Was fully expecting a price in the thousands of dollars. For $380 there's no way I'm not going to add this to my collection as soon as possible!

This might be one of the coolest things I'd never spend 400 bucks on.

Extraordinary price and battery life: pretty sure it’s worth buying just for the WTF factor. Good find, Andrew!

I think this is probably the only watch/time-telling instrument that I'd ever set to 12-hour mode. What an absolutely awesome piece!

Oh boy I want this real bad. Going to have to add it to my list. I'm a sucker for these kinds of things. While actually reading the time isn't this watches forte, I have other watches for that. And as a guitarist, anything with analog tubes in it tickles my fancy especially hard. What a cool little gizmo.

There was a wide range of novelty watches in the early 2000s that represented time in different fashions. This reminds me of those.

I just interviewed an applicant to my engineering college. He built a watch that tells the time in base-4. Rather than numbers, he displays the time on a 4 by 4 grid. I gave him a positive score.

Love the idea. These different ways of time telling are interesting, especially when they highlighted with craftsmanship. I’d enjoy seeing more. Thanks 🙏 for the great vids 👍

You just keep getting better and better and better: "magnet on a stick" - love it!

That's a tenth the price I would have expected tbh

Scientist here (or wizard if you prefer): Yes there are orange VFDs but they do not contain a gas, those orange ones are neon bulbs, the blue one is probably the VFD part (notice that the light comes from the coating on one of the elctrodes, rather than from the gas sorrounding it, in fact a VFD has vacuum inside).

This channel just keeps getting more and more interesting. Thank you!

What a cool watch. And you explained the technical stuff so good.

Only $380?! While it isn't my style, the wow factor in and of itself is enough to justify. I was totally expecting it to be priced north of $1k, so this is certainly a welcome feature.

Love it! Please continue with other quirky watches.

VFDs are so frickin cool. Vintage hifi gear on your arm. I’m in love.

I love this, please bring more informative content like these❤️

Awesome review. More like this, please. Thanks!

I own this watch and I have to say, it is really impressive, unique and really fun to wear. Telling the time is getting easier as you get accustomed to it. Becomes second nature and boy does it turn heads and start conversations.

Great segment. Would love to see more of this.

I was gutted when I saw this, went to the website, and saw that they were all sold out. Fortunately they just opened orders on the next batch so I managed to snag one. Looks wonderful.

Perfect timing!! I played with these a couple of weeks now and am publishing the unboxing and tutorial this Sunday. Also, the BIG boy sadly ISN'T 50mm, as that would be wearable, HUGE, but wearable. It actually measures 55x17mm!!! It is GIGANTIC!!

This thing is fascinating! And reasonably sized and priced too…I want one! I’ve been a fan of the retro look NIXIE tube tech for a while now. Ever since they were first shown on the Techmoan channel. And yes, make more videos about quirky timepieces like this 👍

I really like this. Certainly a novelty and worth having in a collection. Definitely added to my list.

I would be tempted to pick one of these up just because of how unique it is, but I feel like I would spend all day staring at it and get nothing done. It is very cool though, I will give it that.

That was really neat. I was waiting for the sticker shock at the end and was very pleasantly surprised.

Already sold out 😂 I absolutely love that WFC is highlighting some really interesting, creative and affordable microbrands. Could watch this all day.

Doubt I'd buy one given how hard it would be to read/use daily, but definitely an interesting piece to see. Definitely keep reviewing ones like this...way better than another clip of a sub clone of a sub clone.

Beautiful piece!! My goodness

Just preordered the next batch. Thanks!

Great Time Machine! Love the theme, the tech, how mesmerizing the piece really is. I use tube amps on my sound system so I can appreciate this watch. Let’s see more of these!!

Awesome reviews! Always informative and entertaining. Can you review the Sbge 275 from GS, she's quite the beauty!

Very cool watch for a very good price, not very good for actually telling the time but definetly a really cool accessory and a great conversation starter. Definetly want to get myself one of these in the future.

I fully expected you to say it cost 4 thousand, not 4 hundred!

Beautiful. Instantly visited the manufacturers site and preordered for the next available manufacturing wave.

I am truly enjoying this branch of the videos. A little weird? A little affordable? That's my jam!

