Hi guys, thought I'd post a few pictures of my Braun BN10 for you. I've had it for a little while now and before I ordered mine I tried to find some real pictures online but had no luck.
I'm really impressed with this watch! They did a great job on the build quality. Feels like a little machine rather than a watch. The pictures show mine with the rubber strap which I picked up separately being that I originally ordered it with the stainless band. This was one of those watches that takes on a different personality depending on which band you choose. With the stainless band it weighs about the same as an Omega Seamaster although I haven't weighed the two of them to do a true comparison, I expect that the BN10 is just a little lighter.
I probably should note that the pictures do not do the display justice. In my pictures the display looks like it is two different colors. It's really a nice even color. I would say that it looks closer to what you see at the top of the upper digits and the bottom of the lower digits. I think my little point and shoot camera has some kind of polarization issue. With your eyes, the display is a very even. In low light the display is pretty impressive when compare to some other watches that I've seen and in bright sunlight the digits jump right out and at some angles it almost looks 3D.
I really like the power saver feature on this watch. Two minutes after the watch has not moved, the display blanks out which is supposed to save battery power. There are a bunch of settings as far as how you would like the display's layout to read. I like having the 12 hour time on the top with the day of the week and day number on the bottom. If you press in on the scroll wheel one time, the display switches to hours, minutes and seconds. I've never been too much of a timer, alarm or stopwatch user although this watch covers all of them.
The closeup picture of the display makes the watch look huge on my wrist! My wrists are kind of small but it actually looks quite normal in person. That picture makes it looks like you can't see any of the rubber strap when it's on my wrist. It really doesn't look like that in person. It's very much to proportion. I know people are very skeptical about this type of display (including myself) so I wanted to be sure that I showed it as close as possible. The digits look a little sharper with your eyes that they do in the extreme closeup. I think our eyes are a little more forgiving than a digital camera.
Like I had mentioned on another forum, the day that I received this watch I was on my way to lunch. I set the watch, put it on my wrist and when I walked into the restaurant and sat down and the first thing that the person that waited on me said was, "I really like your watch".
I'll admit that I'm an Apple computer user and when I originally bought this I really hadn't put two and two together that this looks very similar to an iMac. I use a laptop and not an iMac so my reason for buying this was not the similar design to the Apple iMac but probably the similar minimalist/futuristic look. I'm really interested to see if the next time I wear this into the Apple store if anyone has a comment.
I really have tired to think if I have any cons to offer about the BN10. So far, none that I can think of. I will say that the backlight is not blindingly bright but when you are in a situation where you really need the backlight, it does the job. My guess is that is if they made the backlight so bright that you could see it in daylight then that would be overkill and would cause much more drain on the battery than would be necessary. Not sure if that's what they had in mind but I would think that would only make sense.
Enjoy!
25 Feb 2012, 17:43
in Aug/Sept 2011, I wonder if anyone has actually has a BN10, maybe someone with a facebook account could contact Laurids Wiemer (winner) and ask him whether he already has the watch.
