Watches have gotten pretty complicated. Between ultra-fancy mechanical watches and software-laden smartwatches, the things we wear on our wrists have become more intricate than ever. But the Solid State Watch, an art project from design studio CW&T, which is currently looking for funding on Kickstarter, is an ultra-minimalist tribute to simpler days (specifically, the classic Casio F91W-1 digital watch.)
Where the Casio F91W-1 was a fairly simplistic timekeeping device, offering the most bare-bones features of a clock, stopwatch, alarm, and backlight, the Solid State Watch takes things a step further. It takes electronics of an F91W-1 and encases it entirely in a block of solid resin. There are no buttons, rendering the stopwatch, alarm,…