If you have really hairy arms, this see-through design might not look quite as clean as it does in these pictures, but maybe the chance to wear an object of such style and grace would be worth shaving off that gorilla hair, at least on your arm.

On the other hand (arm?), we hear these S+arck watches are more of the "just a pretty face" variety, because their innards are cheap as a dime store windup toy. But for some, appearances are everything. No pricing was announced, but Fossil says these models will show up on its website this fall. [Technabob]

As you can see, the multicolor display has a few eye candy transitional animations, a calendar function and some sort of globe/map view, but this isn't intended to be digital entertainment in bite-sized form. OLEDs are great technology; they provide color and animation while consuming less power than LEDs or LCDs (which require backlighting). But if you need your watch to do much more than tell you what time it is, you're probably using it wrong or missing some other crucial, multipurpose gadget (like a cellphone, smartphone or PDA). Fossil is still playing hard to get on this one, so there is no word on pricing or availability just yet. [Fossil's OLED Watches via Technabob]

This gorgeous design is available for men and women, with the women's model built slightly narrower. Each is $247, which seems cheap for such high style.

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Now you can be like James Bond's dorky younger brother, who stayed at home watching A Clockwork Orange and reading Silver Surfer comic books. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Amazon - Thanks Matthew!]

Sure, everybody else is using cellphones to tell the time, but all you have to do is glance at your wrist. This design, called O-ring Digi, has a doughnut hole in the middle, displays hours as numerals, and minutes as cumulative segments building around the ring. Neat. It's relatively cheap, too, at $110.

Product Page [Fossil, via SlashGear]

The FX6001 does carry a above average price of $275. Overall, it does the job it was built to do, and that is it. Nothing too special – Travis Hudson

Fossil FX6001 Bluetooth Watch Hands On [CrunchGear]

In their review, TD says the pairing of watch to phone came extremely smoothly, but then dropped out after 15 minutes. Not sure if this is due to the pre-production sample or just the fact that some phones' Bluetooth stacks die after a while—something we're definitely familiar with. In any case, it's fun and it does what it advertises, which is displaying the caller's name.

We'd only recommend this if you're both looking for a watch and hate digging out your phone from your pants to send calls to voicemail. – Jason Chen

Review: MobileWear bluetooth watch [TechDigest]

See a glamour shot of the watch, and learn about Fossil's plans to publish the API online after the jump...

All of the watches are marketed to work with Sony Ericsson handsets, but can be made to connect with any phone running Symbian version 7 through 8.1 (and Nokia Series 60 by the end of the year). In an unexpectedly cool move, Fossil is publishing the API online, which probably means that someone will figure out how to control their Lego Mindstorms NXT from the thing and devolve the watch back to its dorky essence once again.

The Fossil Caller ID watch (center) will run $250 and be available starting in late October. The Abacus MobileWear watches (left and right) go for $200 and come out in mid-October.

– Noah Robischon

Kinetic watches use the motion of your arm to wind and charge the watch, so no need for any kind of battery or electricity nonsense. Although, if you don't wear the watch for a couple days you will have to reset the time. Worried if an EMF field disrupts all batteries and electronics? Have no frets, you will be able to keep track of your slow demise with these kinetic watches from fossil. I think i missed the kinetic watch day in EE class, I guess they would have to store the energy somewhere and an EMF disruption would screw it up. Bloops, my bad. Thanks, Kenneth. – Travis Hudson

Fossil Kinetic Watches: Never Change a Battery Again [Treehugger]

You can currently pick up Abacus watches for about $44 on Amazon, et al.

Fossil Stopped Selling Technology Wristwatches [Wristdreams]

Fossil Abacus watches and accessories [Amazon]

Fossil to Exit SPOT Market, MSN Direct Update [SPOTStop]

Priced at $130 and available at Fossil.com, this blast from the past, which isn't playable, unfortunately, will truly allow me to wear my geek stink on, or near, my sleeve.