Diesel’s new DZ4160 watch (aka the Freak of Nature) is definitely an interesting take on the timepiece.
Can’t decide between leather and steel, gold and silver, or futuristic and simplistic? Easy, just go with all of the above and stop worrying about what’s on your wrist.
The split-faced hybrid watch is half of one watch and half of another, and it’s all been crammed together and combined to give you the best of both worlds.
Nixon’s new Time Teller P watches are meant to be a fun, easy and inexpensive way to add some style to any wardrobe.
They’re made of polyurethane and polycarbonate with a Japanese quartz movement, and come in a variety of colors that cover just about every part of the spectrum.
Price?
Just $55
If you’re in the mood for a new watch, then check out the Bell & Ross BR 01 Airborne, a limited edition, skull themed design that takes its inspiration from the US Airborne’s motto, “Death From Above”.
The all black face features a photo luminescent skull, sword hands, automatic movement, and crossbones themed accents.
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The Concord C1 Quantum Gravity watch is purely and simply a display of excess that you can wear on your wrist.
The mechanically wound movement fuels a three-day power reserve, and the energy that’s left in that reserve is displayed using a liquid filled glass column that rises and falls as the watch winds down. Yes, that’s right, I said liquid filled.
They’re only making 10 of these extremely exclusive watches, and if you have to ask, then I can guarantee you can’t afford one, but for the well heeled watch aficionado, this will more than likely be a must have.
[Concord]
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The Storm Black Screen Watch is about as subtle as they get. Press one of the buttons and red LEDs will light up to show you the time. Release, and they fade back to black.
[Hammacher Schlemmer - Storm Black Screen Watch]
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The Cabestan Winch Vertical Tourbillon is like no other watch in the world.
Time is told on two rotating drums (one for hours and one for minutes) that are made of engraved aluminum and set on ball bearings, and each drum is equipped with a resistance spring the enables you to disconnect it for time setting, as well as a small winch that is stored in the folding buckle of the bracelet that allows you to wind the watch.
However, what’s truly amazing is that this watch holds power through a chain drive that consists of 450 small links made of inoxidizable steel and riveted by hand. The chain is good for 72 hours of power reserve, and is wound around the watch in a way that follows the natural energy of the spring within.
The titanium case is made of seven components that are vacuum welded together with hydrogen in a conveyor oven, and Pyrex crystals that are thermoformed by hand cover all the bits and pieces underneath.
All this tech doesn’t come cheap however, as you’ll be paying anywhere between $275,000 and $400,000 for the privilege depending on how much bling you want, but when tech and exclusivity get together with beauty like this, money can quickly become no object for those with the means.
[Cabestan - Winch Vertical Tourbillon]
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Remember the Pong Watch that showed the time by automatically playing a game of Pong?
Well John Maushammer (the watch maker) is at it again, and this time he’s developed a watch that plays Asteroids with a flick, tilt and twist of the wrist.
In this video, you can see the second version of the Pong Watch, which includes a tilt sensor that allows you to control the game, and some buttons that allow you to change the mode, as well as a preview of the Asteroids Watch:
[Via: Nerd With Swag]
Swatch has put together a fantastic collection of 007 Villain watches for the Bond fan that spans the entire range of evildoers.
The collection takes memorable characteristics form each villain and turns them into a beautiful watch that anyone would be proud to wear, weather they’re protecting the world from evil or just trying to stay on-time to the next business meeting.
Can’t decide which watch fits you best?
Don’t worry, Swatch has put together a clever little “What’s Your Evil Nature?” quiz that lets you pick your way through a variety of characteristics to match you up with the Bond villain that fits you best, and the results are surprisingly good for a quiz that asks you what types of indulgences you celebrate victory with.
[Swatch - 077 Villain Collection]
Even if your watch contains parts of the Titanic, there’s now way it’s as cool as the Romain Jerome Moon Dust-DNA.
