Kind of a shame they didn't put some lume on that compass marker, at least you'd be able to get a rough guess of the time in lower light. Very interesting design though!

Just picked up one of these. Great detail on the dial and the case is well made. For the money, I'd much rather have this than another generic $1k watch. I agree it's not your only watch, but the most unique watch I've seen in a while.

It’s unfortunately out of my price range but I really like this watch. My tastes are normally pretty traditional but I also like to buck that trend with an ultra modern piece from time to time and something like this does that perfectly. I love the thinking behind getting the minute wheel to rotate so it’s actually a readable one hander and the topographical detail on the globe is amazing. If my watch budget was bigger I’d totally have one of these.

I’ve got to say…. I really like this watch! It’s fairly easy to see the time and the design is very unique. I know it’s pricey but it’s not cheap to build and there’s not that many of them so it depends on what you’re looking for. Horses for courses. Would I buy one? No. But I’d like someone I know to buy one so I can see it in the flesh! Great review as always and I hope all is well with the family and that you’re all sleeping ok

I really appreciate the unique design and engineering of this watch. The detail on the earth dial is amazing. Too bad the price is so steep. 🤔

Personally I feel the 2020's are going to go down in history as the "Great Chinese Awakening". It's nice to see some originality out of them. Hopefully they do a better job being the dominant superpower in the world than we (America) did. We kinda lost our minds (and our hearts). Let's all come back to this video in 10 years.

Yeah, so I think my wrist sundial with built in compass might edge it out in terms of non usability…(the sundial is available in Bronze or Carbon fibre, so as not to affect the compass)

I just imagine Jody's first words to their new arrival to be something along the lines of "Hellloooooooo and welcome....."

Congratulations Jody on your newest little family member!!!

I always respect a watch that tries to do something different. There are enough mad people with enough money to sell these for sure. I'd be looking for a second hand one in a few months or wait and see if the price comes down. The domed crystal on the back is absolutely ridiculous though, what is the point of that?

Coloured or lumed pips at 12hrs and 00 minutes might help with legibility... it could be another point of visual interest too, like watching orbiting satellites..

Imagine wearing that watch and someone asking you what the time is and you need to tell them to bogger off 🤔

i know you are not a ciga design fan BUT so lovable watch! i am waiting to get one! I adore your review; same if it is clear that you are not a fan of Ciga design philosophie, your review is very geniune and it let the design lover to love this watch and to the classic lover to know that it is not for them!! (FYI, it is not a seagull, it is a ciga movement, entirely create by them (inspire by the seagull intelligence but still, the movement technology belong to Ciga Design)

Let’s be honest most people don’t wear watches today just for the time. It’s stunning but at that price it’s unobtainable for most people. That’s sad since it’s quite beautiful and unique. Certainly a conversational piece that would take place if the price were more reasonable. Lovely review as always, cheers

I think it's rather lovely, and having the minute hand replaced by an hour sync internal bezel is cool. Hope they sent it to Producer Michael.

This is actually really cool! Yea the price takes it way out of my budget, but I've seen more expensive pieces with a lot less creative dials. Only complaint on the design is that big logo. That could have been integrated a bit better.

I'm impressed, they didn't miss Tasmania.

I'd love to get a flat-earther's perspective on this watch 😉😉

I love it. It’s pushing the design envelope and for what it is ie a novelty statement and a conversation starter. It’s perfect for that.

This is less of a mere watch but more of a clarion call to the rest of the industry, showing what China is aspiring to in terms of future innovation and technical prowess. Thus, it's very, very interesting.

Absolutely incredible detailed face of this one. I don't mind that it shows that particular part of our world. It would be neat if they did the Pacific model and an Atlantic model because I'd probably buy both as a set. Very interesting. I like it but not for that money.

An ingenious watch, refreshing, and kudos for going with an automatic movement. It’s pricey, but loving the domes. The Greenwash text is a fairly mainstream message nowadays, especially in Europe, not for me overall. Great video as always, v enjoyable.

