30 Amazing Watches
Watches! Are you crazy about them? And yes I am. I love watches. Nowadays watches are available in the market with a variety of designs and features. If you too are one who loves watches, here is a list of 30 amazing watches that, I am sure, you will freak out.
Even if the main purpose of using watch is to know the time, there are many watches that work beyond this. They let you know the date, time, direction, some have sensors to monitor you, and what not within a simple watch. Aren’t all these making you know the list of watches?
Let’s go ahead with the list of amazing watches.
1. Timex Thumbnail Watch:
A watch on your thumbnail! Don’t you feel this is the coolest watch ever with an ultimate design? This came out from a design contest organized by Timex so as to get new ideas for their future projects. A quick glance over your arm will let you check the time with the nail watch. It can be used in different modes like a calculator, calendar, and many. There is even an option to choose the color to display the time. This would be the most stylish watches ever if it would hit the market.
2. Tiwe OLED Wrist Watch:
Just shake the watch to know the time. Tiwe OLED Wrist Watch works by displaying a series of dots on the watch’s face. These dots appear to float around in a completely random fashion until you either shake the watch or tap the screen. You need to tap at a point where the OLED dots will quickly assemble from their chaotic meanderings to form order. Hence it displays the current time in an analog style before timing out and floating away back into chaos again.
3. Seiko Bluetooth Watch:
This Seiko watches notify you when a call or message is received (via Bluetooth) other than displaying the time. It also displays the battery level and network signal strength. SII (Seiko Instruments) in Japan has done a prototype of their Bluetooth watch for mobile phone users. The Bluetooth watch can connect to a mobile phone and display important information on the watch.
4. Binary watch:
If you want to be the absolute computer geek, then this watch will be a perfect one. But before that, you need to know the binary language. Otherwise, you won’t be able to know the time. This watch shows the time in binary language, so the name, Binary watch.
5. Storm Circuit watch:
The Storm Circuit Watch uses a pair of tall stacked LED segments to show the current time. The LED segments on the left illustrate the hour whereas the right is split into two sections. One of the sections display tens of minutes and the other shows individual minutes.
6. aoTimeFlexa:
This is a self-gumming watch, that can be attached to virtually anything. It can be attached to your hand, jacket, and anywhere else. The aoTimeFlexa is based on the flexible display technology which can be bend and rolled like a paper. It doesn’t have any physical button since it features a touchscreen. It looks almost similar to a sticker being very slim and small. So it can be used in any situation with this feature.
7. Abacus Hands-Free Ball Watch:
Abacus Hands-free ball watch is the minimalist wristwatch which is an entirely a hands-free affair. Instead of using a single metal ball to display the time, it uses a concealed magnet. This may not suit for those who cannot complete a work without knowing the exact time. Rather, it is ideally suitable for those who wishes to have a stylish look.
8. Equilibrium wrist watch:
The equilibrium wristwatch was designed inspired by aircraft instrumentation. This, in particular, can be an aircraft’s artificial horizon instrument. This wristwatch is completely an analogous watch designed to offer a “sense of perspective to an ever-shifting horizon”.
9. Liquid Time:
The Liquid Time watch is also called as “From nowhere to nowhere”.This watch utilizes two LCD screens specially crafted to fit the watch as well as some very clever typography. The upper LCD displays the hours and the lower displays minutes.
10. Nixie watch:
This watch is, especially, designed for science geeks because it displays the time on nixie tubes. Nixie tubes were used in 1969 in calculators and are quaint neon display tubes. This watch only requires the flick of the wrist to display the hours, minutes, and seconds in a sequence. Its advantages are that it’s both rugged and water resistant.
11. Matrix M6001 LCD watch:
The Matrix M6001 LCD Wrist Watch manages to ooze yesteryear appeal. It offers a highly original and distinctive styling. Managing to be understated and yet glam, though we’re not quite sure how this has been accomplished. Beyond all the other things, the Matrix M6001 is a retro fuelled masterpiece.
12. Giovannoni Timesphere:
The Giovannoni Timesphere is an alarm clock and not a wrist watch undoubtedly. But, however, it is capable of displaying the time onto any surface via a wireless orb. This wireless floating orb charges through induction sitting on the base. When the floating orb is completely charged, it can be placed anywhere. You can fix the point where you want time to be focussed. The orb will project the time onto a wall or surface or your wrist. But this device requires a lot of carefulness since it can easily get damaged if it is thrown or falls from a height. This alarm clock is available at Rs.9670.
13. On Air wristwatch:
On Air wrist Watch displays time in an extraordinary minimal way. While LED display shows minutes in number whereas its position shows us the current hour. The display also functions as a light and set button. If you push once LED lights up. To set the time you need just to push in the center of the display for 5 seconds and LED flashes. Push upper or lower corner of the display to set the hour and the left and right corner to set minutes.
14. Fossil Starck watch:
This is a digital style watch that displays time in a unique way. In a ring-shaped display, the hours are displayed as numbers while the minutes are displayed in segments. As time goes by, the segments make a complete ring every hour. The center is a hole through which you can see and the pusher is located on the case back to create this sleek styling.
15. Zihotch watch:
The appearance of this watch looks almost like an old telephone. This watch is particularly designed, keeping in mind, for the Japanese. You need to dial “117” to know the time and this will speak out the time in the Japanese language. So you can’t use this watch unless you are a Japanese.
