The worlds most unusual watches
The worlds most unusual watches
“Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” said Einstein. It could, however be the cause of your attraction to the Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon Its visual spectacle is all about gravity. An arsenal of Three tourbillons combat the adverse gravitational effects on time with this the third in Harry Winston’s series…
Do you want to have the power to slow down and speed up time? Well with the “La Clé Du Temps” -in English “The key of time”- Hublot have devised a watch that gives you this highly unusual function. You can make the watch go faster or slower than normal time by using a…
Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer famous for his wit and advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade was apparently the inspiration behind the Manufacture Royale Opera. Would he have approved? Hard to know. Its quite an extravagance, given the time in which he lived , probably only Louis XV could…
Parmigiani teamed up with Bugatti to create a watch for their 16C Galibier car and the Parmigiani Bugatti Tourbillon Watch was the result. Its a convertible watch designed to be four timepieces in one. The 16C is a four seat luxury sedan which shares the W16 8.0L engine of the Bugatti Veyron, but with two…
The >Greubel Forsey Invention Piece No.2 – (Invention Piece No 3 was released prior to this one) by Greubel Forsey is another technological marvel with a movement comprised of 594 components and featuring no less than four tourbillons. Two double tourbillons are displayed on opposite sides of the asymmetrical case and can be viewed…
The pioneer of the baguette movement, Corum, celebrates the 30th anniversary of its classic Golden Bridge model with the caliber CO213, a masterpiece of micromechanics. The company has created a tiny baguette with a tourbillion, all housed in the world’s tiniest cage, only 8.5 mm across. This movement lies on top of the watch…
The Volna Volnatomic Liquid Tourbillon is a stunning creation that is visually fascinating and features Cold War inspired shapes resembling cut-out bridges, high-powered tanks, and an atomic reactor. This is a watch that can really be appreciated in the dark, yellow paint adorns the watch face containing Super-LumiNova pigment, reminiscent of uranium storage pools and…
Part of an actual fossilized dinosaur bone found in Western North America from about 150 million years ago is contained within the dial of the Louis Moinet Jurassic Tourbillon. A particularly exceptional example was chosen by specialists due to its beautiful colouring and veining. The watch box comes with a genuine fossilized dinosaur egg…
Haldimann clocks and watches are all individual and unique pieces, they are all made in-house (except for crystals and straps). Their philosophy is “to focus on the essence, and above all on simplification” With the Haldimann H8 this philosophy has been takento a radical and uncompromising conclusion, creating a timepiece that has been reduced down…
To mark their 80th anniversary Pininfarina teamed up with Bovet to create the Ottanta Tourbillon watch. A very versatile timepiece it has the unique ability to be transformed into both a pocket watch and miniature table clock through the use of a convertible case which allows the owner to switch styles without use of…