I came to the same conclusion in my review as well Jody. These really are more art than watch. You can read the time, as long as you have good lighting conditions. But that's not really what this watch is all about. They do wear surprisingly well given the dimensions as well. Although I didn't know the price the would be asking for them when I did my review. I was expecting something more around the $500 mark.

Well, that's something you won't see coming at you on a busy sidewalk! Unique and very well put together.

“Unusable in certain circumstances….” Yeah, like when you need to look at your watch and tell the time.

I will wait vor the 100€ Pagani Design copy of the original china watch .... with Europ on the dial. But in general a nice idea.

I love the design and how unique and out of the world it is (slight pun intended lol), but I just wish that the watch case is slightly smaller without changing the size of that gorgeous Earth. It appears to be an elegant piece, so being smaller may have been better imo

Entertaining review, although I would point out that the watch focuses on the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific, and the absence of any representation of the Americas would probably limit its popularity here in the U.S. Now, can you do the WorldWatch V7 from Yes Watch for your next unusual one?

Unique piece! Looks great in your sped up footage…mesmerizing!

Watchfinder says on his video that it's really simple to read. In all honesty I find it very easy to read too, the numbers opposite the west compass point is the time.👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Being a big aviation nut I bought a Ciga Design "Aircraft Carrier" watch last year....very similar to the "Z" series but the hands are an aircraft and a missile....This makes it harder to read the time than the standard Z but I bought it coz I fell in love with it and still love wearing it. :)

It’s a shame they didn’t use larger numbers for the hour ring, and put a bit of red on the compass dial, that would of help the legibility? Also the world carving on the omega world timer is the best I have seen, the detail is amazing. I won’t be buying one of these, too much money for the internal movement.

That’s the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific my friend. Fabulous watch, I wish I could afford one. Keep up the great reviews, I really look forward to watching them. Kind greetings from Cumbria in the U.K.. stay safe and well.

This watch is way out there, but you’ve got to give kudos for thinking outside the box! I’ve been watching you for a couple years now, and I can’t begin to tell you how much enjoyment you’ve given me. Congratulations on what has to be the most successful KZfaq watch channel on the internet!!! Please don’t stop!!!

Great vid as always Jody! As to the watch, well, it's a nice "exercise" in creating something different and re-engineering but like you stated, this is not a piece you buy for actual time telling. I used to like watches like that, like Chronoswiss and their Regulateur, or any watches with unique complications. However, these watches are more of a talking point or niche, not practical for everyday use. Anyway, keep up the great work!

Great review! It's very rare that I watch a watch review video straight through, and I sure did for this one. Nice job!

There only benefit of being up at this hour is to catch JOMW video

Creative design. I’m not sure if I’d ever need one. But 4 of our kids live and work in Asia, so maybe they will want one.

Idea! Rather than a rotating semi dome, which is certainly eye catching, you employed a hi-tech dome that is fixed in place but displays as rotating. The surface is embedded with millions of addressable magnetic actuators. Controlled by a master map of the earth, you can display the Earth in any manner that a creative watch designer imagines. The actuators are physical bumps that rise up to create a true 3D surface. The actuators ate on/off devices but you can have dozens of height choices such as in mountainous areas. Color can be introduced by unlying a layer of micro LEDS of extremely efficient low power. The Earths axis can be anywhere, center, top. You can go all the way and have a dome on the bottom. So both hemispheres can be better displayed. Put in Bluetooth and you can download flight data from Flightaware and follow a flight. Just an idea.

You're right. It needs more AR coating. I can actually see you and your camera in the reflection during the outdoor shot.

Novelty watch. You said it best when you described it as such. So if you want a novelty watch I guess you’d have one if you bought one of these. Wouldn’t buy it for $99 meself never mind $999. Nice review as always Dad

That looks amazing! I kind of wish that they had gone with a perspective of the globe from the north pole, so that the rotation of the globe on the dial actually matched the rotation of the earth. (Maybe make a south pole dial version as well for people in the southern hemisphere).💡

Saw this reviewed a couple of weeks ago, didn't like it then and I still don't lol. My problem is that I just think that, for me,at least I like to be able to "tell the time" easily from a watch !! It's a great piece of "Art" but so is the Mona Lisa, but I don't want a miniature version of that on my wrist. Interesting but not for me, I'm afraid. Great review though, as always !!

