Tron-inspired LED Watch

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Design submitted by Scott from UK.

This concept was voted as one of the most popular designs by fans on the blog and thanks to your votes has become reality and is now available to buy here exclusively at Tokyoflash Japan.

This watch design takes its inspiration from one of Scott’s favorite films as a kid, TRON, and from his Pimp Pimpin Ain’t Easy watch.  He wants something that will get noticed when it lights up and that’s why he came up with an electroluminescence strip around the whole watch strap.

The two rings (styled on a Tron Disc) represent minutes (outer) and hours (inner).  The break in the ring represents the time in a normal clock face layout.

The electroluminescence strip and LED watch face makes the whole watch light up and will definitely stand out from other watches.

382 thoughts on “Tron-inspired LED Watch”

  1. this clock is one of my favorites, the TRON’ design is amazing, perhaps the unique defect that I see it is that the design of the light in the strap breaks the style of tron, perhaps with lambda-type but processed but maintaining the TRON style, nevertheless even so I would buy it.

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    • This watch should go to sail. It really catches an eye poping affect. Great design! I just wish it would go for production.

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    • It matters not whether anyone votes – it will be in production soon… Green will be least popular in the US – Red and Blue will both be popular in actual sales of units.

      Green will do better in the EU, and should be made along with Yellow on a white band – offered to Lancealot Armstrong/Socialcauses/Enviro-emo set. Do not worry about lumens transmission – it will be plenty bright for in the dimly lit cold press coffee/vodak bars west of the Rockies.

      Trust me, I’m a real-life genius.
      JK

      PS – I’ll take one thousand Blue Ones if they’re ready by December 11.

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  3. Wow this is a must have watch very cool..I hope Tokyo Flash accept this and sell it..i will definitely buy it.

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  4. i like the design, but personally i’m not a big fan of analog-style displays.
    if there were a more digital/industrial/cyberpunk version of the same design, i’d definitely be interested.

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  7. Agreed, this is flawless! Breath taking! Simple to read, understated design, beautiful colour scheme. I love the sharp neon colours on the black case. Sign me up for this one too!!! Great work Scott!!

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  8. I definitely want one, Tron is the movie, and this watch would be great, you should make this watch release the same date as the new Tron movie!!!!

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  12. I would easily pay 200 bucks for this watch. If you make this I want it out before the premier so I can be bad ass… I want this watch asap PLEASE 🙂

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  15. A Tron watch has come up in our conversation amongst the designers now for the last 10 years. We never did get around to drawing one up. We where thinking of doing the BIKE MAZE on the watch and the 2 lines racing along and explode into the side where the hours and minutes are. This one is a totally different take on a Tron watch, Nice and minimal. The time telling part is the same as the Eleeno Eye test watch that we sold a while back. Nice Design Scott, getting lots of WOULD BUYs in our admin. 🙂

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    • Oh yes bike maze please! Could you really do this watch? I can imagine, Disney has something to say to you 🙂

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    • Wow, thankyou all for all you comments. i’m just pleased my designs have got this far! Nice to see i’m not the only TRON geek! 🙂

      i guess the watch is actually roughly based around all 3 of my Tokyoflash watches (pimpin ain easy, rougue and oberon). The idea is for the watch to get noticed, to light up like never before. The TRON style seemed to fit that requirement.

      thanks again everyone.

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    • Hi there:

      I just saw this picture from newspaper today in Taiwan and I was really stunned by your design and would like to become your sole retailer in Taiwan if possible.

      This is a great design I’ve seen this year!! Really good job!!

      Alex,

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  19. So why did you add a 3rd line for the Sec’s on the outside? Or even in the Center? Or even a Dot in the center that spins? Also if this is made dont sell it as 3 colors to choose. It should change on your mood = ) So it ifs yellow/orange everyone would know not to upset you HAHAHA… But really the colors could change though at the day. morning would be blue after noon yellow dark red…
    Or a button would do = ) what does everyone think?
    ftvzimmy@yahoo.com

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    • hmmmm….colour changing. Interesting idea, hadn’t thought of that. The colours are based on the original lightbike scene, hence the red, blue and yellow. Personally I think the option of a button to set the colour would be cool.

      As for the rings to tell the time, this was to represent the Tron discs. The new style discs in legacy seem to have two luminous strips, which i thought would fit the hours and minutes.

      Its early days yet, but if this does get seriously considered, i’ll certainly take on board any comments/suggestions posted. Thanks for the feedback.

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  20. the colour change is better than having to choose a colour and put a button on so you can change the colots yourself i like the idea of a 3rd ring for the seconds. Lets get it made

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  21. this watch is awsome, the lights are so futuristicand the watch face is so interesting. would deffinatelty buy it!!! :>

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  23. I love the idea, but I would want to have all three colors available in the same watch. It would cut down on production costs and you wouldn’t have to worry about an excess of one color or another for popularity. Perhaps have the face of the watch be depressable so that you can turn the light on or off to conserve battery life, but have it be a toggle switch so that you can have it on for extended periods of time.

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    • Possibly also making a pocket watch design as well with a chain that has a fiberoptic cable running up it displaying whatever color the watch is as well.

