If you happen find a conventional digital watch too obtrusive with its pedestrian “always-on” display and audible alarm, the Mutewatch might just be the solution. The Mutewatch is a single piece rubberized watch from a Stockholm, Sweden based company of the same name. This one-size -fits-all minimalist watch incorporates a capacitive touchscreen, an led segment display, a motion sensor, and a vibrating alarm. There are no buttons and the screen is activated by flicking your wrist (presumably similar to the Auto-EL feature on G-Shocks) or touching the screen. Once the watch is visually active you can swipe between the clock, an alarm or a timer. Setting the functions is as easy as tapping and sliding the digits you would like to change.
The stand-out feature for the Mutewatch will be the vibrating alarm which can actively adjust its strength given data from the motion sensor. The Mutewatch is powered by an internal battery which is rated for 1-2 weeks of use depending on the application (more vibration and screen use will render less battery life). Replenishing the battery’s charge is done via a usb connection and a fill up should take about 2 hours. The Mutewatch is a rare example of a product that looks like a design study but is still going into production. The combination of $259 and 5-6 weeks of your patience will land you a Mutewatch in your choice of red, grey or white.
Jing Zhuang
Really facsinating! Except one thing: The display seems to be always perpendicular to one’s horizontal sight line… Shall we turn our wrist by 90 degrees to fit our eyes?? I’m not so sure…
Jing Zhuang
Really facsinating! Except one thing: The display seems to be always perpendicular to one’s horizontal sight line… Shall we turn our wrist by 90 degrees to fit our eyes?? I’m not so sure…
Kels
I think it’s orientated that way so you can glance down at it without turning your wrist like you would with a normal watch. Just placed an order for the grey one from http://twistedtime.com/watch-brands/mutewatch.html. Should be shipping soon so I’ll find out soon!
Anonymous
The watch is designed to be worn with the display on the inside of your wrist, if you try looking at the inside of your wrist and orient it as to read the display, you’ll see it’s actually pretty comfortable.
Jing Zhuang
Really facsinating! Except one thing: The display seems to be always perpendicular to one’s horizontal sight line… Shall we turn our wrist by 90 degrees to fit our eyes?? I’m not so sure…
DifferentWatch
Wow, i have never come across this beauty of a watch before!! I’m going to do some research on this now – nice article btw 🙂
Radtariq90
This looks amazing….. extremely innovative…. but i have but one question… is it water resistant?
Lui
go to
http://mutewatch.com/info/specs
James Stacey
It looks as thought they don’t list a specific water resistance. I was able to get this quote off of a facebook response from a user asking the same question: “We recommend you to gently wash it with soap and water but we cannot recommend you to go swimming or diving with it. We have done some tests, which the watch has passed but we need to do more tests before we can say for sure how much pressure it can handle :)”
I hope that helps.
JS