Kickstarting "The Inverter," a backwards watch with a beautiful, exposed movement

The Inverter is a kickstarted, sub-$500, 34mm automatic mechanical watch built around Citizen's Miyota Calibre 9000 movement, augmented with a custom module that makes the watch run backwards, so that it can be mounted so that the movement is exposed, with the back of the watch becoming its "Face." It's the kind of high-end novelty watch that normally sells as a super-luxe item for $20K and the team behind it, the folks from Watchismo have a long track record of building excellent timepieces This is a beautiful precision machine produced for no reason apart from the sheer aesthetic joy of exposing a complex and ingenious mechanism, and while $500 is a steep price for ornamentation, producing a watch to this spec at that price is actually a rather magnificent achievement The watch has lots of nice gracenotes, like an easily-swapped band, 3ATM of water-resistance, a selection of colors and a super luminous dial.

My grandfather was a watchmaker and I grew up playing with his movements, tools and workbench It's a bandwidth issue that's tough to hack, even with the relatively recent rise of 5.0 Bluetooth tech The result: Frantic searches for the right item or garment, and a sloppy trash bag to hold those dirty clothes. Source