The worlds most unusual watches
The worlds most unusual watches
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The resolutely technical design of the MCT Sequential One – S110, an evolution of the previous model made by Eric Giroud, is the work of watchmaking designer Fabrice Gonet. Its sophisticated and immediately recognisable style is a tribute by MCT to the emergence of a style combining the avant-garde with traditional Swiss horology. The…
This past week 4N have released a video (below) via their facebook page announcing the fully functioning version of their mechanical digital watch. I wrote about the 4N watch originally back in early 2010 when it was announced. At that time there were only computer graphic representations of it available so its interesting to…
Newly announced watch brand 2LMX has released its first watch . The brand has been created by Arnaud Tellier, the former head of the Geneva Patek Philippe museum. The 2LMX watch is a mechanical digital watch and indicates the time using a 24-hour format. It uses rotating drums on which the digits are displayed…
The new Harry Winston Opus 11 is sure to arouse great interest with its highly unusual and fascinating display. Denis Giguet, designer of the Opus 11 says that the idea of “how to explode the time” was the genesis for the creation of the Opus 11, the latest in the Harry Winston Opus series of…
Having a more traditional appearance, this second version the F.P.Journe “Vagabondage II” features a manual wind movement and original digital time display. Equipped with a 40 hour power reserve which is indicated at the top of the dial via blue hand and gauge, the seconds are displayed in analog fashion at the 6 o’clock…
Angular Momentum is a small, independent Swiss watch manufacturer and self described creator of “unique and extraordinary timepieces.” This is the Angular Momentum “Bruyer Digital” With their digital series of watches the time is displayed using two revolving discs which are visible through an aperture in the Bruyer wooden plate that is mounted behind…
This is the first watch with a minute repeater that A. Lange & Söhne have fully made in house. The digital display on the Lange Zeitwerk Striking Time gives the dial plenty of room for a chiming mechanism that is visible in its face, the gongs and hammers on the left and right below…
With a mind-blowing power reserve of more than 1,000 hours – that’s more than 40 days – the Rebellion T1000 doesn’t simply push back the boundaries of the possible, it destroys them and creates its own reality. After the successful presentation in January of The Predator, their first watch with a round case, Rebellion launched…
First released in prototype form in 2003 and designed by Vianney Halter for Harry Winston, the Opus III initially had various problems. The most serious was how to generate enough power to turn the six discs used for the digital display. By minimizing the energy required to turn the discs this problem was solved…
This diamond encrusted watch from Harry Winston uses two bands of 33 baguette diamonds to tell the time with garnets as markers for the hours and minutes. The simple appearance of this unconventional display belies the complex automatic movement inside that powers it. The bands move around the face, conveyor belt-style, with the garnet…
The “Montre A Tact”, or in English “Tactful Watch” is a tribute to a pocket watch of the same name originally created by Breguet in 1798. The Breguet pocket watch could be read by feeling it, without the need to remove it from the pocket, something considered rude when in polite company, or a…
The 4N mechanical digital watch uses 3 sets of discs with numbers that rotate to tell the time. French company 4N derives its name from the “four numbers” on a digital counter which represent the time and this is their first watch. The company was setup by François Quentin who is co-founder of Hautlence…
This Seiko mechanical digital watch, the Seiko “Discus” as its name suggests uses the revolving disc method for displaying the time. The outer ring for hours, the middle for minutes and the innermost for seconds. As well as a couple of tiny green arrows the small aperture for viewing the time has a crystal…
The De Grisogono Meccanica is described as the most complicated mechanical digital watch in the world and consists of 651 pieces. Its apparently the first entirely mechanical watch with a digital display that shows a second time zone. The mechanically driven digital display is operated by a series of cams and gears, the digital…
The Digiteur is an elegant synthesis of the past and the present and as implied by its name, uses a digital display, one that was popular in the 1920’s and 1930’s using printed discs which rotate to display hours, minutes and seconds. Chronoswiss developed a unique mechanism to support this digital display. The minute…