Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin presents the Chairman phone

26 March, 2009
It's fancy, fashionable, pretentious and extra expensive. It's both a mechanical watch and a smartphone. It takes 5 megapixel pictures and has Wi-Fi module. It's touch-enabled and it's called the Chairman phone...

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  • 26 Mar 2009

Leo, 26 Mar 2009Ok, so its a phone-watch... how's that work? you have wifi.... morelook,what u see on the screen is not an actual watch.. it`s an animation.. think about it for a sec..
and the thing with the watch is basically the part that it charges itself like a watch does...

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    • Anonymous
    • ijD
    • 26 Mar 2009

    stil waiting for wind-up phones though, read an srticle about how much power a modern wind up can generate, certainly moved up from monkey and symbal toys.. its impressive...radio's and led torches and other small appliances already do, the phone was apparently next.

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      • Leo
      • G2G
      • 26 Mar 2009

      Ok, so its a phone-watch... how's that work? you have wifi... then if the watch is the screen, where can you see the web pages? I... baffled..

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        • Binsz
        • nHY
        • 26 Mar 2009

        This is a Sagem inside. Check the Saegem Porsche Design P'9522, same buttons, same screen, same size... :S

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          • Anonymous
          • 0Bs
          • 26 Mar 2009

          scarnix, 26 Mar 2009It will be a failure. that mechanical watch will be a distr... moreyou obviously have no clue about the chairmen's lifestyle. chairmen don't watch movies or video in their phone. time is the most important to them because they are the no.1 person in their compny (not a small-time company of course).

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            • Gugy
            • pu0
            • 26 Mar 2009

            an iteresting device. i'm wonderig how does the touchscreen and a machanical watch underneat work. so you see a menu but you stil can see the watch below the sceeen? then you just have to decide to wich surface you will focus the eyes? that kinetyc system might be a great idea if it's effective.

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              • Leo
              • G2G
              • 26 Mar 2009

              Hell of a looker!! Too bad it was made for the super rich!!

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                • i}d
                • 26 Mar 2009

                Ulysse Nardin is famous for making (really) expensive watches ($100,000 and above).
                This is being a cell phone AND a limited edition one will make the price goes through the roof...

                Hope it has a good reception though... Pity if it's not... ;-D

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                  • 0iw
                  • 26 Mar 2009

                  Sounds expensive as hell

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                    • Anonymous
                    • P%n
                    • 26 Mar 2009

                    Anonymous, 26 Mar 2009this statement blew me away "It allows passive recharging o... moreInreally don't know if the passive charging will do much, a watch battery requires a fraction of the power of a mobile phone battery.

                    $2000 probably wouldn't even get you in the door, I don't think it will be as much as the Goldvish exclusive edition's $1,000,000 price tag.

                    I wonder which OS it will have?

                    I guess it depends on which phone they stripped down and rebuilt?

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                      • scarnix
                      • u1v
                      • 26 Mar 2009

                      It will be a failure. that mechanical watch will be a distraction for sure, how will u watch movies and browse the web, the damn thing is mechanical, cant make it dissapear. LOL

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                        • wisdOm
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                        • 26 Mar 2009

                        wowwwwwww

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                          • geek
                          • SH9
                          • 26 Mar 2009

                          the most luxury and classy mobile phone ever made and if it works like a swiss watch that will great.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • w0Q
                            • 26 Mar 2009

                            this statement blew me away "It allows passive recharging on the battery while you are on the move - just like a wrist watch. "

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                              • Zobi
                              • Cat
                              • 26 Mar 2009

                              Gonna be cheaper if you buy with 2-year contract. Touch screen is nice. Hopefully comes out soon!

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                                • Anonymous
                                • jJe
                                • 26 Mar 2009

                                Beautiful. I wish it has a full qwerty keyboard for better web browsing. Then it would really be worth to consider even with its high price.

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                                  • Mustafa
                                  • FvX
                                  • 26 Mar 2009

                                  Beautiful looking phone! It's also nice to see that they aren't leaving out features that people would expect in phones that cost a fraction of what these hefty-priced beauties are after. $2000 for this piece of bling is totally worth it!

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                                    • puy
                                    • 26 Mar 2009

                                    beautiful piece! the art of craftmanship.

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                                      • nE0
                                      • 26 Mar 2009

                                      if the watch is mechanical, then im assuming its constantly on the screen... unless im wrong
                                      if so, how do we browse the internet presuming we can afford it :-p
                                      will the clock not be a distraction?

                                      all in all its an innovation we needed. Atleast some people are thinking outside the box!!

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • u1v
                                        • 26 Mar 2009

                                        sexiest fone ive ever seen..........if i had the money i wud've definetly bought it