Casio’s first sensible ring has modern options like a stopwatch and flashing alarm

To not be outdone by its longtime rival, Casio has introduced its personal digital ring watch that brings extra performance than Timex’s wearable that debuted final month. Created to assist commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Casio stepping into the digital watch enterprise, the CRW-001-1JR might be accessible in Japan beginning in December for ￥19,800, or round $128.

Though the tiny watch’s case is simply shy of being an inch in dimension, Casio has managed to squeeze in a retro six-segment LCD display that may show hours, minutes, and seconds. The ring additionally contains three useful buttons that may management further options like displaying the date or the time in a distinct time zone, and a stopwatch.

The ring watch’s display even has a lightweight, and an alarm operate that may flash the show as an alternative of taking part in an audible sound. It’s powered by a single battery that Casio says will hold the waterproof watch working for about two years however can be simply replaceable when it does die.

To precisely recreate the design and complex particulars of the bigger digital watches the ring relies on, Casio says the wearable is manufactured as a single piece utilizing a metallic injection molding course of that begins with powdered metallic. Because of this, not like Timex’s watch ring that features a stretchable band to accommodate completely different customers, the CRW-001-1JR is completely a US dimension 10.5. In case your fingers are smaller than that, Casio contains a few spacers to enhance the match. In case your fingers are bigger than that, you’ll want to seek out another strategy to verify the time.

Final yr, Casio released a collection of ring watches that includes designs impressed by a few of the firm’s most iconic digital timepieces from the previous 50 years. Sadly, none of them had been useful, so it’s good to see Casio following up with a hoop watch that truly works. For the seventy fifth anniversary, possibly we’ll even get a tiny calculator ring watch.