously, this watch, with its extreme aesthetic simplicity, after some consideration, strikes us as not without a certain charm.

Boasting (although perhaps that’s far too strong a word – its more like whispering) an undeniable retro flavour, this ‘Random Pattern’ LED watch dispenses with the multi-colored, often rather tacky, LED light shows seen on other certain LED watches preferring, instead, to come in under the radar with at least a little decorum and, all said and done, that’s hardly a bad thing.

Feature-wise, again this LED watch could be accused of being wholly uninspiring in offering nothing particularly than the facility to show the time (and show patterns?) but, whilst initially we thought it perhaps rather bland in this respect, we now feel that this lends it a certain integrity. It’s a time telling device – it tells the time (and the very idea of a watch merely telling the time seems so very novel in itself these days).

Yes, admittedly, we weren’t bowled over at first. In fact we almost decided to overlook it. But then we started to question why we should overlook it merely because it doesn’t play music, offer cell phone functionality, offer a bewildering array of lights that tell the time in a fashion that you’ll never quite be bothered to get to grips with after all, this is a watch and the beauty of it is, surely, that it professes to be nothing more.

The LED ‘Random Pattern’ digital watch is available in South Korea for the equivalent of $163/€131/£111 (as at the time of writing).