Furni x Cool Hunting Retro LCD Watch
Cool Hunting has collaborated with Furni to produce these attractive retro LCD watches, made most notable for their trendy white band and bastardized Duran Duran quote engraved on the back. They're $24 each, plus shipping.
Catalog Page [Furni.MyShopify.com via Cool Hunting]
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let me get this right. $24 bucks for a watch that looks like you bought it for $3 from a gas station on a back road in arkansas? No, no I think I'll just not do that.
But it's white!
It reminds of the Casio's I used to use all the time when I was a kid - they had a built-in alarm that you could set in 15 minute increments with one button push, up to 2 hours. That was how I made sure I got home for Dinner. They were also $15, so it didn't matter that I lost 4 of them.
I don't wear watches anymore, but I'm all about the Kyokusen at Tokyoflash. I'm thinking of ordering it just to wear when I go out.
I, um, still wear the Casio cheapie this design is ripped from. "Retro" or not, it's not as though the model's been discontinued.
Also, apparently it's popular with terrorists.
I'm not especially a Duran Duran fan or anything, but if the alarm was a woman's voice moaning "aaaAAAH" as in the fadeout to "Hungry Like the Wolf", I'd consider buying it.
$24 isnt a bad price for this. I tried buying a cheapie digital watch at K-Mart and they're at least $30. And that's for 90s retro which is definitly not as cool as 80s retro.