Until Nintendo decides to make a gaming watch (don’t faux such as you wouldn’t put on a Time Boy) it looks like the closest we’ll get to Mario formally being on a wearable is Tag Heuer collaborations, together with two new Mario Kart themed timepieces with some enjoyable mechanical engineering and fewer enjoyable astronomical value tags.

This isn’t truly the primary time Nintendo has collaborated with Tag Heuer on a themed wearable. Last 12 months, the 2 firms joined forces for the Tag Heuer Super Mario Connected smartwatch, which desperately tried to justify a $2,150 price ticket with Mario-themed watch faces and animations, together with some that would solely be revealed if a wearer accomplished completely different percentages of their day by day step objective. Understandably, regardless of oozing with Nintendo Easter Eggs that followers clamor for, simply 2,000 of the expensive watches had been created.

For their follow-up collaboration, Tag Heuer is as an alternative bringing Mario Kart theming to a pair of extra conventional mechanical watches that, as you’ve most likely guessed, are much more costly.

The extra reasonably priced of the 2 new releases (with reasonably priced doing fairly a little bit of heavy lifting right here) is the $4,300 Tag Heuer Formula 1 X Mario Kart Limited Edition Chronograph, which is powered by an automated Calibre 16 chronograph motion. The dial is roofed in a race-inspired checkered sample and three sub-dials, together with one displaying the seconds with Mario on a go-kart on the 60-second mark.

The timepiece additionally incorporates a devoted date window, however as an alternative of displaying the day of the month, it reveals a brand new Mario Kart power-up every single day (like a star, banana peel, or Bullet Bill).

But in case your love of Mario Kart is aware of no monetary bounds, you’ll wish to go for the brand new Tag Heuer Formula 1 X Mario Kart Limited Edition Chronograph Tourbillon, which is available in a barely bigger 45-millimeter titanium case that makes use of a sapphire crystal caseback to disclose the watch’s interior actions in addition to a self-winding rotor engraved with Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach silhouettes.

On the entrance, a big open dial on the six o’clock place reveals the timepiece’s 60-second tourbillon that rotates together with a dial that includes Mario in a go-kart being chased by Bullet Bill and a dreaded blue shell. Just 250 of the Tag Heuer Formula 1 X Mario Kart Limited Edition Chronograph Tourbillon are being made, with a gut-wrenching $25,600 price ticket.