I am a fan of Chinese watches. They still use a Myota or ETA movement at an affordable price. A time piece should be easy to read the time at a glance. Best watches are black hands on a white face. Then the dress style factor with colour and designs are a big factor with what to wear as a fashion statement. Then there are these 'Interesting engineering' conversation piece you wear to a party and ask people what time it is. I get a lot of comments on my 3 lighted column display. I can see what time it is as the numbers beside the column gets a lighted bar and by far the most interest. This watch is intriguing and people would also try to figure out how it works. But also would sit in my watch box for moths before getting used again at a social gathering which has been rare lately.

Hey Jody, that’s the Indian Ocean not the Pacific. A very interesting choice if the market is China. Absolutely mad bit of engineering.

I think this is an interesting development in watch design: let’s face it, we already know what time it is because of our phones so why not use the watch as a design statement instead of a practical machine?

This is a unique and beautiful watch! I would move a step forward and make it region specific or even country specific, and so on and on…. I would consider it as a desk/office clock though….Very nice review! Respectfully.

With the rotation of the globe they could do a North Pole and a South Pole edition and that would avoid messing with my OCD. Down under going up and over🤯

6:43 It's like the Earth and the Sun. Most people probably believe the Earth rotates through exactly 360° in one "Day", but it's more like 361° since the Earth also moves about 1/365th of the way around the Sun during that one day.

Was ready just to laugh out loud,but the pocket shot made it genuinely look interesting ,and not just a novelty.still can't quite make my mind up.lol

Audio was rough. Great review. Love the videos. Keep it up.

Listening to your careful and patient explanation of how to tell the time on this watch (I got completely lost, and I still don't get it), I was reminded of exactly how I felt in math class. Are you offering any remedial time telling lectures? I may not be able to graduate to the next video until I pass this one.

They've just found a creative solution to a problem that they generated in the first place - - Perhaps, it was just a genius marketing ploy (as it won the 2021 GPHG Challenge Watch Prize).

Very interesting. Not sure I would take it if someone gave me one. Just not for me. But great to learn about it in a classic JOMW review. Well done Jody! Merci!

Jupiter would be nice with the red dot as the marker.

Kind of ironic that the US and UK are out of the picture but, the middle of this map is where a US/UK joint Island military base is located called Diego Garcia.

Isn't it mostly the Indian Ocean? I don't think they have concentrated on the Pacific.

I was at work watching the GPHG and remember when they won the award for this watch and I fell in love with this piece! Please do a giveaway for this Jodi I'm dying to wear this! Buying it just isn't an option for me haha

If they ever design a more realistic/practical edition - *WOW*

They will only need to create different hour hand discs for the markets America and Europe and they'd increase sales there a lot.

They've not focused on the Pacific Ocean, but on the the Indian Ocean. I dig their chosen POV of our blue space ship.

You fancy selling yours Jody? Fellow Scottish collector here; on the fence about ordering for 2 reasons - that cost (including the tax added on top of $1000), and that unknown movement; who knows how easy it will be to service? I find it interesting every review I've watched skirts around or avoids the movement in any detail; something watch geeks normally fawn over and if anything sometimes pay too much attention to.

Nobody has asked me what time it is for many years. So, another great jewelry for men😄

+1 for the Super Mario T-shirt.

Nice, but I'd like to see a chronograph version!

I think we would miss the point if we concentrate on how the watch looks. By applying creativity and engineering, the company created a new movement that tells time in a very unconventional way. Look at the Freak Collection from Ulysse Nardin, it's not for everyone, but you can't help but to appreciate the engineering that went in to build such unconventional time piece. I see some of that in this watch.

I will wait for the Invicta Clone but otherwise a great gizmo watch that talks more than tells the time. My pilots watch was so complex and amazing I could not tell the time either but looks great on.

Different maps for your own country or continent would be a nice feature.

Another great review Jody. Love these addball watches!

Caseback is mineral crystal btw - not sapphire. Bit of cost saving there...

