Tokyoflash Hanko LED Digital Watch [Yet Another Cryptic LED Timepiece, Yawn]

Tokyoflash have unveiled their newest LED watch, known as the Tokyoflash Hanko, which apparently fuses ‘modern design with traditional character’ on account of purportedly being inspired by a Japanese signature stamp whilst utilising a total of 23 separate LEDs to convey the time in a cryptic manner that, if you ask us, has long since become inexorably dull and long in the tooth.

Regular readers of TFTS will know that, unlike many sites of in our niche, we have long since ceased to find Tokyoflash’s breed of watch design either inspiring or innovative and, if pushed further, we fail to see how these increasingly gaudy watches could appeal to anyone but pre-pubescent teens who think that such watches will impress the ladies (highly improbable) or, at the very least, their similarly aged mates (slightly more probable). But quite who else these watches actually appeal to wholly eludes us – and yet, appeal they must, as they undoubtedly sell, and sell well.

So, for those of you who are interested in the prospect of strapping a monstrosity on their wrist in order to have to ask others the time (being that they’ll never quite fathom how to gauge the time courtesy of their own timepiece), here’s the low-down concerning the Tokyoflash Hanko.

According to Tokyoflash’s blurb, the stainless steel Hanko, which weighs in at 72 grams, sports 23 LEDs (either blue, white or multi-colored depending on model), offers 3ATM water resistance and will fit a minimum wrist size of 150mm and a maximum wrist size of 200mm.

With respect to actually establishing the time, Tokyoflash offer the following insight:

One touch of the upper button animates the sub-surface LEDs in a clockwise direction before the time is presented. Hours are shown in the centre circle of the watch, groups of five minutes are shown in the outer circle in the same position as numbers on a clock and single minutes are shown in the areas between.

The Tokyoflash Hanko LED Watch has just become available for just shy of $100.