Bamford Neprosolar

BAMFORD LONDON REALISES THE FORGOTTEN 1970s NEPROSOLAR WATCH. Neprosolar, a solar-powered, rechargeable digital watch based on a forgotten concept watch from the 1970s, now backed by state-of-the-art electronic technology.

A single touch of the right activator illuminates the blue OLED display with an hour and minute display that can be set to 12 or 24-hour mode and that indicates seconds with a flashing colon; a second shows the day and month; and a third the power reserve, indicated by a series of four dots, which decrease as the power reserve is expended.

The battery has an approximate zero-to-full solar recharge rate of around 20 hours. If the display is activated 10 times a day without solar recharge, the battery will discharge in around 500 days. The Neprosolar is delivered in a stainless steel cylinder that releases from the top like a top-secret canister, wittily retelling the nostalgic, even paranoid story of the early high-tech age.

• TYPE: Bamford London Neprosolar
• CASE: 36.2mm Steel, 316l AAA black PVD
• CASE BACK: Steel, 316l AAA black PVD
• CASE THICKNESS: 11mm
• MOVEMENT: Quartz, rechargeable battery, solar-powered
• DISPLAY: OLED, blue
• FUNCTIONs: Time, date and power reserve indicator
• BATTERY LIFE: 10 hours to three years, depending on usage. Full recharge time 20 hours.
• GLASS: Mineral Crystal
• BRACELET: Multi-link black-PVD-coated stainless steel