Hi Jody, Yes utter madness but I like it and as I watched you showing it I could tell the at a glance. Shame about the price. A dream watch for the collection that would get talked about at any gathering of people. keep up the good work.

Wow... That's interesting, at least. This watch is no longer a time-measuring device. It's more of an accessory, but it's totally cool.

What a bummer. The light glare was frustrating and I couldn't see what you were doing very well AT ALL!

9:02 ´They have concentrated on the Pacific.´ Erm.. that´s the Indian Ocean, Jodi...

Funny piece: If you don´t like it anymore you can just use it for skippin stones. I´d like to watch you doin this Jody ! At least it got the perfect shape.🤣🤣🤣

Just makes you wonder who's handing these awards out. This just looks to me how way out can you make a watch look. It's almost as daft as the price. Thanks for the review, great breakdown and description as usual.

I bought the Ciga skeleton Apple Watch type one. Got to admit I hardly wear it and this is the same sort of novelty. Erm… not falling down that hole again! 😕

Just a geography lesson in this one, I live in Perth Western Australia which happens to be on the watch so I can unequivocally tell you the ocean is the Indian 😊 , not the Pacific 🤣.

Very unusual! And a great exercise in "because we can" if not practicality. But beautiful none the less.

I like the attempts of the wacky watches it reminds me of the adaptable Citroen C3 Plurial.

They should do releases centered on different time / geographic zones. US centered, Europe centered, South America etc?

Rubber strap, high price, water theme and of course 10… wait what, 3 atm?!?! 🤨

Actually great to not see a North America centred map for once…fun watch!

They should've designed some focusing on different oceans. Would definitely have been more interested if I could actually see my country

Indian Ocean centric is weird too

That's nice, but yeah, I'm not paying that much for a crappy movement that may not last past the warranty period. I do like gimmicky watches - I sold a Seiko Think the Earth because I never wore it, had a Citizen Cosmosign for a while, and still have a Citizen Astrodea. Maybe they should stick a quartz movement in this one and sell it for a few hundred bucks.

Wait until they release the 'Moon' watch version lol!

Why show a movement that looks like that! Put a caseback on it, it's unique! Great review!

They should have made the pointer hand on the compass use to read the time far more prominent

Looks like something you get out them parrot machines at the seaside

That movement looks like it belongs in a Pagani Design rather than a $1000 watch!

Statement piece for sure

A pity there isn't a northern hemisphere version because I think the "Earth" is the best bit and if what you're getting isn't the bit you live on it's not so interesting. Definitely more a piece of kinetic art than a timepiece, at that price point there are a lot of nice Swiss watches to choose from.

I like different, I think it's beautiful 😍

Idk... I live on the opposite side of what the watch depicts on the dial, in sunny Florida USA.

$1200 USD Huh? In the last year or so for about that price I've bought a Cigadesign Z Series in Titanium, Xeric Halograph Chrono, Atowak Ettore Drift and a Biotic Formicidae. 4 gorgeous and fascinating watches all of them with a 'gimmick' yet all of them legible and readable and thus functional. The time reading gimmick on this Blue Planet isn't cool, it's just kind of difficult. 5 years ago $1200 would've made this a bargain, but the Microbrand market is so strong now and offers such good value that even $1200 starts to look a little pricey. If it's a choice between those 4 and this it's not even a competition in my mind, those 4, easy.

I don't think the steak is color matched at all especially when you see it in person as opposed to on camera. The strap feels excellent but the dull dusty blue is just not in a good look. It does look great in some other straps though. Just wish the strap that came with it was a bright blue like the dial/hand.

It's really too bad they didn't do a shot from the equator or the north pole. It seems like it might sell a bit better that way.

Hello Jody , congratulations !! :-D

Now that they have that movement in production, the sky's the limit in terms of what they can do with it. Perhaps a watch a little more conventionally designed that would be easier to read but with the same novelty. Side note -- I get super annoyed by brands that want to charge anything north of about $700 USD with less than stellar anti-reflective coating. I've purchased aftermarket crystals. The price difference in production is negligible when wrapped into the full cost.