Initially, the idea of robots taking over the earth doesn’t sound too promising. But if the aforementioned robots happened to be Daft Punk it probably would be quite agreeable with lots of euphoric melodies and filter disco sounds yoked together with a sci-fi aesthetic. But that’s not going to happen now. This week Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo announced they were pulling the plug on Daft Punk. The news is particularly regrettable given that we never got a chance to find out what sort of watches the French dance music pioneers wear, but here are our unconfirmed suspicions. Hamilton PSR Based on a concept clock that Hamilton had created specifically for Stanley Kubrick’s interplanetary opus, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the world’s first electronic digital wristwatch was presented to the world in 1970 with no moving parts and an LED digital display illuminated at the touch of a button. The idiosyncratic design was re-released last year in a standard brushed steel model and a limited edition stunner coated in yellow gold PVD. Price: USD$995 G-Shock Full Metal Grid Tunnel GMW-B5000 Daft Punk famously provided the soundtrack to Tron: Legacy (2010), as well as briefly appearing in the film. The G-Shock…
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