One thing's for sure. The Titan JUXT wasn't built with women in mind. It's big and chunky and really quite heavy. Any delicate maidenly wrist has had it, carrying the JUXT around. Luckily, there are other options around, leaving this one solely to the menfolk.

The JUXT is that hefty perhaps because it boasts of a five-day battery life. A little hard plastic cradle fits on the underside and then you put in a regular micro-USB cable to charge. The long battery life is important because the watch really is a bridge between the conventional analog watch and the total smartwatch. It's essentially still a regular watch but has a little OLED black and white display on the physical watch-face, which is the window to the smart part.

Like all smartwatches, the JUXT connects to your phone via Bluetooth and an app (Android or iOS). Various settings and preferences are obviously through the app while controlling things like navigation and scrolling and calling up features is through the crown and buttons on one side of the watch.

The watch comes in a rose gold, steel or titanium build. I'm not sure why they did the rose gold considering that’s more likely to appeal to women (while the size and weight won’t), but these days you never know. One presumes they've done their research at Titan. The leather straps are nice and thick and strong. More than any other I've seen, it smells of leather. Men should like it quite a bit.

The JUXT watch is "engineered by HP" which is how the smartness has been brought into a watch that otherwise Titan would need no help with at all being a long-established conventional watch company.

The watch is not, contrary to expectation, based on Android Wear or any of the other operating systems smartwatches use. And so, the presentation of smart features really is very different from a smartwatch today. It's subtle and limited to that little strip of a display inside the main watch.

Yes, there’s a Titan App, both for Android and Apple iOS

What it does is to push notifications from the phone to the watch: WhatsApp messages, call alerts, SMS, Twitter reply, email, and so on. It also counts steps -- but has no other fitness functions.

The Juxt is like a conventional watch with a small OLED black-and-white 'smart' display (hence the 5-day battery life)

It's obviously aimed at those who don't want to go all-smartwatch but maybe enter the territory a little while still keeping the old loved look of a proper watch.

The JUXT costs Rs 15,995 for the steel, Rs 17,995 for the rose gold, and Rs 19,995 for the titanium, which really isn't bad for a watch that looks pretty premium.

Lila Ray is a corporate consultant who likes her gadgets almost more than her shoes. Write to her at [email protected]

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