Most smartwatches today feel like a tiny smartphone strapped to your wrist—filled with apps, buzzing with notifications, and demanding your attention. They don’t really reflect who you are, unless you tap the screen and scroll through menus.
Timeflix was built to be different.
At a glance, it tells you the time—without needing a wrist flick or button press. With its real, physical hands, it brings back the simple, reliable experience of a traditional watch.
But that’s not all it offers. The Timeflix Hybrid Watch keeps a refined balance between essential smart functionality and elegant simplicity. It’s meant for people who don’t want to be interrupted constantly, but still want the convenience of a modern timepiece.
There’s no overload of features. Just a smooth, focused experience with useful tools and clean, intentional design. It doesn’t try to compete with your phone. It complements your life.
While most smartwatches look like tech gadgets, Timeflix looks and feels like a watch—something you’d be proud to wear every day. It has a timeless style that speaks for itself, even when it’s not lit up or showing anything flashy.
If you’ve ever felt like current smartwatch options are more about features than feeling, more about being connected than being calm—Timeflix might be what you’ve been waiting for.
We’re excited to share more details about the TimeFlix Watch—designed to bring you the best of both classic timekeeping and smart features
1. A Watch That Always Shows the Time
Unlike traditional smartwatches that rely on always-on displays, TimeFlix uses real physical hands to show the time—just like a classic watch. These hands rotate peripherally above the display, ensuring they never block important information. A quick glance is all you need—no wrist flicks, no tapping, no distractions.
2. Smarter Display Usage for Multi-Week Battery Life
The AMOLED display is reserved for smart functions like workouts, notifications, and apps. By reducing unnecessary screen usage, TimeFlix conserves power, delivering multi-week battery life—no daily charging required.
3. No More Smudged Screens—Buttons Are Better
TimeFlix ditches the touchscreen for a four-button navigation system, offering a cleaner, faster, and more intuitive experience. No more tapping tiny screens or smudging your watch face.
Customizable Button Gestures – Map shortcuts like double-clicking for the flashlight (yes, there’s a physical LED torch!), launching workouts, or starting timers.
Muscle Memory Navigation – With time, you’ll instinctively know which buttons take you where, making interactions quicker and more seamless—even without looking.
We’re refining the UI to fully optimize button-based navigation, ensuring efficiency and ease of use.
4. A Low-Power Chip Built for Longevity
TimeFlix runs on the Ambiq Apollo4 Blue Plus, an ultra-low-power chipset that handles everything from UI interactions to health tracking and Bluetooth connectivity.
The real-time clock (RTC) operates independently, keeping the hands ticking even if the watch is running on minimal power. This means your watch will always show the time, no matter what.
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Timekeeping isn’t something new. If you time traveled and visited sometime before 16th century, you would see large tower clocks in churches and town centers which commoners used to keep track of time and schedule their activities.
Abberley Clock Tower
This was before pocket watches were popularized and used by men and women. They were built in all sorts of forms like a pendant style to the classic in the coat ones we are familiar with.
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
During the same time, women have started to use bracelet type of wrist watch while men preferred a chained pocket watch, because wrist watches were considered delicate and feminine.
It wasn’t until the late 19th century and the early 1900s that men started to use wrist watches, not for style, but for tactical purposes. You see, at around the time of the World War I (1914), men were sent to the war, some were issued a wrist watch, others got it for themselves, but men had started to strap up their wrists with timepieces.
Australian ANZACS wearing wristwatches in World War I
The military found important applications of wrist watches for things like, synchronized movements, coordinating bombardments from trenches, timed missions. Aviators started to use them for flight time calculations, and for the soldiers down in the trenches, luminous hands were developed for low light visibility. And obviously the men that came home, kept wearing the watches, and no longer were wrist watches seen as feminine pieces of jewelry. They had become a utility device.
