TIMEX x Wood Wood 38 mm "GET LOST" Watch in Black, September 2019
Hi. This is Alan. Thanks for your interest in these pages. I hope you will like it. Here, just in time for my favorite season (Autumn,) is the "GET LOST" TIMEX x Wood Wood of Copenhagen, encouraging us to indulge our "urge to disappear into the trees." It is a 38 mm matte black watch with a bead-blasted case, with a "hidden message" in the INDIGLO, a message encouraging us to GET LOST.
Pressing the crown to activate the INDIGLO shows the usual appearance, plus the "hidden" GET LOST message. It's kind of more fuzzy that the other markings, which is kind of cool.
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Image: Wood Wood, from Autumn / Winter 2019 Collection. The focus the collection is GET LOST.
The watch has a pull-through nylon NATO-type strap, with matte black hardware to match the case.
What is Wood Wood? From their website's "about us" section:
"Wood Wood is a contemporary fashion and lifestyle brand founded in 2002 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark. With its own stores in Berlin, Aarhus and Copenhagen as well as an on-line store, Wood Wood is directed by co-founders Karl-Oskar Olsen and Brian SS Jensen. As a sub-cultural founded lifestyle brand, its founders grew up with graffiti and street culture in the 90's where style was key. They mix high fashion, sports and streetwear with youth culture, art and music creating the best possible product balanced between style and function. Best described as Contemporary Streetwear..."
The watch is all-black, aside from the dial markings and hands. The case is "bead blasted," a form of abrasive blasting where tiny glass particles bombard the surface of the steel case, rendering it non-shiny, and somehow black. I have no idea how it becomes black. It is my understanding that there is no additional coating, and what you're looking at is the steel itself. This differers from PVD or "physical vapor deposition," where a coating is applied to the watch by allowing vaporized particles to adhere to the watch. PVD is a form of coating, just like gold plate and chrome plate are coatings. I am not an expert on metallurgy, but I believe bead-blasting creates a more durable finish.
Looking into the box, you see a pleasing graphic of a mountain, sunrise, and GET LOST. The Wood Wood site says the watch is "a timepiece inspired by the notion of exploration," with the hidden message "signaling the idea of disconnecting and getting lost in the frame of mind and nature."
Not bad ideas, especially for us city-slickers who could always use a walk in the woods.
The blackness of this watch. The lettering for the numerals is very simple, with simple dial markings at the periphery. TIMEX and W.W. signage. Hands are identical style (not sure about length) as on the 36 mm Original Camper. This watch is 38 mm.
In addition to INDIGLO, there are traditional luminescent hands. Dial isn't lume.
The crystal is mineral glass, is raised up at edges maybe 1.3 mm, and is totally flat across the surface. I love a glass crystal. Tradeoffs vs acrylic, the Pros: Won't ever yellow, harder to shatter. The Cons: any scratch that does develop is very hard to remove, and also glass might shatter on a certain impact, while the acrylic will deform, may scratch a bit, but rarely ruptures.
Strap hardware is also matte black. Not sure if it had the same bead-blasted treatment as the case, or some other process.
Just playing around the INDIGLO image on the image editor, inverting it, and giving it some autumn colors. Because why not.
It is one of the blackest TIMEX I've ever seen, and is really quite striking.
In a Danish forest, photo taken by iwandereIa.
