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The Most Depressing Watch Ever

gizmodo.com — This watch has been dubbed the "Accurate" not so much for its abilities to keep accurate time, but for its reminder about our inevitable demise. Following in the tradition of memento mori, the Accurate watch continuously alerts us to the fact that life is short and that we should strive to seize the day.

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  • jasonsalas, on 03/29/2008, -3/+81how Shakespearian (and metallican): "you've been dying since the day you were born."
    • BryanTravers, on 03/29/2008, -2/+21"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
    • Arch83, on 03/29/2008, -0/+4I think Lisa Loeb also had a hit with that line in it.
      • jasonsalas, on 03/29/2008, -0/+5"...dyin' since they day they were born. well, well." classic! good catch!
    • eohano, on 03/29/2008, -1/+5"He not busy being born is busy dying"
      -Bob Dylan, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
    • Innagadadavida, on 03/29/2008, -0/+7"As soon as you're born you start diein'"

      - Cake
    • bliz, on 03/29/2008, -0/+8Between reading parent comment till this comment, you have 5 minutes of your life taken away. =(
    • hulez, on 03/29/2008, -0/+4Time is an illusion
    • Exekutor, on 03/29/2008, -1/+6"Every breath brings me one less to my last"
      Dream Theater
    • alexforcefive, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Memento Mori
  • FameMoney, on 03/29/2008, -8/+121Let me refraim. Not depressing, but a good gadget to remember you to live life to the fullest.
    • sockpuppets, on 03/29/2008, -3/+66Great watch to pick up emo girls with.
      • chinolofus, on 03/29/2008, -14/+2great watch to pick up emos at the school yard with.
        • ZeroNeo, on 03/29/2008, -1/+13what's with all the pedophilic jokes on digg lately?
          • Speed, on 03/29/2008, -1/+16To be fair, considering the fact that most digg users act like they're 12, they probably aren't pedophilic jokes
          • scotticus, on 03/29/2008, -2/+5who's joking?
          • chinolofus, on 03/29/2008, -1/+4pedo? i didnt know little girls were emos.
        • vertexoflife, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1412chan's down/
    • amrom, on 03/29/2008, -2/+2I have a similar watch in concept. It has a skeleton on the face. It's a cheap watch but it rocks.
    • BestJaxx, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1I think it's the watch from "Stranger Than Fiction."
    • afterlife23, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1let me refraim again. not depressing but a reminder of the afterlife
  • dancee, on 03/29/2008, -5/+13...so don't forget to say goodbye.
    • AKBryant54, on 03/29/2008, -0/+4Instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you realize that life goes fast, it's hard to make the good things last, you realize the sun doesn't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round.
  • Philluminati, on 03/29/2008, -2/+87For some reason, if I imagined having that watch, I'd be willing it to run of batteries so I could "Ha...suck on that"
  • philthetechie, on 03/29/2008, -5/+131If i paid over 145 dollars on that watch, I'd probably want to die every time I looked at it.
    • HenvY, on 03/29/2008, -0/+8Is it more depressing knowing that the we're all just biological organism destined to die, or that the watch costs $145? The watch, for sure.

