https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/3/17933064/lg-watch-w7-wear-os-smartwatch-hybrid-price-features-release-date

Alongside the V40 ThinQ, LG is also announcing its latest smartwatch today. The Watch W7 is easily the company’s most unique wearable yet because of its hybrid design. The W7 has mechanical hands in front of its round, 1.2-inch touch display running Wear OS. (You wouldn’t easily be able to tell from LG’s press images, but I’ll have actual hands-on photos later today.) It will sell for $450 at Best Buy beginning on October 14th; preorders will be available on October 7th.

Since mechanical watches are a little outside its wheelhouse, LG worked with a company called Soprod in designing the watch’s mechanical functions and movements. “In addition to keeping accurate time, the mechanical hands also display additional information such as altimeter, barometer, stopwatch, timer and compass directions,” LG says. As a smartwatch, the Watch W7 will last for up to two days. But those mechanical hands can keep turning for up to 100 days on a charge — long after the screen turns off — in watch-only mode. The W7 has a knob and two buttons on its right side. It uses standard 22mm watch bands for easy swapping.