This $195 Watch Is a Marvel of Y2K Blob Design

Distinguished by soft, fluid shapes and bright colors, blobjects would define cutting-edge design in the late ’90s and early aughts. Oakley Eye Jackets? Blobject. The VW New Beetle? Blobject. Translucent blue iMac G3? Peak blobject. The Big Tic wasn’t the only blobject watch (the Nike Triax and Oakley Time Bomb are other textbook examples), but its amorphous ana-digi design offered something unique. “The Big Tic captured a very specific late-’90s tech moment,” says Ryan White,…