Way back in the early 70s my dad and I went over to spacecraft in Orlando, they got all of the old computers and electronics from NASA cape Canaveral and we bought a old UNIVAC computer console that had 1500 of those lights on the display panel so cool we used it for a handwriting analysis for the carnival business! It was a great show piece

Definitely fascinating. Place my vote in the “more interesting / weird stuff” column. Well done.

Looks Great! The Devon also has an amazing watch with belts thats pretty quirky

Yes! Unique pieces are what I love!

I own both niwa nixie version 1 and 2 and they look absolutely awesome.

More quirky watch’s! This was great!!

This watch is very unique! Thanks for the video.

More content like this, please.

What fortuitous timing, lately I've been binging these videos and learning about VFD displays, wondering if perhaps a watch like this existed. Thanks for this excellent video!

Definitely liked this content

I adore this content and intend to buy one cause of this video. Let’s be real: none of us here need our watches for the time. I just love the design and brilliant engineering in watches. This and the Devon Tread 2 I really enjoy

I like this new love for quirky pieces and usually the unusual for the channel. But can we have the Omega chronochime 1932 somehow, please? I know it’s early but still

An anode is the positive Cathode is the negative An easy way to remember is : "I got an A+ in electronics but a C- in maths" (or whatever..) However. In terms of current, it actually runs from the negative to positive, but in traditional electronics, we always calculate voltage running from the positive going to the negative.

Sold out.... Great job...

Another great video. Thumbs up. With a quirky watch. I would love to have it on my desk.

Magnet on a stick is common in explosive environments. Like gas detection controllers. We used them at a job I worked at. Pretty cool. Most people had trouble understanding it for some reason

This is really cool and the flattery charging and flattery life make it really quite functional

I am a sucker for nonstandard time displays and I honestly have to say I need one of these.

Super! Thank you very much!

😵‍💫 Hypnotizing Thanks for sharing.

I love this weird gem. Thank you.

New viewer of your channel. Please DO feature more of the unusual timepieces available for under a thousand dollars. I am fascinated by the "unusual". Thank you.

I haven't understood how to read this watch but it's mesmerising !

It’s definitely very cool and I enjoyed the video. It’s a reasonable price too even though it’s not something I’d immediately want to go out and buy.

Welp, that's me signed up for a pre-order notification. That thing is phenomenal.

Interesting watch ....cool timing of ages...thank you for showing us this

That's the coolest little watch...I really like that.

What a gorgeous watch, I love it.

This watch appears to be an interesting novelty. As for myself it is not a type of watch I would want to use since I need my watch for telling time at a quick glance. It is obvious this watch uses a microcomputer with a controller run by software, and uses voltage inverter circuits to generate the necessary voltage level to illuminate the gas filled tubes. Fairly sophisticated. It is using micro reed switch, or Hall device sensing technology to respond to the magnet that is used to set the watch. The small tubes are using Neon Gas. The part number is NE2. Used to be very commonly used in electronic devices. Still used in some types of specialized illuminated switches and indicators. The blue illuminated tube on the right has been used as a power indicator lamp. I cannot remember the part number. It is not commonly used any more. If I remember correctly it was using a gas combination of argon with mercury vapour. The NE2 indicator light triggers on at 63.5 Volts. If AC is applied both elements inside will appear to be lit. It is the cathode side that lights up. With DC the negative side becomes the cathode. It takes a minimum of 400 uA (400 micro Amps) at 63.5 Volts to excite the Neon gas inside of the NE2 lamp.

This is the watch that will start my collection

it's refreshing to be surprised by a new style of watch, not only quirky and interesting, actually affordable for those with modest means. I'm sure this a a occcasional segment that would prove to be very popular.

I ordered one a while back, now waiting patiently for it to arrive.

God ... this really is the most beautiful Watch ive ever seen. wearing an ";ED Matrix Watch" for 20 years and this one is just wonderful.

I would love to see a segment on nixi tube watches! either in this format or a talk with your buddy and maybe Matthew Taylor of Techmoan? Thanks

Love the xenon blue

Cathode is the -ve end, anode is the +ve end. Electrons flow from - to +, but what we call current is actually flowing from + to -.

That was a bit different if nothing else,, a bit of fun at least and I just might have to get one. I am sure it's a conversation starter at the pub.

It has that techie touch, like my BCD clock that nearly no one else can read, yet it is affordable too!

Interesting content. Keep up the good work on your channel. Regards, WR4K.

