Frederique Constant, a watchmaker based in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the smartwatch "Orlogical Smartwatch FC-285V5B4" ahead of the world's largest watch and jewelry trade fair "Baselworld 2015". The planned price is 183,600 yen, and the release is scheduled for June 2015.
The case follows the standard analog watch design with a stainless steel rose gold plate, a case diameter of 42 mm and a sapphire crystal dome-shaped windshield.
The time adjustment is a specification that synchronizes with the smartphone via Bluetooth and sends information to the wristwatch, and the crown at 3 o'clock is not for time adjustment, but for synchronization operation with the smartphone and buttons for viewing data on the clock face. is.
Watches with weak torque such as solar watches have a poor appearance such as using thin hands, but FC-285V5B4 has hands, dial, and case details that are unique to watch makers.
As a display function on the clock side, the time display (hours and minutes) and the date at 6 o'clock, the target achievement rate of activity and sleep time is displayed in%.
Equipped with a patented sensor fusion engine called MotionX, it senses user data related to activity and sleep with a sensor, records and saves the data for 30 days, and sends the data to a smartphone.
On the smartphone app side, activity tracking (perometer, activity distance, calories burned), sleep monitoring (sleep time, sleep onset time, rem sleep, non-rem sleep, how many times you woke up during sleep, time you woke up), electronic sound Sleep cycle alarm (alarm that wakes you up at the optimal time), get active alert (notifies you with a warning sound when the amount of activity is low), adaptive coaching (displays activity and sleep on a daily, weekly, monthly basis in a graph) , Has cloud backup and restore capabilities.
The watch is battery-powered like a quartz watch, has a battery life of more than 2 years, and does not require charging during that time. Battery replacement will be done at a watch store, just like existing Swiss watches.
Smartphones can be used on both Android and iPhone, Android is compatible with 4.4.2 and above, and iOS is compatible with 8.1.3 and above. The latest firmware is constantly released in the cloud, and it is said that the accuracy of smartwatch data will be improved through smartphones.
In addition to FC-285V5B4, Frederique Constant will announce 10 types of smart watches equipped with MotionX compatible with iOS and Android, and will be released at authorized retailers around the world from June 2015.
The smartphone app will be released in June when the watch goes on sale.
Its function as a smart watch is similar to that of activity meters such as Jawbone, such as activity tracking, sleep monitoring, and sleep cycle alarm. That should be it, Frederique Constant's owner and Full Power Technologies of Silicon Valley, which provides wearable solutions to Nike, Jawbone, etc., launched a joint venture MMT (Manufacture Modules Technologies Sarl) and opened the Swiss watch industry. Because we are aiming for a platform.
Full Power Technologies provides MMT with circuit design, firmware, smartphone applications, cloud and his infrastructure, and when it comes to teaming up with Frederique Constant, who has the ability to develop and manufacture movements in-house, the Swiss smartwatch is pretty interesting. It will be finished.