With a lunar inspired dial featuring real Moon dust, a steel and titanium case that incorporates steel from the Apollo XI space shuttle, rusted steel paws that include fragments form the Soyuz spacecraft, and a strap composed of fibres form a spacesuit worn during the International Space Station mission, the Moon Dust-DNA is about as cool as they come.
History doesn’t come cheap, as the watch line will range from $15,000 to more than $500,000, but it’s hard to put a price on exclusivity like this.
[Jomain Jerome - Moon Dust-DNA]
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Nooka has always been known for watches that are a little…unique, but their latest line, which drops next week and will be called the Zon, features a style that I think most people could agree with. (And a price tag that many cannot, at $650!)
The pixel system counts the time, and there’s a world time setting for world travelers.
Tired of counting pixels just to tell the time?
Not a problem. Nooka’s Zon can also be told to tell the time in a standard digital time format, though that’s probably not that important for the Zon’s intended audience.
With its leather or silver band and a subdued, sophisticated looking face however, the Zon may just represent the changing face of Nooka, though I wouldn’t worry to much about them loosing their edge.
[Nooka]
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John Taylor’s Corpus Clock, aka the Chronophage, or ‘time eater’, is an impressive looking beast of a clock that was made as a tribute to eighteenth-century clockmaker John Harrison’s grasshopper escapement, a low-friction mechanism for converting pendulum motion into rotational motion.
Despite it’s massive size (over 1.5 meters in diameter) the Corpus Clock’s inner workings are all mechanically controlled, including the world’s largest grasshopper escapement that adorns the top. Electricity does power an electric motor, which winds the clock, and blue LEDs which light up the hours, minutes, and seconds, but the blinking eye, moving mouth, swinging hands and everything else you see is all old-school mechanical.
Another interesting element of the clock is that it’s only accurate once every five minutes. The rest of the time, the pendulum can stop, the lights can lag, and then everything can race to catch up, symbolizing life’s “irregularity”. Despite this irregularity though, the clock is expected to stay accurate for the next 200 years or more.
At a cost of over one million pounds, this solid 24-karat gold clock definitely wasn’t cheap, and it took over five years for the two hundred people involved in the making of the clock to get everything put together, but if you’re going to design the world’s strangest clock, no one ever said it was going to be easy.
[Via: BBC News]
The Average Day is a fantastic watch from Mr Jones Watches that “eschews the conventional division of a day into 24 hours, instead it divides into units of median daily routine”.
By breaking the dial down into segments that represent what an average person does on an average day, you can see what you should be, on average, doing at any time.
It’s even split into AM and PM, with the outer loop representing the former, and the inner representing the latter, so that you can roll right through a full 24 hours without missing a beat.
The production is a signed limited edition of 100 pieces, and each has the edition number engraved on the back of the case, which itself features commissioned artwork by Kate Street.
At just $150, if you want one, you better hurry.
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The LIP Mythic Jump Hour Watch features three separate discs for hours, minutes, and seconds that spin exposed on the dial and then line up in the viewing window to tell the time.
With a stainless steel case, leather strap, and Swiss quartz movement, the LIP Mythic Jump Hour is also guaranteed to work as good as it looks.
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A collaboration separated by thirty years with the 1970’s “TV case & strap” design by Roger Tallon and updated as a jumping hour display by French designer Prisca Briquet for LIP.
LIP watches have been around for over 150 years but were unavailable in the United States until now. The company is reintroducing some of their most important models from a modern collection that remains as visionary today as when first unveiled 35 years ago. Most are faithful recreations while others have been updated with new designer visions.
[Watchismo - LIP Mythic Jump Hour]
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The UR-202 is the world’s first wristwatch to feature “an innovative new winding system regulated by compressing air utilizing miniature turbines”.
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Time on the UR-202 is displayed using telescopic minute hands operating through the middle of three orbiting and revolving hour satellites.
The telescopic minute hands precisely adjust their length to follow the three vectors marking the minutes: 0 -14, 15 – 44, 45 – 60. Extended, they enable the UR-202 to display the time across a large easy-to-read, dial. Retracted, they allow for a very wearable and comfortably sized case; thus providing the wearer with the best of both worlds.
