Showing posts with label Time Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Time Design. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Time Design Zirconium

Today's watch is the 3rd in my collection of Time Design watches. Looking back, I think that Time Design were the first of the 'mystery' watch brands in my collection, as I've known about the brand since early in my collecting days, but still know very little about them.

The Time Design brand has been around since at least the late 90s (if my memory serves me correctly), and produce metal cased watches in a similar style to Storm. In my previous posts I've been mistaken about the names of the watches as they are named after metals, which I'd thought was part of the material they were made from. The watches are identified by the Time Design logo which is a combination of T and D, but looks like a curly D.

This watch is called Zirconium and is an analogue quartz model. It has a 3 hand dial design in a metal case with a futuristic look. The dial has no bezel, with the glass and face going right to the edges of the watch, but the case does show at the top and bottom where it goes towards the strap connectors. The strap is a metal design with a long curved solid first section and the typical Y-shaped connections for the rest of the strap. The dial is light blue brushed metal with concentric light blue rings, and the hour markers are raised metal blobs. The brand logo is well represented on the watch, being found on the case, both ends of the strap, the strap connector, and the watch back, and the Time Design name is also found all over the watch too.

My guess for the age of the watch is that it comes from the early 00s (but it may well be earlier), and it is a pure guess as there is no real information on the watch to suggest an age.

Friday, 13 September 2013

Time Design Purple Dial Watch - Gallium

When you collect watches for a while, you find many low price interesting watches, and they often have common manufacturers.

The Time Design brand (or range?) is one that I've come across for a long time, but have been unable to find a real history of the watches. Their watches are usually metal designs with solid link straps, and they remind me of the Storm watches. The brand has a logo which looks like a curly D but actually is a combination of T and D, and this logo can be found on the face, buckle, and back plate.
The watch is a 3-hand dial with main hands which are both designed as an outline of an arrow. The dial is set deep into the metal case.
There is little watch information on the back - only that the back is made of gallium stainless steel, and the straps are stainless steel.

CORRECTION (May 2015): After looking at my other Time Design watches, I've realised they are named after metals, so this watch is called Gallium and made of stainless steel. 

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Time Design red LED

This watch today is by Time Design. They were one of the first unusual watch designers I found on the internet, back in the time when my collection was very small. Unfortunately, I thought can't find anything about them on the net (as the words Time Design gets too many hits).

This watch is an LED illuminated LCD display rather than a true LED watch. It has only a basic module, having only time, date, and seconds display options. It does however use a lot of power, being powered by two AG12 batteries!