      But, the really depressing thing is that the watch will outlive all of us by a very, very long time.
    • adikt, on 03/29/2008, -2/+20Some people like to wear other timepieces besides the $10 Timex from Walmart.
      • Aidje, on 03/29/2008, -8/+2Some of us like to save money for other things. Heck, some of us don't even wear watches. Cell phone FTW.
    • rickytan, on 03/29/2008, -1/+4There's nothing wrong with a quality watch.. In fact if you're going to wear a watch at all it's mostly for fashion. I mean, who can't look at their cell phone for the time? I can understand being cheap when it comes to clothes but when you're moving into luxury items you look like a douche bag wearing something from sunglass hut.
  • jggube, on 03/29/2008, -12/+7Glass is always half empty for some people :(
    • jemka, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3Is it a glass of a baby's blood?
    • selmer, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1I think the statement "remember, you will die" is outside the realm of pessimism and optimism. It is squarely in the realm of reality and fantasy.
    • bagboyrebel, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2the glass is obviously twice as big as it needs to be.
  • JonnyCasino, on 03/29/2008, -1/+20You can be a pessimist, an optimist, and all things in between... in the end, by knowing or not, we all live to die. I would look down on my wrist in the best of times and be satisfied that I have lived, and I would looked down on my wrist in the worst of times and be reckoned with time that I still need to live.
    • Aidje, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1Flippin' optimist. ::scowl::
    • kingvik, on 03/29/2008, -0/+5The glass isn't half full or empty, it's twice as big as it should be.
  • bamafun, on 03/29/2008, -6/+9be thankful for every precious minute =) and make good use of them
  • souljaboytellem, on 03/29/2008, -8/+2I was bred to live, born to die
  • rolf, on 03/29/2008, -2/+18I'd rather save the money and stick it in a bio-engineering company (stock) that may extend the quality and quanity of minutes I have left:-)
  • LastSight, on 03/29/2008, -0/+5give that to Connor MacLeod
  • sloppymoney87, on 03/29/2008, -8/+3Wow that is depressing... LOL
    mirro to image: http://uploadingit.com/view/508483_463jq
    • CATSCEO, on 03/29/2008, -2/+2What?
    • InsaneMachine, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2your blurry image is fail
      • Ataxia2008, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1You have to click on it for full size, retard.
    • dgblackout, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1gizmodo won't go down due to something like a picture.
      the digg affect is large, but not that big.
  • cam0man, on 03/29/2008, -7/+2there's no biological that evidence that death is inevitable...
    • Arch83, on 03/29/2008, -0/+4Is that your professional opinion, Doc, or do you care to substantiate your claim?
    • Hananda, on 03/29/2008, -0/+6Maybe not biological, but entropy will take care of anything that happens to still be alive in a few hundred billion years.
      • TheMoniker, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Yeah ... heat death of the universe, the lights go out as the last few black holes evaporate, etc. Still, I find it hard to talk about the capabilities of any civilization that's still standing in a few hundred billion years. Who knows what they might come up with by then? Probably something far more fanciful than we could even imagine now, limited as we are in our understanding.
    • TheMoniker, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1I get what you're trying to say. Sure, death might not be inevitable for people in the far future. At the present though, things look a little bleaker (or cheery, I guess, depending on your feelings on life/death). But hey, c'mon Singularity!
    • scotticus, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2You're right, unless a 100.000000000% correlation between human life and death isn't sufficient biological evidence. (r^2 value = 1.00000000000)
  • derram, on 03/29/2008, -0/+8Birthday present for the person you never want to see again.
  • GoKings, on 03/29/2008, -2/+50$145 for that? Watch is cool, but not $145 cool...
  • BackFall, on 03/29/2008, -6/+5Give it to a lil' kid, imagine what he's gonna start thinking.
  • DustinD, on 03/29/2008, -0/+9Great birthday gift!
  • wtfhacksDan, on 03/29/2008, -0/+12Definitely motivating, not depressing.
  • john2kx, on 03/29/2008, -2/+31World's first emo watch?
    • NightVortez, on 03/29/2008, -6/+3You do realize how little "emo" has to do with pessimism?
      • nouse66, on 03/29/2008, -1/+2who said anything about pessimism? most optimists aren't stupid enough to think they're immortal...
        • NightVortez, on 03/29/2008, -1/+2Well optimists tend to look on the bright side of things, I doubt many of them like to be reminded of eventual death. The optimistic version of that would be more along the lines of..

          "You're still alive"

          Thinking their immortal has nothing to do with it, it's a form of looking at something rather than not acknowledging something.
  • tattertech, on 03/29/2008, -0/+32"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
  • TheNeptune, on 03/29/2008, -0/+20I own this watch. It's humorous - people say it's depressing but it makes me enjoy life. Plus it's automatic sex with every self-pity girl on campus.
    • aclevernickname, on 03/29/2008, -0/+11can you take a picture of it and post it somewhere, I wanna see how it looks on a wrist before I buy it. thanks
      • Ataxia2008, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1the wrist with have razor blade scars on it, I bet.
      • geoff1210, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Lol, was this a well formed pics or it didn't happen?
    • sougly, on 03/29/2008, -1/+4"Remember, you're going to die. So why waste your time waiting for Mr. Right?"
      • thehab, on 03/29/2008, -1/+2"Because a minute with Mr. Right is worth an eternity with Mr. Wrong"!

        By the way, I actually had to create a Digg account to respond to this comment and answer your rhetorical question...

        - Mr. right (who has a Mrs. right)
  • SLockhart, on 03/29/2008, -13/+2It's not depressing if you are saved.
    • macweirdo42, on 03/29/2008, -2/+8Jesus saves, and so should you, at First National Bank!
    • TheMoniker, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3For those who fear an eternity --and the sentiment is more common than you may think -- perhaps it is a more depressing notion. Nonetheless, I think that death is perhaps less depressing if you believe in any one of the fanciful religious narratives. Anything, from waking in the Amitabha realm to partying with Odin in Valhalla seems more enjoyable than just ending.
      • arcooke, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1I'm perfectly content with "just ending". Ceasing to exist just like before I was born is fine by me.
        • TheMoniker, on 03/29/2008, -0/+0Well, fair enough. Each to their own. I should have added that the last part was just one possible opinion of many, though it happens to be mine.
    • scotticus, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1I'd rather score.
    • bagboyrebel, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2right, you just start at the respawn point again.
    • BeyondGoodNEvil, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Nor is it depressing if you are drugged your entire life on unscientific superstitions.
      • SLockhart, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1"Unscientific superstitions" is a redundant phrase as all superstitions are unscientific. But you'll be glad to hear that the Christian church is in agreement with you that superstition is harmful.
  • priceless721, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3145 dollars for it, seriously i would gladly buy one and probably will. 145 is not that bad when i was looking to spend almost 800 for a tissot t-touch which i think is the coolest watch ever, but for beautifully strange almost ironic watch i would gladly pay 145. seriously in my opinion dollar for dollar a comical/ironic/strange watch beats the technology laden and awe inspiriung compass function that the t-touch brings to the table.
  • phybere, on 03/29/2008, -1/+4I'd buy this watch if it wasn't so damn expensive, I think I'd be motivated to try to accomplish something every time I checked the time.
  • july1969, on 03/29/2008, -5/+0I wish it lol
  • Asianwaste, on 03/29/2008, -0/+9Rather have a watch that keeps accurate time.
  • Arch83, on 03/29/2008, -2/+13This is silly. The message only reads correctly from 6:00-6:30, 7:00-7:30, 8:00-8:30, ..., 11:00-11:30. Unless you're showing it off during those specific intervals (a total of 12 half-hours per day), you'll have to start by saying "Well, my watch is SUPPOSED to say..."
  • macweirdo42, on 03/29/2008, -0/+5If only I didn't spend so much time trying to figure out how best to spend my time.
  • Owwmykneecap, on 03/29/2008, -4/+2Heroin overdoses are fatal in the short term but there has been absolutely no research into the long term effects.
  • schneid4323, on 03/29/2008, -5/+3I bought it
  • krytz86, on 03/29/2008, -2/+1haha, quality
  • univerio, on 03/29/2008, -0/+8***** blogspam.

