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Embedded Spinning Globe Doesn’t Make a Watch Worth $550,000

I’m no watch expert, but I’m pretty sure there’s no amount of doodaddery in the world that would make a watch worth over half a million dollars. But hey, that didn’t stop the Hysek Colosso from trying! The stand-out feature is the “crystal pustule filled with a dimensional earth rotating for local or GMT time,” … Continued

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‘Steampunk’ Watch Sullies Steampunk’s Good Name

I’m not sure if steampunk is currently cool or if it’s played out or if it’s still “underground,” but I do know one thing: this “steampunk” watch takes everything crappy about the aesthetic and includes nothing that makes it cool. It’s a lame-looking watch on a boring leather cuff with some gears randomly attached around … Continued

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Casio Tough Movement For G-Shock Uses Internal LEDs to Sync Time

These watch guts from Casio can receive radio synchronization signals from six transmitters around the world every hour at the 55-minute mark-if the individual holes in the gear sprockets don’t line up in precisely the exact position as measured by a 16Hz blinking LED and a phototransistor, the watch adjusts accordingly. The first Tough Movement … Continued

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AK Geneve HMS Automatic Warp Watch Is Nigh Indestructible, Inspired by Star Trek

Timepiece designer Arny Kapshitzer is a big fan of Star Trek, and that shows in his latest creation, the HMS Automatic Warp Watch. While it won’t take you Warp 9 anytime soon, it does have a ton of carbon fiber, and the perfluorinated, hypoallergenic rubber wristband is impervious to “all acids.” From the sound of … Continued

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Antique Pocket Watch Hides Tiny Pistol

The all-in-one device is not a new trend by any means. Whereas we’ve recently combined music players and cellphones, our great-grandfathers were tinkering with other ways of saving pocket space…discreetly. In this rare English Patent Curiosa Railroad Pocket Watch Gun, designers stuck a 3mm pistol inside an otherwise inconspicuous pocket watch. Here’s the reveal “shot”: … Continued

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Giant, Functioning LED Wristwatch is Actually a Table

The aptly titled ‘Big Time’ table from artist Lee J Rowland is, in fact, a giant wristwatch with a programmable LED clock. It has a touch button feature like a normal watch that allows the user to switch between time, seconds and date functions. You can even program it to display an 8 letter message … Continued

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Eleeno Cyber Digital Watch: Time-Confusion Fashion Fusion

I own a perfectly conventional analog watch, and though I confess to a penchant for these weird or confusing digital ones, up to now I’d probably not buy one. But this leaked set of images is of a watch I’d actually consider wearing: the Eleeno Cyber. With 12 discrete LCD dials to read the time … Continued

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Metal Gear Solid 4 Watch Says It’s Time For Snaaaaaaake!

Not only are we gigantic fans of the Metal Gear Solid series as a whole (we’re guts deep in the latest saga right now), we’re also big fans of being able to tell time. That’s why this limited edition MGS4 watch, given to preorder sales at UK’s Gamestation, is so damn fantastic. There are only … Continued

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Nooka Glow-In-The-Dark Watches Are Just For Kanye West

Speaking of jackholes with gadgets, here’s Nooka’s special glow-in-the-dark Zub watches that they made for Kanye West and his “Glow in the Dark” tour. You know, Nooka, the company tha tmakes watches with dots and meters? Too bad you can’t have any of these because Kanye took them all. Tough luck, sucka! Maybe when you’re … Continued

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Diesel LED Watches Have Hidden Mirror Displays for Sci-Fi Chic

Ah, a digital watch with an LED display that’s not impossible to read… fantastic! Even better, the LEDs on these new watches from Diesel are a dot-matrix screen, and are hidden behind a mirror surface that makes the whole package look suitably sci-fi. Like something Luke would’ve worn on his cybernetic wrist. You can even … Continued

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Asos Disk Dial Watches: Confusing Displays, Analog-Style

These watches sit somewhere between the confusing displays of Tokyo Flash digital watches and the amazing mechanical-digital Meccanica DG. Inside they have two wheels that spin relative to a marker line: and that’s where you peek to work out how many hours and minutes of the work day remain (that’s the main reason for wearing … Continued

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Scramble and Progression Tokyo Flash Watches Aren’t Totally Confusing

Just a few weeks ago I showed you the Infection watch, which was very much in the vein of befuddling time display that importer Tokyo Flash has become famous for. But now there’re the new Scramble and Progression watches from Nekura, and it looks like their LED-backlit LCD displays are slightly more straightforward, if still … Continued

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Casio Oceanus Watch: Solar Drives Atomic

The Casio Oceanus Super Chronograph is the world’s first solar chronograph watch that syncs with atomic clocks. Using a multi-band radio, the watch can check in with the US, UK, Germany and Japan to keep precise time—and solar energy consumption means that you’ll potentially never run out of battery (the watch can draw energy from … Continued

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Cassette Watch: Best Invention Since the Mix Tape

WARNING: by reading about the Cassette-Face Watch, you too could lose $70 (£35) into the void of online shopping. Constructed of stainless steel and featuring dual dials (one for hours, one for minutes), its faux hand-sketched labels make this accessory transcend normal watch for a moniker more like “really great watch that looks like a … Continued

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Sentio Tactile Digital Watch for Blind has Good Looks

Looking like the love child of the mechano-digital Di Grisogono and the F1 watches, this concept is intended to be a timepiece for the visually impaired. Elements of the 7-segment numerals pop out so you can tell the time with a touch (I’m guessing it shows hours, minutes sequentially.) But designer Matthew Wagerfield thought that … Continued

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The Veldini Q Wristwatch Was Inspired By James Bond: And it Has the Spy Gadgets to Prove It

Even if eavesdropping on your co-worker’s personal phone calls is the closest you will ever get to becoming a spy, a watch filled with spy gadgets is hard for any man to resist. Perhaps that is why Veldini plans on releasing at least 3 different models of their new “Q” James Bond inspired wristwatch. Each … Continued

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TokyoFlash Infection Watch For that Bacteria-Chic Look

TokyoFlash—always guaranteed to surprise us with impossible-to read watch designs— has just stumped up it’s newest offering, which this time looks like some kind of organic cell pattern. It’s dubbed “Infection”… and you can just imagine the advertising tag can’t you? Yep: “No one is immune to infection.” The time is revealed by 12 red, … Continued

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Four More Casio G-Shocks Round Out 25th Anniversary Collection

Four new G-Shocks that weren’t seen at this week’s 25th anniversary party are now being shown off. On top is the GW225E-7, the cream of this crop. It’s ISO 200 meter water resistant and built for divers. It has a timer that logs dives, and memory storage for vital stats like blood type, diver certification … Continued

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Casio Celebrates 25 Years of G-Shock With Four New Models

Casio just unveiled four new G-Shock models at their 25th anniversary event tonight in NYC. Kanye West is here, but the watches are definitely taking front and center. Two are analog, the other two digital, and all feature Multi-Band 6 atomic time synchronization and solar batteries. The one above is the MT-G, or Metal Twisted … Continued

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A New “World’s Most Expensive” Gadget?

Watches were the original gadget. But unlike their silicon counterparts, good watches tend to appreciate over time. So barring that 5G iPhone prototype sitting in Jobs’ desk, we believe this $2,157,760 Patek Philippe watch just auctioned at Sotheby’s may be the world’s new most expensive gadget. While the watch itself is a masterpiece, its historical … Continued