Atari’s Limited Edition Asteroids Watch Tells Time With Orbiting Spaceships

Atari has released a postulation of caller watches pinch a unsocial creation that celebrates nan 45th time of Asteroids. In nan original type of nan crippled that debuted successful 1979, spotting and shooting a passing UFO would summation you different points. On nan Asteroids watch, a brace of orbiting UFOs are small of a threat and are alternatively utilized to correspond nan hr and infinitesimal hands — nary numbers needed.

Created successful collaboration pinch watchmaker Nubeo (which antecedently released a postulation of Space Invaders-themed timepieces) nan caller Asteroids postulation features 5 styles, each pinch a different colored group – nebula blue, plasma pumpkin, supernova red, nova nightfall, and celestial citrine – and varying colors for nan watch look elements. They’re disposable done Nubeo’s website, which lists each watch’s worth arsenic being discounted to $499 from $1,650. You tin too bid them done Atari’s website, which conscionable lists nan worth arsenic $499 each, though immoderate personification already sold out. Each style is constricted to conscionable 125 pieces.

The watch uses a Japanese automatic activity that powers 3 spinning discs. The smallest features a recreation of nan game’s elemental triangular spaceship successful nan halfway that serves arsenic nan watch’s 2nd hand, while 2 larger discs, rotating astatine different speeds, correspond asteroids drifting done abstraction and nan UFOs that usability arsenic nan hr and infinitesimal hands.

All of nan graphical elements connected nan Asteroids watch’s look are printed pinch glow-in-the-dark “Swiss Super-LumiNova” pigments and are protected beneath a durable sapphire lens and a stainless alloy case. The watch is h2o resistant pinch a 21 ATM (atmosphere) opinionated and a screw-down crown, making it durable tin for recreational diving. It comes successful a protective suit pinch an interior that borrows creation elements from nan Atari Video Computer System (VCS) that launched successful 1977.