Why bother wearing a watch you can read? With some of the world’s most innovative watches, you won’t be able to tell time (easily), but you’ll certainly make a statement.
The aspirational days of the classic Rolex are gone. Today, watch innovation is driven by unique form factors and cult design. In fact, some of the hottest watches don’t resemble anything like watches of days gone by.
Over the last year and half, we’ve published 40 innovative watches. This list represents 25 of the most innovative and unusual concepts.
The O-Ring Watch By Phillippe Starck
Looking for functional, industrial design in a watch at a reasonable price? Starck-designed, Fossil O-Ring Watch definitely fits the bill with it’s uber-funky o-ring face and simplistic detailing. All for a cool $110 - comes in white, black or smokin’ grey. [More]
$220,000 Cabestan Watch (GALLERY)
The Cabestan Watch is an interesting mechanical watch. If it wasn’t $220,000, I would consider one for myself. This unique design was created by two independents watchmakers “Jean-François Ruchonnet and Vianney Halter” who have combined their talents to create something truly innovative. “The … [More]
Pixel Watch For Ladies - EL Modern Timepiece
With a strap made of polycarbonate; available in pink, brown, and white; and is waterproof up to 10 meters, the Pixel Watch from ODM is one of the coolest watches. Besides from displaying the time and date, it also show funky animations in a scrolling pattern with its electro luminescent band, on t… [More]
EleeNo WebTime Elite - Difficult to Read, But Hot (GALLERY)
TokyoFlash, a company that has introduced us to a number of innovative watches, is now selling the EleeNo WebTime Elite. The EleeNo watch is funky, but it will take you a little bit of time to get used to reading circles instead of hands. The TokyoFlash site describes, “The unique butterfly clas… [More]
Pierced Watch - Does Your Wrist Hurt Yet?
When MTV featured Trend Hunter, the crowd favourite trend was the pierced glasses that we featured last summer. Well, now there’s something that blows pierced glasses out of the water: a pierced watch. The pierced watch is created with a surface piercing under the skin that holds the watch. The p… [More]
Seiko’s E-ink Watch for Women (GALLERY)
Now that everybody and their mother tends to use their cellphone to check the time, watches, more than ever are fahsion and design statements. Picking up on this trend, Seiko introduced a new women’s bracelet watch at Baselworld (the world’s largest watch expo) that eschews more traditional LCD crys… [More]
Hautlence HLs Watches (GALLERY)
Hautlence has released a new watch line which significantly depart from traditional watch design. Hautlence describes the movement, “Due to an instinctive means of telling time, this unique timepiece displays civil time thanks to the use of jumping hours and retrograde minutes. The jumping hour of … [More]
Punk Meets Bling With 1,851 Diamond Encrusted Nixon Rotolog Watch
Weighing in at 9.25 carats, you will find the Nixon Rotolog watch, encrusted with 1,851 full cut white and black diamonds. A blend of punk rock complete with skull imagery, this time piece is the perfect compromise, bringing some serious bling along with it. [More]
Convertable Wristwatch - Von Zios is Also a Table Clock
The Von Zios watch may look like a normal watch but actually it can transform into a table clock. Von Zios is a unisex watch designed by Siti Khatijah, Singapore designer. The idea behind this watch is for the business person who considers their watch a companion. [More]
$150 Home Theater Watch
Months ago, we started seeing TV Watches pop up. No doubt the concept has been in the imagination of designers for a long time, but the technology is come of age. This new watch might be one of the slickest watch tvs yet… and it only costs $150. Having said that, this watch does not stream live… [More]
JITWatch Connects to PDA, GPS and Cellphone, Tells You How Much Time You Need
The JITWatch is a German invention that coordinates all of your gizmos to let you know things like when you’ll need to leave for your next appointment. It does that by referencing your GPS location and the location of the next meetings in your calender. [More]
Sand Time Digital Watch- Sand timer sans sand!
“Like sands thru the hourglass..so are the days of our lives” A line that was SOOO 80’s.. but this watch definitely aint. A very funky digital watch with a display that resembles a sand timer- the seconds slowly pour thru the screen till a whole minute ticks past. Quirky. [More]
Zero G Watch- New ways of telling the time..actually makes sense!