Great video as always. Can you review "Cuervos y Sobrinos" watches?

No, absolutely no more of this sort of content ! It's just too interesting and novel and surprising and informative and quirky and fun and enjoyable. I want ever more excruciating detail about the latest differences between historic Rolex model numbers. If there is a change in colour of the typeface on the dial of a limited edition of an obscure Rolex model, I want an hour of close-up macro shots and a doctorate-level essay on the technology used to mix the new paint and a live panel discussion at a specially-convened international symposium to decide if it is more a reddish-brown, or a brownish-red colour. Rolex is my entire world, and I don't want to see or read or hear about anything besides my lord and saviour, Rolex (hallowed be thy name).

Stunning, I love the idea but setting the time will stress me out.

To answer you question your question about why vfd's are not lightbulbs, it's because they're not exactly not lightbulbs. It depends on what your definition of a lightbulb is. VFD's are similar to some things people would normally consider lightbulbs, like fluorescent lamps. Which work on a kinda similar concept. A VFD will have a cathode, which you drive current through and create electrons due to something called thermionic emission (just a fancy way of saying you get something really hot and it emits energy), and an anode, which is coated with phosphor and it fluoresces when hit with said electrons. A fluorescent lamp works by driving current through mercury vapor contained in the "bulb" which then creates ultra violet light that hits the phosphor coating on the glass and create visible light. The difference is in the mechanism by which the high energy particles of choice get to the phosphor material. But yeah, they convert electricity to light, and their purpose is to create light instead of like, heat. So it's basically a light bulb. On a side note, if these truly are VFD tubes, there should not be any gas in them, hence the vacuum part of the name. Just phosphor, a tungsten filament (probably) and a graphite (probably) anode. You're thinking of nixie tubes.

By this watch is the design and functionality hIgh intressted. I think tis watch look so beauty a litle steampunk! Werry nice!

Would make a cooler clock & give you that year-round Christmas feeling.

Of u really want to confuse hem then listen to my theory on takeons an oragon energy . Well the axon particle has a access point the access point has a charge positive and negative the particle itself has a charge flip around the access point you get Oregon energy flip around again you get chi.

A magnet on a stick. This is one cryptic and cool tshirt idea.

Wow!! Mesmerising!! Interesting!!

Cool. Good job

amazing... just wondering how it is charge. Thank you.

This is mesmerizing...

The company that makes this watch has been putting out the most incredible designs for many years. Each watch must be learned and none of them are traditional. Good luck picking the one you want first. This will change your watch game.

So cool. Really like the idea. Show me the person who came up with this great idea.

Add a minute repeater function and you will have the coolest watch ever yet never know the time.

Glass vaccum tubes that small is mindblowing.

I love the cathode and anode "or something". Cathode is negatively charged and Anode is positively charged, usually...or something. 🙂

Really giving new watchmakers some love.

Only the blue tube is a vfd, the others are neon bulbs

Wow, that's really cool and if I had the extra $$ I'd love to add one to my collection. In a way it's similar to and reminds me of the Back to the Future aatch. No not the Casio calculator watch, the really cool flux capacitor watch 😋 . Like this you tell the time on it by pushing a button and then you count the number of times each cathode ray tube flashes for the hours minutes and seconds 😀 .. on the flip side of that coin my birthday is in a couple weeks and who knows, maybe Santa Claus will hook me up with one of these watches for Christmas? 🤔 ..

From my understanding, the difference between a lightbulb light and fluorescent light is due to residence time of the electrons in excited states; where the electrons that produce fluorescent light have longer residence times than the electrons of a lightbulb, which are caused by spontaneous emission!

Excellent video; I’ve watched it twice to get all the details about this fascinating watch. Now off to their website to invest more of my hard earned in one of these eccentric, but scientific, little beauties. But they’re sold out. Bugger. So another wait list now has my name on it!

Amazing. I love seeing these completely strange watches. Would consider buying.

These work much the same way as those little lightbulbs that look like flicker flame or the little red light on a coffee maker button or a power strip, fascinating stuff. Only downside I can see to this would be when the bulbs begin to go out, if you've ever had a power strip with the little light you'll know when they go out they "flicker" (those little flame lights are purposely designed wrong to make them do the exact flicker) BUT its not going to be anytime soon Id imagine. Cool watch though I imagine it would be quite a conversation starter.

Fantastic, more quirky watches would be welcomed