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Title: Deep inside the smart Swiss watches that challenge Apple Watch with analog panache Post by: HCK on April 24, 2015, 09:00:09 pm Deep inside the smart Swiss watches that challenge Apple Watch with analog panache
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Philippe Kahn is a big man with a big personality and big feelings about Swiss watches. He’s got a massive Alpina model on his wrist, and he’s bragging about how the watch is water-resistant down to 100 meters, and can last more than two years on its built-in battery.</p><p>He hands me a different Alpina. This one is for women. It’s smaller and more delicate with hand-set diamonds. Next Kahn celebrates a trio of watches from Frederique Constant, another Swiss brand. Their aesthetic is more deliberately urbane than a snifter of brandy. The fanciest of the three models has rose-gold plating that’s been polished to a concours-level shine.</p><p>Kahn didn’t design the watches, but he’s helping to bring them to market—and he’s very, very eager to explain what they represent. He’s the CEO of Fullpower (https://www.fullpower.com/), the company that developed the MotionX activity-tracking algorithms for the Nike Fuelband and the first three Jawbone UP wristbands. And now Fullpower is aiming to bring that same step- and sleep-tracking technology to real Swiss watches.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2912409/deep-inside-the-smart-swiss-watches-that-challenge-apple-watch-with-analog-panache.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Deep inside the smart Swiss watches that challenge Apple Watch with analog panache (http://www.macworld.com/article/2912409/deep-inside-the-smart-swiss-watches-that-challenge-apple-watch-with-analog-panache.html#tk.rss_all) |