• February 21st, 2012

    Tokyoflash Releases The (Readable) Kisai Stencil Watch

    Thank heavens: finally a Tokyoflash that you can read immediately without depending on a manual or detailed instructions. The Stencil is a fan design that uses for LCD blocks to display the current time and date in a very “bubble letter” sort of way.
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    December 16th, 2011

    TokyoFlash On Air Touchscreen Watch: For The Space Robot In Your Life

    Another day, another Tokyoflash watch. This one, the On Air, has an LCD screen with backlight and you tell time by reading the numerical minutes read-out as it rotates around in place of the hour hand. It is, to be fair, pretty darn ingenious.
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    December 8th, 2011

    A New Tokyoflash Pocket Watch For The Tubercular Steampunk Dandy In Your Life

    Planning a trip around the world in 80 days? Spending some time with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? You’re going to need this $149 Tokyoflash, touchscreen pocket watch that, is as far as I can tell, unreadable by mere mortals.

    The watch comes in four colors and features a touch display to scroll through the dual-time, date, and alarm features. It’s cased in a nice steel case with mineral crystal cover and, with a bit of patience, you can learn what the heck this thing actually says. It has a back-lit LCD screen that drops into a “natural” color when unlit. → Read More

    July 22nd, 2011

    Right Angle LCD Watch Tells The Time But Tells It Slant

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    This TokyoFlash concept watch looks like it might be great for motorcyclists and other folks who have their wrists at eye-level most of the day. The watch has a digital display that is almost unreadable head on but appears, magically, when looked at at an angle. → Read More

    June 21st, 2011

    Tokyoflash Goes Rogue With The Kisai SR2

    Traditionally, Tokyoflash has offered watches without LCD screens. Focusing instead on LEDs, their watches usually lit up and glowed rather than maintained a standard time registration familiar with fans of standard LCDs. But that’s all changed, now, hasn’t it? The $179 Kisai SR2 Rogue features a selection of colored faces and uses a hybrid LCD/LED design. The LED lights the face while the LCD displays the time, a welcome respite from Tokyoflash’s traditionally bright and shiny faces. → Read More

    May 31st, 2011

    The Kisai RPM Tokyoflash Watch: Surprisingly Handsome, Made Of Acetate

    Acetate is the high-gloss material used to make glasses and other wearables. Tokyoflash has taken the material to interesting new heights with the Kisai RPM, releasing multiple versions of their “handmade” watch for $159. The links, case, and buttons are all hand finished and assembled and the odd limited edition colors look pretty darn cool.

    This watch is powered by a rechargeable batter so you’ll have to plug it in occasionally. Time telling is achieved by noting the large pips that signify hours, the smaller pips that show 5 minute intervals and then the smallest pips that show 1-4. If that’s hard to understand, this watch is probably not for you. → Read More

    December 8th, 2010

    The Kisai Satellite: More Crazy Tokyoflash Watches

    Another day, another crazy Tokyoflash watch. This model, called the Satellite, comes in black and white and separates the hours, minutes, and seconds into zones. It costs $94 and comes with a fancy rubber band. It recharges via USB. The lights spin every 15 minutes and are activated by a button on the side. The LEDs come in Blue or Green. → Read More

    November 23rd, 2010

    Black Friday Week: TokyoFlash Deals

    TokyoFlash is offering 50% off selected items and is also offering a 15% discount on all watches with the coupon code “BLACK” from on Nov 25-27. What can you get? Only some of the wildest watches on the planet earth, my friends. That’s all. Product Page → Read More

    September 22nd, 2010

    The Kisai Round-Trip Watch: USB-Powered Crazy Watch

    TokyoFlash has just released the Kisai Round-Trip, a colorful watch with a few tricks up its sleeve. The the $170 watch is USB-powered and you tell the time by reading the inside ring for hours, outer ring for three minute intervals, and two pips for individual minutes. It’s pretty rough to read. → Read More

    May 18th, 2010

    Kisai Round Trip watch: All that's missing is the fob and aluminum top hat

    There’s an old O. Henry story, The Gift of the Kisai that recounts a tale of a young man who sells his Kisai Round Trip LED pocketwatch to buy his wife a hairbrush and his wife cuts and sells her hair to buy her husband a pocketwatch chain. The story, a classic in the oeuvre of “how-the-other-half-lives” fiction, is heartbreaking in itself, but fear not: you’ll never have to go through those privations. There are plenty of $72 LED pocket watches to go around and their affordable for even those in relationships bathed in irony and penury. → Read More

    March 23rd, 2010

    TokyoFlash Escape C: Make Kisai Kisai with me!

    Yo, what’s up. You need to do your Skyping and your phoning and your music? Yeah? I got something for you. Come over here. Look at this. This is the TokyoFlash Escape C Kisai, a little Bluetooth thinger that connects to almost any device and routes audio and controls wirelessly. → Read More

    February 10th, 2010

    Tokyoflash shows off concept devices from the far future

    Our buds at Tokyoflash are running a concept contest and asking designers to send in their best renders. To date they’ve had some pretty interesting ideas like this odd-world one called the Time to Streamline: → Read More

    February 6th, 2010

    Congratulations to the winner of the Tokyoflash watch

    Just a wanted to post a quick note here, congrats to @DStoneburner, the winner of the Tokyoflash wristwatch contest. So good for you, @DStoneburner. Don’t say we never gave you anything. → Read More

    May 12th, 2009

    TokyoFlash is giving away watches

    TokyoFlash is giving away a watch to three winners of their TokyoFlash landmark contest. The rules are pretty simple: simply create an image of a famous horological landmarks redesigned with TokyoFlash faces i.e. Big Ben with the Rogue face built-in.

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    March 12th, 2009

    A plea from the future: Tokyoflash needs your help

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    March 3rd, 2009

    Tokyoflash Hanko reminds Emperor he is mortal, confuses us

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    February 17th, 2009

    Kisai Sensai watch: Don't expect to be able to read it.

    Tokyoflash strikes again, with yet another insane watch that’s almost impossible to read. The latest addition to their line, the “Kisai Sensai” is pretty much incomprehensible. → Read More

    January 21st, 2009

    Stylish Tokyoflash ‘Keisan’ watches look nice, require above-average math skills

    Ah, the Tokyoflash watches. We’ve covered them time and time again here on CrunchGear, yet I’ve never personally written about them since I haven’t had any experience with them yet. Well that all changed a few weeks ago during CES. → Read More

    January 6th, 2009

    Tokyoflash's first watch of 2009, the R75

    The guys over at Tokyoflash have just announced their first new watch for 2009, the R75. Unlike some of Tokyoflash’s other watches this one actually seems simple to read while still looking cool. Click on for a full gallery and more. → Read More

    November 25th, 2008

    Kisai Denshoku: Shinjuku hot nights

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