Competition ended!

The winner is Niall Bergin (through Facebook).

Hello guys,

yes we admit: we have been lazy about updating our blog lately, and we’re very sorry about it. Over the last couple of months we had been working on new models, whereas only the tip of the idea-iceberg makes it to production. The reason is that we want to make sure the final product perfectly works out, not only on the paper & in our heads, but also in the real world. This involves some testing and trial & error, therefore it can be time-consuming.

ZIIIRO Celeste is the first to break ground. It not only combines two of the previous models into a new one, we could also improve it in certain details – and when we held it in our hands for the first time, we were happy as kids on Christmas, they are so beautiful… see for yourself.

ZIIIRO Celeste is available for pre-order in the shop now, and starts shipping Nov. 18th

Theme of new contest is based on “Colors” because We love colors! Simply take a photo of something colorful in your life and send us your picture with the subject “CONTEST” to: contest@ziiiro.com

We will choose two winners with the most creative, colorful and beautiful picture. Each winner will receive a special limited edition Mercury Gunmetal watch (wow.. only 2 produced in the whole wide world!)

The photos submitted will be added to a contest album on our Facebook page.

Check out our contest tab on Facebook. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook!

Summer is approaching! It’s getting warmer and your wrist watches will stop hiding and crawl out from beneath your sleeves. We’re sure that the fresh looking colored GRAVITY’s will let you be prepared for spring and summer We just took some new photos and want to share them:

Pre-order is now open for the below watches:

• Gravity Snow-White (EUR110)
• Gravity Snow-Green (EUR120)
• Gravity Black-Ocean (EUR120)
• Gravity Black-Red (EUR120)

We will ship the above models starting from May 20th, 2011.

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!

Some photos below, watch this space for updates!

We are overwhelmed by the response and our team is trying our best to process all orders.. in fact we are working over Christmas to get everything shipped! We packed our first shipment of the watches yesterday, below is a picture and these are just 1/4 of everything :O

If we are slow in replying to inquiries, please forgive us since we’re working overnight to get the watches delivered!

So, if there are any questions, just write them down in the comments.

I’ll start with some recurring ones:

Q: How do i know if ZIIIRO Gravity fits my wrist?
A: It fits on wrists with a perimeter of 15 cm (loose fit) and above. The metal is flexible and goes back to it’s initial shape, but you can slightly change that initial shape by bending it.

Q: Why is there no seconds disc on ZIIIRO Mercury anymore?
A: We decided to remove it after all – it didn’t look very good because the distance to the discs under it was too big and we couldn’t chnage that.

Q: Is ‘Mercury’ also interchangeable just like ‘Gravity’?
A: Nope.

Q: Do you also sell seperate straps or clock bodies?
A: Not at this point of time, because it is too difficult for us to have so many different parts right at the start.

Q: How do i know that the clock body of ‘Gravity’ doesn’t rotate and shows a wrong time when i insert it?
A: You can’t insert it wrong, you can only put it in with the crown pointed to the right side, and you can set the time, using the crown as reference.

Q: Are you offering seperate straps or clock bodies of ‘Gravity’?
A: Not at this point of time, we just started, it would be too difficult for us in terms of stock items. Maybe later, when we can handle bigger quantities.