Category Unique Watches

Watches are not only functional but also serve as a fashion statement. Many watchmakers have taken this a step further by creating watches with unique and unusual designs that capture the attention of watch enthusiasts and fashion lovers alike. In this category, you will discover watches that have unique and unusual designs.

Grieb and Benzinger Pharos Centurion Imperial in Palladium  1

Grieb and Benzinger Pharos Centurion Imperial in Palladium

Grieb and Benzinger specialize in creating watches with handmade dials and taking vintage and antique movements and bringing them to life again. This is done by painstakingly reworking them so they bear little resemblance to their original state. For the first time they have released an entirely black model, the Grieb & Benzinger Pharos…

Greubel Forsey GMT Black: different colour same mechanical marvel. 1

Greubel Forsey GMT Black: different colour same mechanical marvel.

Making its debut at the upcoming SIHH 2015 the Greubel Forsey GMT Black is a new version of the world-time watch they released in 2011. It features the same asymmetrical-shaped case as the original (43.5 mm by 16.14 mm) but now in a blackened titanium case treated with vacuum-deposited ADLC (amorphous diamond-like carbon) a…

Nevo minimalist smartwatch 3

Nevo minimalist smartwatch

The Nevo is a smartwatch that combines activity tracking and phone notifications but using a minimalist analogue design. In order to track activity goals this smartwatch uses eleven bright white LED indicators which have been embedded around the névo dial. These are used to measure goal progression and to give feedback of your activity…

Quirky Projects Twirler watch has offset hands. 1

Quirky Projects Twirler watch has offset hands.

At first you could be forgiven for thinking that reading the time is not an easy task with this Projects Twirler watch. It appears to be a bit disconcerting but although its a quirky design its not that difficult to read. Basically the hands of the Projects Twirler have moved outward from the center of the…

HYT H1 Alumen Blue 1

HYT H1 Alumen Blue

The HYT H1 Alumen Blue, a new version of this unusual watch using liquid to tell the time. Fluids and mechanical watch technology do not go so well together. So how does someone get it into their head to take a liquid reservoir and put it in a watch case? In 2002, that was exactly what…

Giuliano Mazzuoli releases watch made of marble. 1

Giuliano Mazzuoli releases watch made of marble.

Cradle of the Renaissance and home to some of the greatest masters of the arts the world has ever known, Florence is a showcase of magnificence. Giuliano Mazzuoli is proud of his Florentine roots, and when asked what does the wondrous place he comes from inspire him to create, this time the answer comes…

HDD watch: a micro hard disc drive turned into a watch. 1

HDD watch: a micro hard disc drive turned into a watch.

The HDD watch is a creation that was successfully funded on Indiegogo and created by watchmaker Jean Jerome and is the first watch to be made from a hard disc drive. Jerome explains that although its made from a computers hard disk drive this is not a smart watch by any means and only serves to…

Artya watches for 2014. 1

Artya watches for 2014.

Artya is an unusual watch brand that creates “watch art” by employing two teams of people in their workshop, one team is made up of artists and the other watchmakers together they come up with some very interesting designs, here are a couple of new Artya watches for 2014. The Son of a Gun…

Romain Jerome Batman watch features the bat signal. 1

Romain Jerome Batman watch features the bat signal.

For the 75th anniversary of Batman, the Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome unveiled this limited edition DNA Batman watch in a series of 75 watches in homage to the age of Bruce Wayne, with a dial that bears the emblem of Batman in black lacquer. Bruce Wayne by day, by night; Batman: Gotham City’s protector…

Jacob Jensen Curve features clean, elegant design. 1

Jacob Jensen Curve features clean, elegant design.

Jacob Jensen the man behind the design studio is best known for his work with Bang and Olufsen. It’s been a while since the Jacob Jensen design studio launched a whole new watch line, but the Jacob Jensen Curve series has now been launched and presents clean lines and elegant design, Jacob Jensen watch designs…

The BOLT-68, a bullhead watch that converts into a pocket watch. 1

The BOLT-68, a bullhead watch that converts into a pocket watch.

Bomberg is a  fairly new watch brand, being established  in 2012 in Neuchâtel, the heart of Swiss watchmaking. For 2014 they introduced the BOLT-68 collection. Its an interesting and unconventional watch in the mold of the ‘Bullhead’ design which originally started appearing in the 60’s but is still being used even by major brands, Omega…

Division Furtive Type 50 has "Flux Capacitor" dial. 1

Division Furtive Type 50 has “Flux Capacitor” dial.

Division Furtive has announced the production of the Type 50 wristwatch, a new design following its first dual-linear watch: the Type 40, covered here. Like the Type 40 it features an accelerometer enabling the watch to respond to movement so time is displayed when you twist your wrist in front of you. The dial of the…

Accurate to 1.5 seconds in a 1000yrs the Hoptroff No. 16 Atomic Wristwatch 1

Accurate to 1.5 seconds in a 1000yrs the Hoptroff No. 16 Atomic Wristwatch

The Hoptroff No. 16 Atomic Wrist watch. After inventing the first Atomic Pocket Watch, the Hoptroff No 10 (pictured below) the company has now released their first Atomic Wrist watch, the Hoptroff No. 16. Accurate to 1.5 seconds each thousand years it jointly shares the accolade of most accurate wristwatch with the first Atomic powered…

Parmigiani Bugatti Mythe 1

Parmigiani Bugatti Mythe

  Introducing the Parmigiani Bugatti Mythe. Since 2004, the Swiss brand Parmigiani has collaborated with Bugatti, and over the years the two brands have come together on several occasions to produce a range of cutting edge timepieces such as the previously mentioned Parmigiani Bugatti Super Sport. With unique designs that mesmerize their watches also…

The Vincent Calabrese Régulus flying tourbillon 1

The Vincent Calabrese Régulus flying tourbillon

  Just introduced for Baselworld 2014 is a renewed version of the Vincent Calabrese Régulus Flying Tourbillon. Calabrese currently works for Corum and is responsible for the creation of the amazing Golden Bridge. He is also one of the founders of the AHCI. The Regulus features a 36mm transparent case made from Sapphire and…

Spacey design for new De Bethune "Dream Watch 5" 1

Spacey design for new De Bethune “Dream Watch 5”

De Bethune Dream Watch 5 De Bethune descibes its new “Dream Watch 5” as “an authentic wrist sculpture” It derives its unusual shape from its predecessors, from the bridge of Dream Watch 1 through to the case of Dream Watch 4: it encapsulates an ongoing work of research on shapes, materials and colours. In…