Tokyoflash Japan Kisai RPM Watch Unboxing & Sizing Guide Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look on a very different sort of unboxing set of
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the kise RPM watch from tokyo flash japan so this is actually my second time
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having a look at one of their watches here is the shipping container that it
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arrived in there's some like packing foam and stuff but other than
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that not much of interest here they shipped me two watches one of which i'm gonna
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unbox now and the other one has an embargo date that we're going to have to
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take a look at later so i'm going to get the camera in to come and have a close look at the
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unboxing experience
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so the first thing you're going to notice about tokyo flash's website it is
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is it is very sort of flashy and exciting their watch designs are very
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unique so to to at first glance it's very
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difficult to tell the time on a tokyo flash watch because they don't have
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traditional sort of hand minute hand hour hand second hand kind of thing
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going on they all have sort of cool led displays so it comes with a little
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manual it comes with a foamy okay just to protect the top of the
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watch then the watch itself like i said this is my my second there
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we go i accidentally turned it on but either way that looks cool this is my
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second watch that i've encountered from them so i'm not that surprised this time
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at the overall solid feel it's a stainless steel watch so
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the the pricing is sort of in line with what you might expect from a stainless
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steel watch so we're talking watches that cost sort of in the hundreds or
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couple hundreds as opposed to watches that cost you know thousands like what
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you might find in a jewelry store where they're made of gold or silver or whatever else in terms of included
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accessories there's oh i just dropped something hold on i'll
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be back in a moment ah there we go so there's a couple of things number one is
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an included screwdriver this is actually for opening up
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the charging port so you're going to want to keep that handy sort of next to
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your computer or whatever else you're using to charge it it charges by usb so
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you just plug in the usb port to something that provides 5 volt power
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plug this into the watch and it charges and then it does come with an extra plug
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just in case you do happen to lose this one i would recommend keeping it plugged
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it does have a little rubber seal on it so it'll just help keep the watch
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protected in event that in the event that a little bit of moisture gets on it
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or whatever else the case may be so let's go ahead and take the plastic off
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here so this is actually the first design from tokyo flash japan that has
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been inspired by one of their fan created sort of concepts
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and then brought to life by their team so i think that's really really cool
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that they that they do that sort of thing and right now i'm having a little bit of trouble with this plastic wrap
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which is causing me no small amount of stress because i'm trying to unbox it
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and i'm not really having a lot of luck here there we go so it's just folded
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around the entire wristband itself so that it doesn't get
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scratched and transit you know what i'm just gonna have to do this off camera
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sorry about that guys i finally got it so it's an extremely extremely shiny
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finish under there which is uh
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yeah very very shiny okay i hope you
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guys can get a good look at that you gotta you got a good look at it okay and then the last bit of protective plastic
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is here on the back of the watch where they've got their RPM RPM branding
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what's it say three something what
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what three atmospheres water resistant okay
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cool 3.6 volt rechargeable usb rechargeable battery only cool stuff
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okay so resizing resizing can be a bit of a bear with watches but i did figure
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out how to do it last time they sent a watch over this one it looks like i'll have to remove about two links whenever
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you're resizing a watch you want to make sure that you remove
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equally from both sides so that you don't end up with the buckle sort of on
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sort of the side of your wrist or anything like that the way to read the time on this watch is actually fairly
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straightforward once you get the hang of it so it's logical if you think about it
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this way the inner ring of leds which is actually magnified by a lens that sits
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over top of them around the the stainless steel center piece that has
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kind of a brushed finish can you see that okay so the inner part which would
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be the shorter hand if you were to think of it in terms of watch hands is the
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hours so this one right here is set right now
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to one two three four five six seven eight nine
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nine hours so it is nine and then the outer
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ring of leds is minutes so 9 hours and 15 minutes
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they're in increments of 5 5 10 15 then these guys right here that are flashing
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are another incremental or any incremental minutes so the fact that
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three of them are flashing means it is 9 18
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at the time of reading this watch which it isn't but you can't really expect a
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watch to be set to the correct time when it arrives especially if you buy it from
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japan and you don't live in japan
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so we're going to do give me a couple minutes here we're going to resize it and then we'll get you guys some shots
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of it sort of on the on the wrist here
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now the sizing process is pretty simple you can see i've already removed one
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full link from one of the sides and i'm in the midst of removing another
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link all you got to do is i was able to fashion myself a tool out of a paper
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clip so i just use my trusty snippers to
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cut a very thin piece of metal then what you do is you take that
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straight thin piece of metal you line it up on the edge of a table and give it
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kind of a whack now there's arrows on the inside of the wristband that
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indicate which way the pins come out see the the arrows here so the pins that are
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in the watch come out they only go in one way so they have kind of a ball at
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the end of one of the sides so they just kind of slide in and slide out this way
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so you give it a whack with something preferably smaller than
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this make sure it's lined up straight pull out the pin
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then you pull out your tool there we go
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and which i've now bent but it's okay i can always make myself another one then
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what you do is you take out these pieces that you no longer need
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line the watch back up with uh hopefully you put it in the right way something to
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bear in mind guys very very very important is that you don't want to take
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out the very the very last link
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in either on either side because it's a real bear to put those ones back
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together unless you're you know you definitely need all of them out so it's always a
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good idea to do a quick sort of approximation of what you think the
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sizing is going to be like before you go ahead and put the links back in so i'm
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just going to clip it back together here
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and we'll be back in a moment
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so basically this is what the watch looks like you just press the button to read the
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time as we showed you guys before it only flashes for sort of a couple
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moments and then it will actually turn off in order to conserve power which is
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great because you gotta charge it when it runs out of power now i removed three
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links at the end and i should probably take one more out it's still a little
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bit loose but we uh we did sort of
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put it all back together and then we're trying to film so make sure you keep the
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extra links as well as the pins that you removed in a safe place thank you for
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checking out my unboxing and first look at the kise RPM from tokyo flash japan
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