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How do I find the latest in cyberpunk gear?

Each Thursday we bring you great, new, potential additions to your high-tech, low-life arsenal! We always help answer the question, How do I find the latest in cyberpunk gear?

This week we offer three unique opportunities to explore a little retro cyber-fuel for our lives in gear.

The Coolest Cyberpunk Timepiece Ever

A few years ago an engineer came up with a design for a watch using a clean interface making time personal in cyberpunk style, however, there was some disagreement as to its stylistic leanings.

Thanks to Twitter Tread

But when William Gibson chimes in, the Godfather of Cyberpunk, you know it’s legit. It’s like Bitcoin, its blockchain gold. Plus, it was even backed up by Popular Mechanics as “the Coolest Cyberpunk Watch Ever.”

This got us to wondering what else had been heralded as the coolest of the cool in cyberpunk watches… and, as in so many other cases, we came back to a particular film – Aliens.

The Ripley Watch

To say the “Ripley Watch” from James Cameron’s Aliens is much beloved it would be like saying people kinda like Bitcoin, or that they were just sort of into bustin’ shorts during the squeeze in January. Others have pushed this understanding further and gone so far as to say it is one of the most iconic film watches of all time!

For those who don’t buy Aliens as Cyberpunk, what could be more low-life than the grunt-life of a marine, a colonial marine at that, and more hi-tech than remoting a shuttle from space with one of the best androids in the history of film?

Thanks to Cyber Chaos Crew

For the watch itself, the Seiko 7a28-7000 “Ripley” Quartz Chronograph continues to astound. Prices have even skyrocketed on E-bay reaching $1500!

YouTube videos are even available now, calling it a childhood dream come true…

Thanks to Fellow Aliens Enthusiast The Urban Gentry

And timepiece enthusiasts rave over it…

Thanks to TimesTicking

This cyberpunk timepiece definitely ranks among the best of the best in retro cyberpunk gear.

Getting Your Own

So ultimately, you could shell out $1500 bucks to buy the Ripley watch or one of the cheaper repros (still a few hundred bucks as the video says). And of course, you can’t buy the De Christofaro watch.

So what is a cyberpunk lover on a budget supposed to do??? Mod it up for ourselves of course. So in honor of providing that daily bit of inspiration, we found a great Reddit post on building your own smartwatch. You gotta check out this thread! And of course the site for oswatch.org.

In any case, we hope you had a blast gearing up with time with BCB Cyber.

Just so you know, we are not sponsored by any of these products, companies, or organizations. We just love to share the coolest gear out there to self-cyberize and make our worlds our own! Make sure to come back soon and to check out more in Cyber-Gear follow this link!

Brian C. Briggs