This watch is one of the winners of the 2008 Seiko Power Design Project, where designers competed to create watches that exemplified the characteristics of different Tokyo neighborhoods, and the “dualities of Tokyo; the contrast between the avant-garde and the conservative, the structured and the chaotic and between the industrial and the human.”

I’ve never been to Tokyo, let alone Otemachi, but the simplicity of this particular design, coupled with the industrial touch of a knurled edge, really speaks to me.

To read more about the Seiko Power Design Project, check out this PDF on their site.  All of the 2008 winners can be viewed here.