There was a time when pocket watches were things old men pulled out of waistcoat pockets before adjusting their monocle, but those days are long gone. Nowadays we get devices like the Kisai Round Trip Pocket Watch, which takes the swinging fob and wraps it into a digital kaleidoscope of colour and steel.

In line with most of these new fangled devices, it’s all but impossible to tell the time unless you’ve got a degree from MIT, but hey, why should that stop anyone buying the thing? Priced at $72.97. Bah…get off my lawn you hooligans…

 Touch the button and a programmed animation will ignite from beneath the smoked screen before the time is displayed. The time is shown with flashing lights; orange LEDs show hours in the inner ring in the same position as hours on a clock face. Blue LEDs show minutes in the outer ring in groups of 3 in the same position as minutes on a clock face…