Continuing with my hunt for cool watches that I can’t read (actually I can’t read analog that well either I confess) is this zero G watch with digital display. On first glance the face looks like some odd symbol, but on closer inspection (and i’m assuming you’d get used to it) it’s actually a repres… [More]
Water Clock - Way Cooler Than Anything You Own
I’ve seen plenty of watches that make telling time difficult in the name of precision but the ChronArte Quadro wall clock brings a similar idea to home decor. The watch uses colored textile bands which build up over time to form a colored face. After 12 hours when it is all colored in it changes ba… [More]
Infinity Watch - A Jack of all Trades (GALLERY)
The Infinity Watch from Swatch, designed by Pierre Merlet, has a built-in mp3 player, videoplayer/recorder and a photo album all wrapped into a funky looking watch! (GUSH) [More]
Bluetooth Watches - MBW-100 Links to your Mobile Phone, Displays Image of Person Calling You!
It’s Sleek, Stylish and so cool! The MBW-100 released on the 28th September 2006 is a collaboration between Sony Ericsson and Fossil. The watch has an OLED display screen just below the face and when someone calls you, their picture or name appears on the watch. You can choose to click a button on t… [More]
Hamilton X-01 Watch
Damn, you’re watch is ugly compared to the Hamilton X-01 Watch. It looks nifty, although I’m surprised to learn it is a relic from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey. Luxist tells us, “Time flies as the saying goes but one piece of time, in the form of a watch used in the movie, is making a return. Th… [More]
Stonehenge Watch
“Stonehenge is certainly surrounded by mystery concerning why it was built and by whom. Druids, aliens, Merlin, the devil - heck, we don’t know - probably built by some ancient ancestors of modern geeks. You can now harness the power of the sun and the stones by using the Stonehenge Watch. Just posi… [More]
PIMP Watch
The PIMP watch is the latest in a long list of crazy accessories to come out of Japan. Unlike your standard time-piece the PIMP watch uses around seventy LED’s to tell the time using three different colours. The LED’s will light up once a minute to display the time, all that’s involved is some simpl… [More]
SCOPE - Nerdy Watch Tells Time on a Grid
I could describe this for you, but it’s more fun to look at the description of the SCOPE watch directly from Arkon Industries: The year is 2157, Alien Robots have taken over the Earth. Our cities lie in ruin.
The last surviving humans have retreated to hidden caves and bunkers to escape the constan… [More]
E-Ink Watch
Seiko has introduced the first watch using E-ink. The Seiko Spectrum was recently launched in Japan (only 500 units available) at a cost of US$2200. At 34mm thick and 134g it may be start of a new wave wrist watch technology. [More]
Nooka Watches: Patented Art For Your Wrist
If you are looking for a cool watch that requires a bit of a learning curve, check out the Noo Nooka designs. The watches are stylish and pretty much gauranteed to start a conversation. “Following the success of the zoo and zot, we are pushing the design of linear expression to its purist form wit… [More]
Nixie Watch: Cathode Corner
At just $395, the Nixie Watch from Cathode Corner is a piece of modern art you can own. “The Cathode Corner Nixie Watch displays the time on nixie tubes, which are quaint neon display tubes once used in calculators in the dawn of recorded history (1969). It is a two-digit wristwatch designed for e… [More]
Reveal Mystery Watch: As Seen at Moma
For just $80 you can pick up a Reveal Mystery Watch, as seen at MoMa. Reveal’s cool watches are as close to a digital watch as you can get while still looking uber stylish. “With Reveal, time is always in the present. This timekeeper reveals the current time through a looking glass while fading th… [More]
Luxury Erotic Watches For Just Over $100k
They say you reach the classification of ‘Super Rich’ when you earn more interest that you can spend. I think you reach that point when spend over $100k on an erotic watch. However, if you have the spare cash flow, why search for free porn on the net when you can buy a $160,000 watch with customi… [More]
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