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Mar

ZIIIRO AURORA PREVIEW

Hello Everyone!

We have been busy recently developing a new model launching in the next few months. Name of the watch Aurora comes from ‘Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights’ – a natural light display observed at night particularly in the polar regions. We chose this name due to its color resemblance on the clock face (green-blue-yellow) of our new watch.

So can you even read time on that thing?? Good question :) You bet we have an answer for you too.

Displaying the time on Gravity and Mercury was performed using a combination of two swirls (hour and minute). What we are experimenting on Aurora is to reduce both swirls into a single element without taking away any functionality from the watch. Hour indicator which is on the bottom layer uses a 100% to 0% blue gradient and the Minute indicator uses a 100% to 0% yellow gradient. Overlapping both layers create a color mixing result thus producing an ever changing clock face color! It allows the user to learn a new way of interpreting time by understanding mixture of different colors.

(Top picture left: 5:17 am/pm – bottom layer blue (100%) is near the 5o’clock position and green (100% yellow mixed with blue) is at the 17 mins position)

And not to forget, this model is fully interchangeable with the Gravity so for those who purchased before, get this clock for mix and match! ;)

There's 22 Comments So Far

  • aaron
    March 22nd, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    When will they be available?

  • Derick
    March 22nd, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    We are expecting a release around end of April, 2011 if everything goes smoothly.

  • aaron
    March 22nd, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    Will there be a pre order period?

    Thanks

  • Grant Wall
    March 22nd, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    Well, I guess it’s a good thing that I haven’t been able to get my Gravity yet, these look pretty awesome too.

  • jatin
    March 22nd, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    isnt the time on the last watch 4 :10???

  • Derick
    March 23rd, 2011 at 5:53 am

    @ Jatin: time on last watch is 1:21 because the minute disc with 100% yellow is standing at the 21minutes area. so the other one must be the hour at 1o’clock

  • Mike
    March 23rd, 2011 at 9:26 am

    This is simply an excellent master piece, keep up the good job, and don’t forget, you guys have many fans supporting you out there! ;)

  • George
    March 23rd, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Wow takes a while to get used to but looks funky! Is there any ideas on how much it will cost when it comes out?

  • Nic
    March 24th, 2011 at 5:21 am

    Wow these are sick! But I’m interested in the mercury, are anynew colours going to be coming out soon? I need to decide whether Or not to just order one now or wait until there is more selection, then ship it to Canada

  • Derick
    March 24th, 2011 at 9:03 am

    @Nic: Nope, there are no plans in release new colors for the Mercury soon.

  • Ilya
    March 24th, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    Hello, Derick, can you mail me about wholesale order? art.strass@gmail.com

  • Thomas
    March 24th, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    nice! keep it up!

  • Nic
    March 29th, 2011 at 5:05 am

    Ok, thank you. I’ll be ordering soon!

  • Nicolas
    April 4th, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    This watch is squarely incredible! I wait its release! Beautiful work.

  • Aaron
    April 5th, 2011 at 2:00 am

    Still thinking about the late april launch? any idea on pricing?

  • Thomas
    April 5th, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    Can you post some sample how is the watches work?

  • Mike
    May 2nd, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    @ Jatin… I agree. The last watch is reading 4:05 ish. I think these guys are morons if they are making fun of people who can’t read the time on their watches when they themselves can’t!

  • Robert
    July 20th, 2011 at 10:52 am

    No, it isn’t Jatin & Mike… and there’s no reason to be rude Mike.

  • Alessandra Calado
    July 22nd, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    I wonder where you have a physical store that I buy the watch ziiro Aurora

  • Dan
    September 6th, 2011 at 10:21 am

    do you ship in the philippines? im crazy about this….

  • Jas
    November 9th, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    Why do all of them look so girly.. for the ones which have a decent Mens version kind of dial, the strap seems pretty feminine.. Is there a dedicated Mens watch selection?

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