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/pound sterling111 (as at the time of writing).