Classical Smartwatches: The New Mechanical Watch"
Contactless payment could come to your mechanical dress watch soon. Brands have to decide what to do with this new technology.
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Imagine that it is already deep into 2021, and while mitigated, the coronavirus precautions are still in place. Somewhere in VivoCity, Paragon or Suntec, a man enters one of the shops and selects his purchases. In Singapore?s ?new normal?, cash and other forms of contact payments are eschewed. Thus, the man utilises contactless payment, by extending his wrist, adorned by a Philippe Patek wristwatch, near to the payment reader. The result is a confirmation beep. The transaction is completed, and the man is good to go with his items, after declining a printed receipt as it will be sent to his email. What was interesting about the man?s watch was that it was not an Apple Watch, Garmin or Samsung; rather a classical timepiece, and although we use Patek Philippe as an example, it could be anything.
Horophiles would be intrigued. How is this possible" A classical timepiece, in all its metal faraday caged glory, able to perform a wireless payment function" This was not possible before, but with the development of STISS (Swiss Technology Inside Smart Sapphire) this is now a reality, allowing classical timepieces to be used as a payment device. It could be said that the analog has now been digitalised.
The STISS chip that would be integrated into any given mech...
The post Classical Smartwatches: The New Mechanical Watch" appeared first on LUXUO.
Imagine that it is already deep into 2021, and while mitigated, the coronavirus precautions are still in place. Somewhere in VivoCity, Paragon or Suntec, a man enters one of the shops and selects his purchases. In Singapore?s ?new normal?, cash and other forms of contact payments are eschewed. Thus, the man utilises contactless payment, by extending his wrist, adorned by a Philippe Patek wristwatch, near to the payment reader. The result is a confirmation beep. The transaction is completed, and the man is good to go with his items, after declining a printed receipt as it will be sent to his email. What was interesting about the man?s watch was that it was not an Apple Watch, Garmin or Samsung; rather a classical timepiece, and although we use Patek Philippe as an example, it could be anything.
Horophiles would be intrigued. How is this possible" A classical timepiece, in all its metal faraday caged glory, able to perform a wireless payment function" This was not possible before, but with the development of STISS (Swiss Technology Inside Smart Sapphire) this is now a reality, allowing classical timepieces to be used as a payment device. It could be said that the analog has now been digitalised.
The STISS chip that would be integrated into any given mech...
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