    http://www.watchismo.com/modern.php?cmd=view&id=31 ...
    • Ataxia2008, on 03/29/2008, -3/+1Um, I'd rather read about it on a blog, that link to a site where you can ***** BUY it.
    • etsboy1, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1lol check the pictures, really grainy
  • digicanmon, on 03/29/2008, -1/+5Most effective at 9:15.
  • herecomes, on 03/29/2008, -2/+1Yes, yes, the clock, evil, terrifying, inscrutable god whose menacing finger warns us, crying “remember!"
    • herecomes, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1Diggers are such a well-read bunch. It's always so gratifying to see them grasp the relatively obscure literary allusions while eschewing the more puerile attempts at wit. This is truly a forum for intellectuals.
  • nouse66, on 03/29/2008, -1/+2"Born to die, and you get
    to sit and watch your TV set. "
    • SuicideMouse, on 03/29/2008, -2/+0I was just about to post that EXACT same lyric but you beat me to it. Glad to see it posted anyways, so thanks :)
  • eviljolly, on 03/29/2008, -2/+9The most depressing watch would be one that always stops at 4:19
  • raskali, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Brilliant.
  • Speed, on 03/29/2008, -2/+15I know what to get my grandma for her birthday.
  • Zapita, on 03/29/2008, -6/+2the EMO watch!!
  • RedHerringHack, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3Time, they say, is the fire in which we burn.
  • natergin, on 03/29/2008, -3/+2remember... you will die..... and you spent 150 bucks for me to tell you every time.
  • cerealjynx, on 03/29/2008, -2/+3Hey look. A watch that actually makes sense to have on your wrist even though you have a cell phone.
    • kriswa, on 03/29/2008, -0/+0now that wrist watches have become well and truly redundant (for anyone who owns a mobile phone, other than antique collecting / extreme sports), someone has made a reason to own one again... however a tattoo with those words on your hand would be more effective, not to mention better value.
  • Wichy, on 03/29/2008, -2/+2... but that is not necessarily true
  • LostAngeles, on 03/29/2008, -2/+4I'll keep it right next to my pacemaker.
  • tyson626, on 03/29/2008, -3/+24I bought this for my friend with cancer.
    • tgunner, on 03/29/2008, -0/+14Aww... that's terrible..... Dugg.
    • deliciousapes, on 03/29/2008, -6/+1That isn't even close to funny. Grow the ***** up.
    • hulez, on 03/29/2008, -3/+1did the cancer fuse with the watch?
    • HawkeyeMatt, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1heh, I'm going through treatment for Hodgkin Lymphoma right now and I still lol'd. Actually when I saw the watch I thought "I should get this for myself".
  • jm4847, on 03/29/2008, -2/+2"Available for $145."
    lol debauchery.
  • ynggrsshppr, on 03/29/2008, -2/+3It's trying to be clever, but instead it's just pretentious.
  • kushin, on 03/29/2008, -4/+4Thats 4 expensive words on a cheap analog watch. I would rather prefer a digital one which has a real countdown(to the milliseconds) based on my life expectancy and programmable auto-decrement macros(of 5 minutes whenever I smoke).And that final call button, for when the inevitable happens, so that it can play the requiem tune and flash R.I.P. It has to be solar so it doesnt die before I do. And I am willing to pay the premium for the pro-version which has the GPS locator so my undertaker can locate me easily.
    • gabrielg01, on 03/29/2008, -1/+1It's not an analog watch, and it's not cheap either....and you can shove that GPS locator up your ass, so when the gay zombies find you they know what to do to you.
    • HaoTian, on 03/29/2008, -0/+0What if you die by starvation in an underground cavern system? Not so cool now are you, Mr. Fancy Solar Power Watch?
  • sathia, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1remember you will die
    $145
    You don't want to be the richest man in the grave yard
  • chkdg8, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Not if my cryonic dollars has anything to do about it.
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