Yes I’m clearly biased since I designed this for my own preferences
anybody with the brass, aluminum, or titanium versions is welcome to share their thoughts.
The brass Pocket Watch is a blast. Hefty and zippy. It has a snappy response that pops right back rather quick. It sleeps nice and has a pleasant warm ting as it fires down the string. Very stable sleeper too. It’s a bit shy of a silver dollar. Almost landed a stall, the gap is tiny. It’s fun to forward pass but careful, because it comes back with as much energy as you put into it. It is a trinket of the highest degree and a must have if you like tiny throws
Kitty.
That’s Nimbus. Flame point siamese
Here is Nimbus sitting on my wireless charger. Cats charge I guess
Pretending to be a bird
Perfection. ![]()
Here was some of mine from the RIP and Pocket watch for comparison to start!
I have also been okayed to let 'er rip on my Demons Fun and Tardy impressions as well! ![]()
The Tardy:
Full-sized version of the Pocket Watch, anodized in a “Space Traveling Time Booth Blue.”
If the original Pocket Watch is a surgical scalpel, this is a lightsaber.
It plays like a perfect 1:1 upscale of everything I loved about the original. It’s snappy, doesn’t feel too heavy for an upscale, and still possesses that eerie “tractor beam” that sucks the string into a stall almost every single time. I still also don’t fully understand the physics behind how an ultra-slim-line can be this stable outside of engineering wizardry, but it just simply works. It’s easily one of the best slim-lines I’ve thrown, especially for an ultra-slim, and still very much pocket worthy. Plus the color in the photos doesn’t do it justice, it’s crazy good.
The Demons Fun:
The Tardy’s final form in blasted Titanium. I am absolutely smitten with this one as well. Even with the slight tweaks to the wall thickness to account for the Ti weight, it captures the soul of the series perfectly. The blasted finish is nice for tape-measures and other grinds even on a Ti, and it has that distinct titanium “hum” as you’re playing that makes it very enjoyable. It’s much lighter than I expected but packs a CRAZY amount of power. Rockets back to the hand even when you think the spin is dead. While for me personally, it feels ever so slightly less magnetically attracted to the string than its siblings. But it’s not a downside at all though, it’s still LEAGUES above any other slimline in that regards, and stalls way easier than it has any right to!
Both of these are absolute winners. They feel like two different flavors of the same magic. Even though they’re so similar to each other, they both play differently enough that they feel unique, which is fun. Demons Fun especially is going to be awesome to just throw in the pocket and go anywhere, while the Tardy can be my carpet princess because of that beautiful anodize, haha. If I had to choose again, I would certainly get both (and a Pocket Watch!).
Me, with minor hearing damage, after playing with this off and on for an hour in a doctors office waiting room thinking I was being soooo quiet.
It’s quiet compared to most YoYo’s so that’s a good thing ![]()
Yeah I can normally hear titanium “singing” and hate it lol so imagine my surprise when I read that ![]()
I have high frequency hearing loss so I hear like half of high pitch stuff. Birds are like so sneaky to me.
Me as well. If I’m in the next room over I can’t hear the microwave when it beeps. Got hearing aids a couple years ago. When I was a 13 I got hit my a car and got 7 teeth knocked out and have had dentures since. Let’s just say at 40 I feel like an old person sometimes ![]()
I’ve lost low tones from working in massive enterprise and cloud datacenters without protective hearing stuff for a decade. Don’t be like me protect them ears. My wife hates that I don’t hear her when she’s talking at me from across the room
I have hearing aids but I never wear them since it’s just high frequencies. I usually just get horribly overstimulated if I wear them. I feel like sounds are attacking me.
It’s VERY minor, but just enough to tell it’s there. Like a bell on its final echo death throes. I personally love it, haha
Thanks for sharing Collin! ![]()
I think I’ll be interested in the Tardy. That blue is awesome looking too!
If I could be so bold as to offer a design recommendation potentially for V2 or production (despite not having played it at all
), I really love the dimpled nipple from the ZGRT El Tio. It has an incredible aesthetic with the way it swoops from the flat face to the nipple column.
I think a transition like this would also look great on the Tardy.
It may add a little more center weight, although in my experience, it can be good to have some center weight on a 0A yo-yo as I find it helps the yo-yo do flips/spins with more finesse.
Anyways, you can totally ignore my ramblings if you like. ![]()
I’m hesitant to mess with weight distribution on this one as I feel I hit a real sweet spot with it, and some of the other attributes might trade off if I adjust it.
Right now I’m finding it easier to kickflip that most of my other yo-yos but that could be a my personal preference thing so I’ll inquire with the testers if they find it difficult.
I will say I do love those hubs though and I have a polycarbonate design with similar(ish) hubs in the pipeline.
I’m honestly tempted to say I like the way this one is as it is.
Same as well, I’d hate for the magic to be compromised. Saving it for the one in the pipeline though is a good potential.
Ya I hear that folks! Sounds good!
Hey @AudreySickburn, how did your take on the RBC pads turn out? You were looking to do a low shore (maybe 30?) run of pads, right?
















