First apple watch in History ! So here was the incentive. If you bought System 7.5, you would get – at no extra cost – your choice of either a piece of software called Conflict Catcher 3 (meant to help alleviate issues with third party applications running on the Macintosh), or … an Apple Watch – but not the one you're thinking of. It's all there, printed in ink, on a very '90s Apple advertisement. In a bold red box, as if straight from an infomercial, it reads, "It's 7.5 time. Upgrade to System 7.5 today and get a FREE gift." We know that none of us were choosing Conflict Catcher 3 – so what about this watch? The most interesting thing about this promotional giveaway timepiece is just how prescient it is. So many design features point to the future of Apple, rather than looking to its past. The case is made of stainless steel, but features a blue anodized aluminum bezel – a material that we would come to find on all manner of Apple products from the MacBook line to the iPhone. The lugs are polished stainless steel, designed in a tiered configuration with an almost Chrono-pusher look to them at the ends due to a small gap in the middle (note, this is definitely not a chronograph). On the blue bezel are small protruding steel circles in a symmetrical array, with sets of two at three and nine o'clock, and sets of one at six and 12 o'clock. Whenever one appears on auction websites, it causes the collective Internet to ask "Wait, is this real?" Having recently spent time with one myself, I can confirm that it certainly is – and that it's quite possibly the wackiest design ever released by the house of Apple. The dial surface is sparse, if not totally empty. There are no markers to track minutes or seconds, save for three applied, polished ellipses at 12, three, six, and nine – but they don't help much in terms of time-telling. The words "Quartz" and "Japan Mov't" constitute the minimal dial text. In some ways (namely color and geometry), it resembles the work of designer Alain Silberstein (though Silberstein's is a more Bauhaus style, where the Apple Watch takes from the Memphis design). In other ways it feels more impressionistic. Mostly, it's just fun and weird. Let's talk about those hands! Honestly, they look like a Calder mobile hanging in a modern art museum. The hour hand is a thick green triangle, while the minute hand is a popsicle stick of a red rounded rectangle. At first glance, the seconds hand simply seems to be a squiggly line leading to a perfect circle where all the hands meet. Upon closer inspection – if you start with your eyes at the circular center – it uncannily resembles the old Mac "hockey puck" mouse, with the squiggly line serving as the cord winding its way into the back of the computer. But that mouse wasn't released until 1998 – three years after this watch came out. Turning the watch over, we find a closed stainless steel caseback, again letting us know there's a Japanese quartz movement beating away inside. It also has an engraving which reads "Contemporary Design," for those who can't tell. Two months after the release of Macintosh System 7.5 (and this Apple Watch), Microsoft had an announcement of its own. On August 24, 1995, Bill Gates and co. unleashed Windows 95 into a personal computing world that would never be the same. Apple was all but finished. It would take a miracle, and certainly not a contemporary wristwatch, to save them. In 1997, Jobs returned to the company he founded. In the years that followed, Cupertino would roll out colorful computers, circular mouses, anodized aluminum laptops and phones, and – eventually – what we know today as the Apple Watch. Case size is 35x39mm without crown. 39mm with crown. Fast Express Shipping World-wide please also check my other #supercoolwatches