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Azimuth Roulette Watch: With Real Gambling Action!

Are you ready for this watch novelty from Azimuth? A few years ago Girard Perregaux released its working slot machine watch, and around the same time Daniel Roth had announced his dice playing watch. The theme of gambling watches continues now with the Roulette watch from Azimuth which features a working roulette wheel. Press in the die shaped crown and the small white ball on the roulette wheel begins to spin - randomly stopping on one of the numbers. How cool is that?

Aside from the roulette function, the watch clearly tells the time via easy to read partially skeletonized hands and a spinning roulette wheel's spinning handle that serves as the seconds hand. The case is uniquely cut in a very angular design probably meant to look like a roulette table. As whimsical novelty watches go, this is up there on "well done" list. Inside the watch is a modified ETA 2824-2 automatic mechanical movement. The stainless steel watch case is 45mm x 34mm and is ergonomically designed to fit snugly on the wrist. The rear of the watch reads "BEAT THE CASINO" optimistically, as the face of the watch is fitted with sapphire crystal as well as a balance wheel porthole on the rear of the watch.

5000 Azimuth Roulette watches will be available starting at the end of 2009, when they will be released to celebrate the "grandest' Casio in Asia's opening in Singapore. No doubt this is an apt watch for the occassion.

Ariel Adams publishes the popular watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Gallery: Azimuth Roulette Watch

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Mazda Limited Edition Chronograph Watch

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Filed under: Timepieces / Watches, Luxury Cars & Autos

Mazda has done watches before, but not quite like this one. Working with German watch maker Sinn Spezialuhren Frankfurt, Mazda is releasing a limited edition watch chronograph that was specifically designed and created for Mazda. Many features of the watch were inspired by and can also be found on Mazda vehicles, such as the rounded square theme found in the air intake, tail lights, and door handles, and the silicon rubber watch band shares its design with the tires on the Mazda Hakaze. It will be available in Europe in mid-August of this summer for about $2000.

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