Ask anybody, as well as they’ll contend a kids currently consider wristwatches have been a thing of a past: smartphones have been so much some-more “now.” WEWOOD’s wooden watches abstain touchscreens as well as brushed aluminum to welcome old-school craftsmanship as well as character.

Each watch costs about $120, as well as is done from Ebony, Maple, Guaiaco, or Red Wing Celtis woods. The Italian watchmaker’s design truth is “eco-luxury”: no synthetic or poisonous materials, make use of of rubbish and reclaimed woods at your convenience probable, and each watch purchased pays to plant the brand-new tree.

But often, WEWOOD says wearing a wooden watch from connects you not with a benefaction but time itself: “WEWOOD lets us rediscover inlet in its beauty, the morality and desirous pattern. It reminds us of the tree’s powerful approach of holdup; rooted, nonetheless reaching… It respects your skin as you apply oneself inlet by selecting it. Your WEWOOD Watch breathes a same air which you inhale as well as may incite memories from an additional time and place.” I theory that justifies regulating an all-wooden rope, that otherwise seems similar to it could be totally repulsive.

These watches (particularly a ones with the digital faces) remind me of a Futurama part “Obsoletely Fabulous,” where a robot Bender rebels opposite technology and replaces his metal physique with the wooden one.

You couldn’t unequivocally call these watches retro, since even a century ago, you didn’t usually make watches regulating so much wood. Maybe you could steal an analogy from grandfather clocks as well as call them “grandfather watches.” Or even (sigh) “steampunk watches.”

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WeWood: Watches crafted from reclaimed planks [Cool Hunting]