A Wristwatch That Alleviates the Struggle (of Long-Distance Love)

Via Fast Company, here’s a watch by a Hong Kong-based design studio called Kitmen Keung that displays, very elegantly, a clock that’s on your time as well a clock for the time zone of your beloved (or, your office back home when you’re traveling, or your elderly parents, etc). The watch intends to be a talisman against out-of-sight, accidentally-called-you-at-sunrise-because-I-miscalculated: “A distance relationship can gradually become a blur in someone’s mind,” says the designer.

If I could have afforded a $480 watch, or $480 possessions in general, when I went away for Peace Corps I would certainly have bought this, even though my relationship time difference there was about the best it could be: 12 hours, which minimized the math. One summer I tried doing London to New York and found that the 5-hour difference truly awful; my friends who’ve done Los Angeles to New York say similar things. And I’m curious: what’s been the worst time zone deal for you? What’s the longest you’ve sustained a long-distance relationship, and how willing/unwilling are you to ever do it again? (Me: 1 year, not very.)