Simply Beautiful & Beautifully Simple.
Say no to cheap plastic toys with complicated user manuals. Play the game you love with the best equipment possible. Elegant, rugged, innovative design from Tempest.
Set it. Dock it. Rock it.
Tempest™ chess clocks combine the best of two worlds: a beautiful, mechanical, tactile base with a sophisticated, easy-to-use game timer app. (it uses your phone's own gyroscope and therefore needs no batteries! clever isn't it?) It docks with phones large or small, new or old. Devices as large as Galaxy Ultra, Pixel XL, and iPhone Max fit snugly.
The UI design is incredibly clean and simple (no user manual is needed). Even complex time controls are set in seconds: Just swipe to set, and play.
Supports all standard chess, backgammon, go, and scrabble time controls: increments, delays, tournament periods, byoyomi periods and overtime. Tempest plays them all with a design worthy to be seen next to the most beautiful sets.
COMPLETE FEATURE WALKTHROUGH
No user manual needed! Just swipe, set, and play. Compare Tempest's intuitive and attractive UI and feature set to any clock on the market. We're sure you'll agree, it puts all the others to shame.
2022 Complete Walkthrough
All the features you need, nothing you don’t.
Version 1.0 available now
ONE GAME CHANGING CLOCK. TWO BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS.
TEMPEST DELUXE CHESS CLOCK $79
The finest materials. No compromises.
Made with premium genuine leather and crafted from a block of solid black walnut. Each Tempest Deluxe is unique, with variations in both leathers and woods. Natural materials patina beautifully with use. It's internally sound dampened and weighted with heavy gauge steel, fully lined with non-slip silicone. As refined as it gets and worthy of its place alongside any of your most valuable sets.
IN STOCK and shipping from US. But Temporarily sold out from our EU warehouses. EU customers, you can still get free shipping from our partners at Backgammon Galaxy here.
TEMPEST CLASSIC CHESS CLOCK $49
Our gold standard is all black.
Bundled with the same software and made with the same smooth rocker mechanism as the Deluxe edition, Tempest Classic features ultra-smooth synthetic (vegan) leather on a durable polycarbonate base. Finished in contrasting matte and high gloss piano black. Full-sized non-slip silicone pad. Weighted with heavy-gauge steel. Tempest is refined and battle ready. It's your move.
“Simple. Solid. Slick.
I’m a big fan of the Tempest Clock!”
WIM Fiona Steil-Antoni puts Tempest to the test
Tempest Story “It’s odd that game clocks haven’t evolved. In some ways, they’ve gotten worse.”
Other clocks are cheaply made, hard to use & fugly
“Amazing and Unusual.
The analog is as perfect as the digital.”
WGM Dina Belenkaya
THIS IS NOT A PHONE*
TEMPEST'S TOURNAMENT MODE IS STRICT. DURING PLAY IT DISABLES ALL PHONE FUNCTIONS, SO THE DEVICE IS JUST A SCREEN AND NOTHING MORE. NO CALLS. NO TEXTS. NO CHEATING. NO BULLSHIT.
We ❤️ TDs: Tempest has the easiest tournament settings ever, even for 3-period 'championship time controls'. Tempest's UI makes other clocks look absurd. Even complex time controls are unbelievably simple with Tempest!
eg. First 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour, then all the rest in 30 minutes (with 30 sec. increments). This sentence is exactly how Tempest is set! No need to RTFM ever again. So Simple!
EXPERT OPINIONS
App included with purchase. Compatible with iPhone & iPod Touch 5 & up and all Android phones (4.1 KitKat and above)
ONE GAME CHANGING CLOCK. TWO BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS.
TEMPEST DELUXE CHESS CLOCK $79
The finest materials. No compromises.
Made with premium genuine leather and crafted from a block of solid black walnut. Each Tempest Deluxe is unique, with variations in both leathers and woods. Natural materials patina beautifully with use. It's internally sound dampened and weighted with heavy gauge steel, fully lined with non-slip silicone. As refined as it gets and worthy of its place alongside any of your most valuable sets.
IN STOCK and shipping from US. But Temporarily sold out from our EU warehouses. EU customers, you can still get free shipping from our partners at Backgammon Galaxy here.
TEMPEST CHESS CLOCK - CLASSIC $49
Our gold standard is all black.
Bundled with the same software and made with the same smooth rocker mechanism as the Deluxe edition, Tempest Classic features ultra-smooth synthetic (vegan) leather on a durable polycarbonate base. Finished in contrasting matte and high gloss piano black. Full-sized non-slip silicone pad. Weighted with heavy-gauge steel. Tempest is refined and battle ready. It's your move.