This doesn’t look real. And right now, it isn’t — but a startup named Kairos claims that it will be shipping the first versions of its stunning mechanical-digital hybrid smartwatch in December of this year. If that actually happens, it could dramatically close the gap between the two oft-opposed forces — tech and fashion — that are driving the market for wristwatches today.
The Kairos MSW and SSW models combine actual self-winding watch movements (Japanese on one model, Swiss on the other) with a transparent color OLED display to give you a “real” watch when you just want a fashion statement with full-on smartwatch capability — notifications, fitness tracking, and so on — when you need it.
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