You probably see this by now. Watches were developed to fill the need of the hour. Developments were seeded by necessities. Developments like automatic watches which eliminated daily winding, and later the introduction of Quartz movements by Seiko all moved in the direction of better usability and utility of wrist watches
But are “Smart” watches in the loss of this ideology? With all the advancements of modern tech and connected features a smartwatch offers today, they often fail to fulfill the primary need of the hour(pun intended). They fail to show you the time, always, conveniently and at a glance.
Wrist watches have always been the perfect way of time keeping, just glance at your wrist and you have an idea about a world of things around you and about you. When’s your favorite show gonna be up, is it too late for that coffee? All that’s needed is a glance at your wrist
Timeflix uncomplicated this simple centuries old idea and pinches in a modern flavor in a simple and elegant way. As much technologically advanced the Amoleds displays and low power modes are, here at TimeFlix, we believe, timekeeping is best left to these Analogue hands, physical enough in the sun, and luminous enough for the nights. Because, having smart features does not mean compromising on the ease of checking the time right? We respect the timeless essence of a classic wrist watch, by building a foundation of simplified timekeeping along with the smarts of the modern era.
If you ever wished for such a watch and if you’re excited to see TimeFlix on your wrist, I personally welcome you to join us on this journey. Share your thoughts in the interest form linked below. Your feedback and thoughts help us shape the future of TimeFlix 🙂
With “modernization,” we went from physical pushers and knobs in cars to capacitive touch buttons for climate controls and infotainment systems. Until last year, my home had a 20-year-old kitchen vent hood with actual push buttons and knobs for suction control. I remember growing up using its small light to find midnight snacks. The tiny light was always just enough for me to find something but not bright enough for others to notice. I would press the button, the light would turn on, I’d grab some cookies, and enjoy.
I still try to do this, even when I need to cut down on snacks. But now, the manufacturers have decided to use touch buttons in the new hoods. The four closely placed capacitive buttons make it hard to guess which one you’re pressing. And I can’t slide my fingers over them to figure out which one is the light and which one will crank up the oh-so-loud suction at full speed.
I remember texting my friends back in the day on a Samsung keypad phone. After a while, you’d memorize every button press and soon be opening the SMS app and typing a quick text without even looking at your phone.
Sure, some things modern tech has caught up on—like phones now having haptics for button presses, giving you the “feel” that some action has been taken. But physical buttons did more than just confirm a tap; they made it easy to do quick tasks once you developed muscle memory for them.
Was this considered when they developed the concept of a “smart” watch as well? Is the touchscreen the only differentiation from a classic watch? Or is it the extra functionality we can now have on our wrist? Is being connected via Bluetooth to your phone what makes it “smart”?
A good number of movies make their audiences associate future tech with touch displays (and holograms, etc.), but that’s just it—they’re movies. They want to look good. They want their tech to look cool. This does not always translate to real-world functionality.
Try covering your smartwatch’s display with your fingers. With just two fingers, you can almost cover its entirety.
Touchscreens work well on a phone—there’s more screen space, more versatility with keyboards and buttons, and better content interaction. But what these companies seem to have overlooked is that, along with being tiny, a wristwatch’s main function is to be a utility—something that tells you the time and maybe provides a little more information.
In the past, that information was limited to the date. I remember specialized Casio watches—some had calculators, some had world clocks, some had moon phases, and some even had compasses. Watches have always been companions, utilities that add easily accessible data and functions to an always-reachable place—your wrist.
People love Samsung watches’ rotating bezels. They make navigation easy, allowing you to scroll through lists and text without your fingers covering the display. Apple Watch does this with a rotating crown. Both approaches still require you to touch the display at some point, leaving it smudged by the end of the day. And forget using these watches with wet or sweaty hands. To top it off, these watches last only a couple of days before needing a recharge.
So, what should a smartwatch be? Can a watch have all these “smart” features in a sleek simpler to use timepiece? That’s the possibility we are challenging at TimeFlix