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  26. That was what my idea was,

    Colors change based on Time of day. (Early mornings Yellow, Day time Blue, Night Time Red. )
    Options with that can be something like Lights always stay on. Or Pulse when change in Day/night
    like its early morning about to be mid day. Pluses Blue a few times…

    Button to change colors what color u want to set./ Plus Color On/Off…

    3rd ring/Or Dot orbiting the inner/Or outer circle to show you the seconds…

    Plus when the lights off how bad ass would it be to turn it on to check the time and the rings light up
    individual spinning in difference directions before showing you the time = )

    Man i can do this all day, Scott email me lets work together on this and get a 3d/flash demo going.
    If this is do get done we need to make it stand out like no other hit me up…will go 60/40 Ill be the 40 = )

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  27. Best watch on this site! would buy it the day it came out. Maybe even 2, so I would have one for back-up.

    1.) Love the 2 circles in the face. Please do not add any dots or 3rd circles. Who really needs to know the “seconds” anyways?

    2.) Agreed about 3 colors in one watch. Only for production cost though. So you wont have to worry about selling more of one color.

    3.) Some sort of way to charge it. Like a dock of some sort.

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  28. speedracergt says:
    October 11th 2010 at 15:14 52
    1.) Love the 2 circles in the face. Please do not add any dots or 3rd circles. Who really needs to know the “seconds” anyways?

    Agreed on that 100% Thrid circle would be just TO MUCH.

    2.) Agreed about 3 colors in one watch. Only for production cost though. So you wont have to worry about selling more of one color.

    I have to Disagree, unless its selectable from 1 of 3 colors… Also green version would kick ass too.

    3.) Some sort of way to charge it. Like a dock of some sort.

    This point is BEST… Since Round Trip charging via USB would be perfect!

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    Secsron Secsron says:
    October 10th 2010 at 15:52 35

    […] depressable so that you can turn the light on or off to conserve battery life […]

    Another 100% YES to that idea it seems that battery wouldn’t live to long for us to have fun with that watch cause its JUST SO DAMN FLASHY!… And having it on OFF wouldn’t draw so much attention.

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  29. The design is perfect, nothing should be added, if anyone needs a stopwatch, maybe it should be activated by a switch of some kind. Charging through a miniUSB would be perfect. 3 colors in one watch, switchable – that would really make things more than interesting!

    Looking farward to ordering the ready product 🙂

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  30. I love the design, I´ve always been a Tron fan, and it looks very futuristic and cool. It should either have a way of changing the color or being sold at least blue and red. It should be depressable as Shachmat said.

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  31. Oh my lord…. You HAVE to make this watch.

    Maybe tie it in to the Tron 2.0 launch for maximum retail impact.

    I would certainly wear one… They are the coolest concept I have seen in a long while

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  33. this is so far the best watch i have ever seen i love the color i will surely buy this when it comes out everyone would

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  35. Agreed! This minimalism and strong tie back to the movie make this an AWESOME design! I too would DEFINITELY buy one!

    Perhaps a center button could light up the watch to tell time then fade out with only a VERY minimal glow to the rings? It would conserve battery and allow it to function as a watch all of the time, without too much battery drain!

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  36. wonderful i want one

    as an art director / designer i love it

    i’ve bought 6 watches from tokyoflash

    make this watch folks

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  40. Switching colours should be awsome! Third ring for seconds is not necessary, moreover two rings looks better. On/Off button for lights isn’t bad idea. But there is one little problem for me – recognizing of single minutes. What about short strips on positions 15, 30, 45 and 60? I Please, let me know when these watches will be done. Anyway, I have to own it!

    P.S.: What about small circle (or copy of two circles for hours/minutes) in the middle for AM/PM?

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  41. This watch is great, I love the fact the strap is an electro-luminescence strip, this makes it different to most watches (would be cool if you could turn it though – in case your thinking of going to the cinema).

    However its all Great, would buy one tomorrow. Tokyo Flash you must consider this one to be made – in fact dont consider it, make it pleeeeeese.

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  43. I would buy this watch for sure. The only way to make it even better would be if the watch slowly lit up from one end to the other, and then after the band was lit up, animate the face. This watch would be a must buy for me.

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  44. yes! awesome! Tron was so much inspiring for the sci-fi movies, it just make sense to get inspired to make a watch out of it!
    Well done!! I m dying to see it in real!!

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  48. It’s ok. I don’t like how you handled the strap lights. The time telling is cool. I thinks I saw something like that before… but not glowing! Tron was cool, this watch is too. But you shouldn’t gain strength from something you don’t have the rights for. Someone here also said something like that but it wasn’t clear enough. Anyway, good job.

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  49. Changing colour would be awesome, as well as a button to turn the colour on or off, but I think a third ring for seconds might be really good. As cool as it is with two discs, having a third disc for seconds would be both useful and awesome, because then we’d have a disc that keeps on spinning.

    And indicator for AM/PM would be useful as well. You don’t necessarily need an extra LED. Maybe the press of the light-on button would have the lights blink once for AM and twice for PM, or vice versa.

    In any case, I would definitely buy this watch. I do hope TokyoFlash decides to make it.

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    • But rather than having a jarring motion like you see with standard watches (tick, tick, tick), the seconds disc could be a nice smooth rotation. It would add a little bit more mystery to it.

      The only worry is that with a disc for seconds, there might seem to be too many discs on the watch, but that can be solved by making the ring for a third disc really thin.

      And it makes sense as well. Hours disc is the thickest, minutes disc is a bit thinner, and the seconds disc would be really thin (but still noticeable, especially with that glow).

      Oh, and I agree that green should be added. Red, blue, yellow, and green (and maybe a pure white) all in a single watch.

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