The worlds most unusual watches
The worlds most unusual watches
The face of the Hamilton Time Player is divided into nine squares, eight of which have tiles that move like a sliding puzzle. Four of the tiles are timepieces that tell the time in four locations, so its really a cleverly designed world-time watch.…
With the “O Ring” watch designer Phillip Starck has created a watch for Fossil featuring a completely see through central section. The hours are displayed using numbers and the minutes in segments using a unique holographic digital display. Other features include stainless band with…
The Cabestan Nostromo gathers its inspiration from the world of Sci-Fiction, more specifically the Ridley Scott film “Alien” and the H.R Giger designs used in it, Nostromo being the name of the spaceship. The Nostromo watch was created in collaboration with master watchmaker Eric Coudray…
Romain Jerome caused some controvercy in 2007 with the release of their Titanic DNA series of watches which used steel and coal from the ill fated ocean liner, some feeling the watches were in poor taste. However the watches proved very popular and forced…
The Diesel Faceless watch could be the watch for those who hate to be predictable. Where typically you’d expect to find the watches face, the DZ9044 intriguingly features..nothing. You soon realise you can in fact tell the time with this watch by looking at…
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…
The last model in the Urwerk 103 line was apparently partly inspired by the Mexican Fireleg Tarantula. According to Urwerk’s Martin Frei it is their first masterpiece, “it is the one that symbolises to this day the perfect balance between elegance and technicity.” It…
New model from Ladoire, the Ladoire RGT. Ladoire Geneve make avant-garde timepieces with complications. They are a fairly new Swiss company formed in 2007 and have an unconventional approach to watchmaking. This can be clearly seen in some of the design features of the…
Whats the formula for a cool watch? Well although there is no formula for coolness, its subjective, one way to invest something with coolness is to associate the product, in this case a watch, with someone who is already considered cool.
This LED watch commemorates the 55th Anniversary of Leiji Matsumoto – well-known creator of several anime and manga series, most famous for his “space opera” Space Battleship Yamato. The substantial Skull shaped case of the Leiji Meter watch is made from a special oxidation…
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 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…
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…
Urwerk 203 Urwerk was formed in 1997 by watchmaker brothers Felix and Thomas Baumgartner along with designer and friend Martin Frei. The name is derived from the city of Ur “where our perception of time was molded over 6000 years ago by the moving…
This is the “Sapphire Vision” version of MB&F`s Horological Machine No. 2 called the MB&F HM2-SV. The main difference is the substitution of the metal front plate of the watch for a large 3.6mm thick sapphire crystal so that a view of the entire…
HD3 Complication Bi Axial Black Pearl With the success of the Vulcania model, HD3 brought out its bi-axial tourbillon with the launch of the new and most exclusive Black Pearl range. For this new adventure Fabrice Gonet was inspired by the wonderful era of…