Looking for a decidedly unsmart watch that does nothing however inform the time and perhaps promote a 22-year-old movie franchise that’s returning to theaters this month with one other sequel? Hamilton Watches is as soon as once more resurrecting the world’s first digital watch however with an updated display that now pays homage to the distinct type of The Matrix movies.

The Pulsar P2 2900 LED digital watch, co-developed by the Hamilton Watch Company and Electro/Data Inc., is greatest recognized for exhibiting up on the wrist of the world’s most well-known gadget aficionado, James Bond, within the movie Live and Let Die. The watch was initially launched in 1972 for $2,100 (the equal of paying $13,000 for a watch as we speak) and was not solely the primary to swap analog arms on a dial for an LED digital display displaying numbers, however the P2 2900 was additionally one of many first watches to make use of a quartz crystal to maintain correct time—expertise nonetheless utilized in low cost digital timepieces as we speak.

Finding a classic Pulsar P2 2900 on the market isn’t terribly troublesome as we speak, nor are they prohibitively costly to purchase. They simply may not work in addition to you’d count on them to, which is why final yr Hamilton Watches created a contemporary clone of the Pulsar known as the Hamilton PSR. It works identical to the unique did, however as an alternative of solely displaying the time when a button on the aspect of the watch is pressed, it switches from utilizing an always-on LCD display to an OLED which makes the time a lot simpler to learn in vibrant mild. For 2021, Hamilton is updating the PSR to the PSR MTX which, because the vowel-less identify implies, takes inspiration from The Matrix with the pink numbers on-screen now displayed in inexperienced, and the metallic housing and bracelet now completed in black metallic.

The metal model of final yr’s Hamilton PSR offered for $750, however the brand new PSR MTX choice will go for somewhat over $1,000 (995 Swiss Franc) and might be restricted to simply 1,999 items—the yr the primary Matrix movie was launched. Aside from retro styling, an up to date inexperienced show, and the film’s iconic digital rain sample inscribed onto the case again, the PSR MTX actually does nothing else. There’s no date performance, no timer, no stopwatch, and no alarms: it simply tells the time. But if you happen to don’t need your wrist continuously vying in your consideration, the shortage of performance would possibly really be its greatest promoting level.