If you’ve got the financial fortitude, then the UR-202 is available in either red gold, white gold, black PE-CVD platinum, and ALTiN steel.
One of each please…
[Via: The Watchismo Times]
As if mechanical-digital watches weren’t already cool enough, Harry Winston has created a watch that uses mechanical pixels to display the time at the push of a button, and called it the Opus 8.
Even the back features a second time display, with a power reserve indicator to tell you when your awesome is running low.
Only 50 were made, and apparently they all sold before the watch was even unveiled, so if you want one, then get the house on the market and start checking eBay, because these aren’t exactly going to be cheap.
[Via: The Watchismo Times]
The De Grisogono Meccanico DG is possibly the coolest watch I’ve ever seen.
Scratch that; The De Grisogono Meccanico DG is the coolest watch I’ve ever seen.
Why?
Because it’s “the first all mechanical watch with a digital display integrated into it”.
Let me repeat: An all mechanical watch with a digital display. No LEDs. No digital parts. Just 651 of the smallest watch pieces imaginable working together to make magic happen.
Sink in yet?
Basically, the DG 042 De Grisgono manual movement that powers the watch uses some sort of half magic half mystery potion to make the numbers at the bottom change every minute, and in doing so, causes shock and awe inside of anyone that sees it.
It’s either that, or they figured out how to shrink little elves and keep them alive inside of the watch, but I prefer to believe the former.
According to the press release:
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The mechanically operated digital display of the second timezone shows tens of hours, single hours, tens of minutes and single minutes, all displayed by mobile microsegments driven by an assemblage of 23 cams connected to a set of gears and a triggering and synchronization system. The time information is displayed by an array of 23 horizontally and vertically positioned microsegments. Vertical segments are 9 mm high and weigh at most 25 milligrams while the horizontal segments measure 2.90 mm in length and weigh only 10 milligrams. The segments have four faces: two opposing visible faces fitted with colored strips and two opposing unmarked faces. Time changes are effected by 90° rotations of the required segment or segments. Involving one to twelve segments, time changes are lightning fast.
Only 177 of this super limited edition will be made available in either red gold, titanium and gold, titanium and platinum, or titanium and rubber, and if you have to ask, you can’t afford it. (But believe me, with a watch like this, most people will have to ask!)
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Despite (or perhaps because of) their ‘80s/retro style and unique look and functionality, Casio’s G-Shock watches continue to be popular among the hip and trendy.
Their latest series of limited edition watches, the G5500C series (aka Vivid Colors), features a unique solar technology which “combines a super sensitive solar panel with a high capacity rechargeable battery to power high-load functions”.
The solar technology also powers an auto light that illuminates the display automatically when the watch is angled towards the face (and only when available light is below a certain level).
There are three colors to choose from, and other features of the Vivid Colors series include shock resistance, 200M water resistance, World Time (48 cities), 4 Daily Alarms and 1 Snooze Alarm, Hourly Time Signal, Countdown timer, 1/100 Sec. Stopwatch, 12/14 Hr. Format, Battery Level Indicator, Power Save Function Tone and Button Tone Operation On/Off.
Get yours online and nationwide for just $120.
Show off your love of design with an Icon Watch from the MoMA Store.
The shape is supposed to look like a computer icon, and the dot matrix/8-bit look will definitely get some attention, so it’s an easy way to label yourself a designer.
[Via: Acquire]
The Diesel Signature Collection is a bold and beautiful set of watches that emphasizes multiple dials and a lot of face.
The leather band is a Diesel standard, so you’ve got to like that look, but washed up rocker has never looked so good.
[Diesel - Signature Collection]
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The Zenith El Primero Zero-G is an impressive looking tourbillon watch that’s designed to be gravity resistant so that it works when you’re doing barrel rolls in your new F22.
I guess that kind of functionality isn’t exactly needed by everyone, but don’t you wish you were one of the lucky few?
[Zenith]
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