16. The ORB – Time Orbit watch:
The watch is like a classic plastic bracelet incorporated with lines inside the watch that display the time. There are three lines rotating around the watch and show the time. First line to show the hour, the second line for minutes, and the third for seconds. Each of these three lines is colored differently. The second’s line will always be going around all the time. This watch has an attractive design and is eye-catching. The ORB is made in two colors, black and white, with different colors for the timelines. Since the watch is featured with the touchscreen, adjusting the clock is very easy. Simply touch the line, click adjust icon, and slide current time line to correct time.
17. Horological Machine No.2:
HM2 has four dials, which offer some measurements. They are: “instantaneous jump hour, concentric retrograde minutes, retrograde date and bi-hemisphere moon phase.” That means the watch has two date-related and two time-related dials. Don’t you find this stunning! This flawless beauty is worth Rs.38,04,025.
18. The Camera Phone watch:
Telson’s TWC 1150 is the world’s first camera phone watch. It supports an RUIM card which can be used in GSM phones for international roaming. A 256 color LCD, plug-in camera, Infrared wireless earpiece, speakerphone, stopwatch, and planner are the other features included.
19. Ultra-violet watch:
Infinity Optic’s Ultra-Violet watch is like an optical illusion. You’ll see the same reflection many times over because of the mirrors and electro-luminescent coated hands.
20. Luna crystal watch:
You can see that time floats magically inside this watch. It is fashioned with Swarovski crystal, stainless steel, and a Spessartite Garnet. This might end up with something that looks a whole lot like this Luna Watch created by designer John Pszeniczny. The watch almost gives you the illusion of a crystal ball. Because the touching of low contact points seems to make the time flash and float magically inside the crystal. A subtle luminescence makes it glow like a secret key to some outlandish magical world. This Luna watch finds the perfect balance between function and aesthetics. This makes the watch just the perfect fashion accessory.
21. High-Tech Army Wristwatch:
Tadiran Communications has developed new video communication technology. It delivers real-time images taken by helicopters onto a 3-inch LCD display. This wristwatch-style receiver gives soldiers an aerial view of the battlefield. A video will be beamed directly from drones at 30 frames per second. This packs along with it, a receiver, transmitter, and battery for Rs.32,31,250.
22. Issey Miyake OVO Watch:
Issey Miyake’s quite remarkable OVO Wrist Watch is a watch of extreme modernist beauty. The OVO can be considered as one of most striking wrist watches we’ve ever come across. This is a masterpiece of the watch design from the Japanese master.
23. Tokyo Flash Twelve 5-9 Q Watch:
The stylish case features an outlined undulating effect as the metal itself is alive. Moving clockwise from the top of the display, the first two lines of LEDs indicate the hours 1-12, each lit LED indicating one hour. The third line of LEDs indicates minutes up to 50, each lit LED indicating 10 minutes. The final two lines indicate single minutes 1-9, one LED representing each single minute. It’s a conventional structure for a striking display. This outstanding timepiece is perfect for those who crave something more than ordinary.
24. Azimuth SP-1 Mecanique:
Azimuth premieres the brand new SP-1 Mechanique concept watch. The other name for this watch is “spaceship watch”. It is a forward-looking timepiece which is a mix of bold, advanced styling and progressive technical flaunts. The spaceship watch has a rendition of Earth as seen from space which rotates every sixty seconds. It features a jumping hour display powered by a Unitas 6497 movement. It includes a rotating disc located at the base of the minute hand.
25. OLED Linux-Watch:
The OLED Linux-watch was developed combinedly by IBM and eMagin. This works more than displaying only the time. It basically had a host of PDA functions like phonebook, scheduler, picture viewer and many other. It also included a monochrome 640 x 480 VGA display.
26. URWERK UR-202 AlTiN:
URWERK’s patented Revolving Satellite Complication is featured with telescopic minutes hands in the UR-202. The Revolving Satellite Complication shows the time using telescopic minutes hands. This telescopic minutes hand operates through the middle of three orbiting and revolving hours satellites. The telescopic minutes hands precisely adjust their length to follow the three sectors marking the minutes: 0-14, 15-44, 45-60. They enable the UR-202 to display the time across a large and easy-to-read dial.
27. ZeroPointZero Watch:
The ZeroPointZero watch is a set of digital watch handcuffs. This is a new model ever, designed by Luis Berumen. This is a concept inspired by “we are all slaves of time”. So came the design of the watch like the handcuffs.
28. Nooka Zot-V Watch:
The second version of the Nooka Zot-V features a full-face mineral crystal lens. This makes it as easy to clean as wiping with the edge of your t-shirt. Some of the excellent features of the Nooka Zot-V include a chronograph for timing your poker games and an alarm. The 12 dots represent hours in time mode and months in date mode. And the row below counts the minutes. This watch is covered with stainless steel with an LCD display. It also has an EL backlight, leather straps, and a stainless steel buckle. It is 35 x 35 x 10mm with 28mm wide band. There are four modes in the watch to set. They are time, date, chronograph and alarm modes.
29. Gucci LED watch:
Gucci’s watches always give you an elegant experience as a luxury brand. This is a new design that comes with a sliding cover revealing a glass LED display.
30. Tokyo Flash Barcode IP LED Watch:
The Tokyo Flash Barcode is a completely different watch that displays the time through LEDs. The new IP black version of this watch features large, easy-to-see white LEDs, and solid stainless steel strap. The custom designed strap features strong grooves and the tapered edges of the case meet the strap neatly. A simple touch of a button will let you read the time. The first two columns show hours where each LED in column 1 equals 5 hours and column 2 equals 1 hour. The last two column lights show minutes where each LED in column 3 equals 10 minutes and column 4 equals 1 minute.
These are the watches which you tempt you to buy for you. All the watch have their own style in their own way. I hope you will buy one for your wrist after knowing about all these watches in this list.
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