FUTURE FUNK Analog Digital Watch - Waterproof Manufacturer Warranty [FF104]

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Mirco is a microbrand based in Tokyo. They take their inspiration from the golden age of the 1970s, creating watches that speak of that retro aesthetic, with bold and sporty designs, but without copying any particular model. The cases of their watches are incredibly complex and superbly finished, and house sourced Swiss made ETA movements further customized by themselves, but don’t expect their timepieces to be cheap. His creations are incredibly well made, taking design cues from the watches of the 1930s, boasting that old school elegance and beauty that contemporary watchmaking has almost lost. The name of the brand is associated with the Eastern countries, as seen from a European perspective, mostly referring to the Asian continent and the coveted treasures that used to come from there in the past.

One thing that few watchmakers and Knot does is that it allows their clients to customize their watch as much as possible, choosing a design, case and dial colors from their wide range of watch bodies and pairing it with one of their almost two hundred straps.

He went on to develop an in-house tourbillon in four years. If that’s not an impressive feat, we don’t know what is. Covered Up: There're some cases that remixes of old songs (or even other Vaporwave/Future Funk ones) became more famous thanks to their Future Funk remixes being the original versions forgotten by them. A know case is "葛城ミサトYEBISU" by マクロスMACROSS 82-99, being more known the remixed version by Yung Bae.

Their pieces aren’t by any means spectacular, but pleasant mechanical timepieces that are characterized by reliability and a beautiful simplicity.

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See also Synthwave, another Internet music genre with the same origins and aesthetics that Future Funk but with original creations instead of being based on samples as in Vaporwave; Nightcore, the inversion of Vaporwave but also internet-born, sample-based, anime-themed, and upbeat-based as Future Funk; and City Pop, the Japanese Pop Music genre from The '80s that Future Funk is mostly based. The brand started from the idea of blending the future with the past, an idea reflected in their name, which is composed from mirai (future) and kako (past). one of the reasons why i stopped making this music was because i simply got tired of hearing the same things over and over again. i wanted to compose, and compose differently. i didn't want to compose original future funk, i wanted to compose different music that still had my touch to it. In terms of movements, they do source them from the likes of Seiko and Miyota. When it comes to design, they’ve got solid choices, from automatic chronographs to solar powered pieces, Bauhaus designs, and square shaped dress watches. And the most important price is their accessibility, allowing people to enjoy unique timepieces without breaking the bank.

Seiko is probably the most renowned Japanese watchmaker, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s our number one entry. They were the first to built a quartz watch, leading the quartz revolution, and offering the world a more affordable timekeeping tool, so that everyone could put one on their wrists. In short, Future Funk can be considered a Spiritual Antithesis to Vaporwave in that while Vaporwave is cynical and sarcastic, criticizing rose-tinted Gen X & Millennial nostalgia towards the 80's and 90's, Future Funk is much more jovial and celebratory, embracing said nostalgia and utilizing its positive elements to craft a retrofuturist party atmosphere. Future Funk is about the quirky aesthetics, about unique timepieces that look like nothing you’ve seen before. They blend the LED displays of the ’70s with retro futuristic designs, and they do it extremely well. Their watches seem designed with the space explorers in mind, rather than your average earth inhabitant. Kikuchi Nakagawa is another small and independent watchmaker from Japan, a shared vision of two men who started their journey in other disciplines before finding their passion for making watches. Besides these big prolific companies, there are plenty of smaller, independent watchmakers that have the qualities Japan is known for, like the excellent craftsmanship and the attention to detail that have made the big brands what they are today.City Pop songs usually fall into this. Songs like Mariya Takeuchi's "Plastic Love" have been used as base to create a lot of different songs just by rearranging the song or using a couple of lyrics or just the rhythms. you (most of the time) don't think of macross for his jersey club or experimental trap music, and you definitely don't think of "pegboard nerds dallas cotton remix" when you think of yung bae. The biggest jump hour revival took place in the 1960s and 1970s with these digital display watches being marketed as a cheaper alternative to the new electronic digital watches. These watches contain standard mechanical movements but have rotating discs instead of moving hands.