Oh dear.

That is unfortunate.

strider_mt2k

craptacular...

I was expecting to see blobs of hot-glue...

bpapa9013

I just wanted to add my voice and express in words the absolute garishness, utter failure, ridiculousnesses and pure abomination that this piece of shit represents.

It's like a plastic fish tank lamp with scrolling background from 99c store. Or a rubber darth vader mask with rubber bands in the back and cloak that's as big as a napkin...

Gahhh!!! My eyes burn!

future-proof

Let's see. Victorian Age Fail...

Steampunk is basically a what-if on the steam age of the Victorian age. What if steam-powered carriages had taken off, etc. This looks like someone bedazzled a watch and some gears to a leather cuff they had left over from an SCA event.

Xavoc

wow, that's hawt. Does Fossil make a version without all the gears and screws?

qbrad

Ummm, considering steampunk is based on the fashions of the 1800s, no self-respecting steampunkian would ever carry anything except a pocket watch. Not to mention the fact that any classic-looking watch that had to be wound would already be the equivalent of steampunk.

Fail.

GeekyNerdGuy

@RoboChop: SOLIDCAKES. :)

SinAmos

This is like sticking a digital clock on your computer and calling it a digital computer.

RoboChop

Hey, it is actually STEAMPUNK this time around. I'm proud of you GIZ. You finally did it right, but on that note; this piece is weak sauce in a blender filled with tacky, cut and paste style. The watch is just put on top.

SinAmos

Is that a woman's watch?

Keebler

Wow. that IS pretty crappy. The gears look sad. Sad, and depressed.

Fail.

Kaveh

False. You could sell these to any Abercrombie or Holister in the country and make a killing.

praevalesco

Fugly! Burn it with Fire!

EBone

Here's the place for great, original SteamPunk watches by Haruo Suekichi-- you gotta read japanese, though.

If you want to read a writeup of the artist, there's a pretty good article about him.

ninjagin

@tex1ntux: But didn't Will Smith do WWW2...

sfokevin

The steampunk fad peaked with Wild Wild West.

The only thing that could bring it to a new high is Wild Wild West 2.

tex1ntux

Id like to see this guy attempt to get something out of his pocket. Fagtastic.

aeroworks

Maybe I would like it if it lets me travel back in time to beat the person who made this horrible horrible watch. Oh and writstband watches should die all together!!

marc_wtih_a_c

@ninjagin: Holy shit, those are cool! I want!

Josh_Geyer

A modern (analog) POCKET watch, making absolutely NO pretense of being vistorian has far more Steampunk cred than this IMHO. I mean it doesn't even have a hinged cover for the face...

OddManOut

Bu...what?

Normal watches have plenty of steampunk cred, why does one need to make a clock more clockwork?

Alchemistmerlin

Yeesh... looks like what would result if Captain Jack Harkness and John Cameron Swayze took a licking together.

infmom

What's is that...the Walmart Steampunk line?

smegz

Steampunk watch?

Watches already worked without steam power!

justhesh

Sticking sh*t all over other sh*t is not Steampunk. It's scrapbooking.

AdmNaismith

lol, no bids.

tommo

first of all, I dont think they were dumb in the Victorian Era, so I doubt they used bent gears.

Second, a watch already uses gears and such to run, you can make it steampunk.

redkamel

actually there are more of these on this "artist" website...
before going there be warned it's traumatizing experience for anybody with a sense of aesthetics.

[www.olgaclockworks.com]

nottekangaru

Does the watch look photoshopped onto the wristband only to me?

DaSmith

@DaSmith: That would be awesome, as it would mean that this...thing...doesn't really exist.

@nottekangaru: Every offering a swing and a miss.

Most unfortunate.

strider_mt2k

Extra-lame. It wouldn't even take that much to salvage this piece, you know? Get ahold of some spiral seashells, encrust the gears with some salt and barnacle-like growths, incorporate the seashells, and you've got a salvaged-steampunk look. It would still be half-assed, but at least it would stand apart from the hundreds of people trying to capitalize on steampunk's surge of popularity. The people making a real killing right now? The Ebay vendors selling watch parts.

Animakitty

I'm not sure if steampunk is currently cool or if it's played out or if it's still "underground,"

i thought it was played out and well out of the underground before Gizmodo ever even had a "steampunk" tag let alone by the time it beat the horse thoroughly to death.

if anything. this pathetic attempt is just confirmation how uncool it really is. surprised it isn't on water skis.

x23

More like clockpunk than steampunk.

[en.wikipedia.org]

lordargent

"Steampunk" just jumped the shark.

What's punk about the whole "steampunk" thing anyway? Is that punk as in prison bitch, or punk as in safety pins through the nose? It doesn't even make sense either way.

middy

You make me proud, Adam Frucci.

collider

@SinAmos: What do you mean by that? If you mean to say that Giz has been calling things steampunk when they actually aren't, then you picked the wrong article, because that would technically be categorized as clockwork or clockpunk rather than steampunk.

Anyways, I agree it's not very well done.

dekigo92