unique watch guide
The worlds most unusual watches
unique watch guide
The worlds most unusual watches
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.
Cabestan Trapezium. The unique winch-watch gets new case design.
The latest version of Cabestans Winch Tourbillon watch is named the Cabestan Trapezium after its case design. Watchmaking and geometry have always intertwined, cases usually being round, rectangular or square..Cabestan offers an alternative with a trapezoidal enclosure. In geometry this is defined as a quadrilateral whose sides are unequal. No matter the angle of…
HYT Watch uses liquid to display the time.
For Baselworld 2012 new watch brand HYT will launch an unprecedented watch: it displays the time using liquid. The HYT liquid watch named the H1 it uses two liquids, one fluorescent coloured and one transparent that circulate through microtubes. Technically the closest watch I can think of to this is Concord’s C1 Quantum Gravity…
Memento Mori Watch by Fiona Kruger
The Memento Mori watch by Fiona Kruger is a skeleton watch with emphasis on the skull, it is a one off design created when she was studying at University of art and design Lausanne in Switzerland. The watch design is inspired by the 17th century skull watch of Mary Queen of Scotts, as well…
Christian van der Klaauw Aquarius Planetarium
Christian van der Klaauw specializes in Astronomical watches and his latest model the Christian van der Klaauw Aquarius Planetarium is the first in a series of twelve unique pieces. In this version the solid gold dial has been decorated by well known master engraver Kees Engelbarts and shows the constellation Aquarius. The Christian van der…
Concord C1 Tourbillon POP Gravity. Green phosphorescent nano-particles.
In 2008 Concord released its ground breaking, and breathtakingly stunning C1 Quantum Gravity, an imposing futuristic piece with a Tourbillon mounted outside the case of the watch and connected by cable-stayed bridges and featuring green phosphorescent nano-particles held in a vertical column used to indicate the battery’s power level! Now they have just released…
De Bethune DB28 watch ‘Oscar’ winnner
The Geneva “Grand Prix Watch Of The Year” can be described as the equivalent of the “Watch Oscars” and is intended to “promote horology and its prime values – namely innovation …” This year the winner was the De Bethune DB28 for which it was awarded the top prize of Aiguille d’Or . The…
IWC Portuguese Siderale Scafusia
The result of ten years of research and development the IWC Portuguese Siderale Scafusia is an astronomical watch that is a technical tour de force and the most complicated watch created by IWC so far. Its a showcase watch that IWC hopes will attract new customers and also a way of displaying IWC`s technical…
Ziiiro Celeste. Overlapping coloured discs indicate the time.
Available for order from November 18th is the new watch from Ziiiro, the Celeste. The Ziiiro Celeste is similar in style to their other models the Orbit and Gravity, the Celeste features a rather minimalistic and unconventional design that forsakes hands and markings for the use of overlapping coloured discs to tell the time…
Greubel Forsey GMT 3D titanium Globe.
Greubel and Forsey have built a name for themselves creating high-end watch complications including four different tourbillon-based watches, such as the formidable “Quadruple Tourbillon à Différentiel” (QDT). For their latest mechanical marvel the Greubel Forsey GMT they have turned their attention to creating a timepiece that displays a universal world time and a second…
2LMX Watch uses rotating drums to indicate the time.
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…
BRM TB Records – read the time safely while driving.
BRM – Bernard Richards Manufacture – Are French watchmakers whose watch designs closely relate to the world of automobile and motorcycle racing. Their “racing spirit” is evident in their watch designs and strong use of colour. Their latest the BRM TB Records has an unconventional design that lets you view the time without having to…
Itay Noy “X-Ray” Painted Skeleton Dial
Israeli Watch brand Itay Noy offers an interesting and unique art-watch. Instead of an actual skeletonized dial the “X-Ray” line of watches features a dial that shows a visual representation of what the movement looks like rather than revealing the movement itself. The Itay Noy X-ray line comes in four different colour variations and…
Artya “Son of a Gun” has real bullets in the dial.
Watch brand Artya known for their artistically designed electrically themed watches have released this one containing live ammunition, called “Son of a Gun” it should appeal to those watch collectors with a gun fetish or enjoy having long conversations with airline security. The dial mimics the appearance of a gun barrel and features six…
Urwerk UR-1001. Uber Complication pocket watch.
The stunning (and no doubt stunningly expensive) Urwerk UR-1001 Zeit Device watch is described by Urwerk as an “Uber Complication” and with its futuristic looks it certainly has an uber cool appearance too. Immediately recogniseable as an Urwerk, it is their first “pocket watch” or as they prefer to call it “Zeit Device”, its…
Breguet Only Watch features two pairs of hands.
For the Only Watch Auction Breguet has released this “piece unique” with a beautifully crafted guilloche dial decorated with a boy, arm outstretched to meet an adults hand. The dial rotates until the hands touch. According to Breguet this symbolizes “inter-generational solidarity and support for research on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy” the cause for which…