Moto 360 Gold Variant and Leather Cognac Band Listed Briefly on Amazon

Online retail giant Amazon jumped the gun on Thursday and listed the Moto 360 smartwatch's gold, or Champagne Metal (metal body and metal band) all-metal variant, and new Leather Cognac band, before promptly pulling it down.

The Champagne Metal Moto 360 variant(seen above) was listed with two widths of metal bands (18mm and 23mm) and featured a $299.99 (roughly Rs. 18,400) price tag, while the regular Moto 360 body with the new Leather Cognac strap was listed briefly with a $249 (roughly Rs.15,300 ) price tag. There is no word on the prices of standalone products as of now. Notably, the gold version was also spotted online last month.

Though the new smartwatch variant and the band Amazon listings were obviously not meant to go live at that point, an impending release is in-line with Motorola's previous announcement of introducing new leather bands along with metal options when it first launched the Moto 360.

The firm also announced that the leather bands would cost extra $29.99 (roughly Rs. 1,800), metal bands $79.99 (roughly Rs. 4,900) and $299 (roughly Rs. 18,400) for all metal option.

Despite Amazon pulling the listings, readers can view the web-caches (via Droid Life) of the Moto 360 Champagne Metal with 23mm band, Moto 360 Champagne Metal with 18mm band, and Moto 360 with Leather Cognac band pages.

The Moto 360, which is compatible with smartphones running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or higher, features a 1.56-inch backlit-LCD display with a resolution of 320x290 pixels - translating to a pixel density of 205ppi. It features Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. Motorola's first smartwatch features a diameter of 46mm, and is 11.5mm thick. It weighs 49 grams with the leather strap.

The Android Wear smartwatch also features a 320mAh battery, supports wireless charging and comes with a charging dock. The Moto 360 is powered by a TI OMAP 3 processor (exact chipset unspecified), coupled with 512MB of RAM. Other specs include 4GB of built-in storage, Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy, pedometer, and optical heart rate monitor (PPG) also comes featured within the device.