10 Petrolhead Watches for Automotive Enthusiasts

Petrolhead watches are gaining popularity among car enthusiasts since they are a great way to express one’s love for cars. Wearing a petrolhead watch shows that you are a car enthusiast and that you appreciate the finer details of automotive design, you will also…

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Urwerk UR-112 Aggregat a “wrist spacecraft” inspired by Star Wars

The Urwerk UR-112 Aggregat is a wristwatch unlike any other, referred to by the brand as a “wrist spacecraft.” The UR-112 Aggregat Odyssée by URWERK is inspired by spacecraft from popular science fiction universes like Star Wars, Watchmen, Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica. The…

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The Barrelhand P1 features unusual design and display

The Barrelhand P1 watch features an unusual way to tell the time with a Geneva jump hour display at the top and a linear minute system at the bottom. The case is made out of a lightweight grade 5 titanium is CNC machined and…

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Hublot Big Bang MP-11 uses unusual material “Saxem”

Hublot, always on the lookout for new technologies, has just unveiled a limited edition of 20 copies of its Big Bang MP-11 (with a 14 day power reserve) with a 45 mm case (water resistant to 30 meters) in Saxem, an innovative material with…

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Crazy steampunk watch creations from Japanese designer.

A new steampunk watch was recently created by Japanese designer FRISK_P whose mission statement is “to make wristwatches that nobody else makes”. And she certainly creates unique watches, even outrageous ones! I can imagine these being used in some retro-futuristic movie. In terms of…

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New Nixie watch designs from Ukraine

Nixie watches seem to have been growing in popularity lately, these new Nixie watch models use unique indicator lamps IN-16, IV-9 and IV-3A  which were manufactured in Ukraine. The Era model is pictured above but they come in three different models – the Nixoid,…

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Dick Tracy watch – comic book watch brought to life

1946 was the year the Dick Tracy watch was first introduced in comic strip form. A futuristic spy gadget featuring a two-way radio it captured peoples imagination and has continued to do so, it certainly held a fascination for Connecticut-based brothers Nick and Charlie…

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MB&F creation is inspired by jellyfish, the HM7 Aquapod

The founder of MB&F, Maximillian Busser had the idea for the MB&F Horological Machine N°7 Aquapod when a jellyfish stung his wife’s foot. Every year, there is an anticipation for what MB&F will come up with and having pushed the limits of watchmaking by propelling…

Daniel Strom Giger tribute watch features Alien designs

With Halloween just round the corner, something a little darker for you, a watch or “wrist sculpture”  featuring  the Alien designs from the mind of H.R Giger. The case includes heads and skull pieces taken from Giger’s Biomechanoid creature , while the dial forms a spectacular…

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“Whisky Watch” contains world’s oldest whisky.

Timekeeping meets the Scottish art of distillation in the Whisky Watch, an unusual watch which features  a chamber embedded in the dial containing a single drop of the worlds oldest whisky, a Glenlivet 1862. The Whisky Watch is a partnership between watchmaker Louis Moinet and…

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Worlds first mechanical watch pen, the Anura Rafael Write Time

The Anura Rafael Write Time is the worlds first mechanical watch pen. Combining a tourbillon watch and fountain pen into one, the Anura Rafael Write Time is a unique convertible objet d’art that transforms from watch to pen and vice versa. Its made up of what…

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Konstantin Chaykin Joker watch

Batman watches are all the rage with the impressive looking Romain Jerome Batman watch featuring the bat signal on the dial, the awesome looking Rebellion T-1000 Gotham as well as the futuristic Romain Jerome Spacecraft Batman watch. Now Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin has come out with…

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First watch made from cheese, the Swiss Mad Watch.

This ones not for the lactose intolerant watch lover. The CEO of Moser Edouard Meylan describes the aptly named “Swiss Mad Watch” as “unique, symbolic, and irreverent”,  but it could also be called cheesy and I’m not talking about its looks but the material its made…