Rolex GMT-Master II

There are mine..Oh hoho~

Porsche Design Worldtimer P6750

This is a great watch for all you jetsetters. The Porsche Design Worldtimer features an innovative GMT function that displays the local time zone and location from a selection of different cities while the main watch time simultaneously continues operation. [$TBD]

Nixon 51-30

If your office is located miles off shore, you probably already know how handy a good dive watch can be. Nixon's new 51-30 is a timepiece that will gladly accompany you on your water based adventures with 300m water resistance, swiss movement, rotating bezel, tide subdial, and good looks that rival even the thousand dollar watches out there. [$400]

Issey Mikyake Twelve 365

Naoto Fukasawa designed the Twelve 365 watch as a very clean, very simple timepiece, but its the simplicity in the details that makes this watch so unique. The case of the watch was inspired by a hex wrench which has 12 sides that are used to read the time in place of a number set. Another detail is the use of thickened hands in the subdials to create expressions of a human face. [$395]

Starck Snake

With its lightweight titanium bracelet and hidden crown and closure system, Starck's Snake watch creates a seamless design which looks permanently fitted to the wrist when worn. Only 2000 of the Snakes will ever be manufactured and each watch will be engraved with its own serial number to signify the limited edition timepiece. [$195]

Vestal Grenade

We're digging the style and design of Vestal's Grenade watch so much that I don't even think we care that it tells the time. The incendiary shaped watch case features a stainless steel housing, a leather cuff and canvas band, mineral face, and 30 meter water resistance. [$158]

Hautlence HL6

Just one look at the Hautlence HL6 and you know there had to be many sleepless nights that went into designing and engineering this watch. Inside the 18K Grey Gold casing, the Hautlence HL6 features a hand wound movement which charges the 40 hour power reserve, jumping hours, and a unique way of teling time by which the hour is read through a rotating disc that contains an aperture that reveals the current hour. Only 88 pieces of this model will be sold, which also means it will cost you a pretty penny. [$42,000]

Nixon Diamond Rotolog

We covered Nixon's premium line of elite series watches a couple months ago, and now they're stepping it up even further with an over the top diamond studded Rotolog model. The amount of diamonds on this watch is just staggering, 1,087 full cut black diamonds and 764 full cut white diamonds which create the skull pattern you see on the band. Available exclusively at Barney's New York and Beverly Hills locations. [$18,000]

Chiffre Rouge, the first watch for men by Dior

Hedi Slimane, famous artistic director of Dior Homme ready-to-wear fashion, designed Dior's first timepiece for men. The Chiffre Rouge Dior wristwatch is now on sale throughout the network of Dior Homme stores.

The Dior Homme Chiffre Rouge incorporates the automatic mechanical movement "El Primero" by Zenith, the supposedly the most precise movement in the world. A tiny diamond is hidden on its reverse side. The date indicator is red for enhanced visibility. The winder crowns and the push-piece to reset the chronograph are in red ceramic.

Rollei Rolleiflex MiniDigi

For the last few weeks, I’ve been scouring the internet looking for the perfect pocket-sized camera that can go with me everywhere as a supplement to my trusty Digital Rebel — preferably something with some personality, to boot. I haven’t settled on a camera yet, but in my searches I stumbled across the Rollei Rolleiflex MiniDigi (try saying that one five times fast). If you’re familiar with with the Rollei name at all, it’s probably from their 1920’s twin lens reflex Rolleiflex camera which has maintained its popularity, even into today’s photography world.

To keep up with today’s digital age, Rollei has introduced a pocket-sized reproduction of the original Rolleiflex called the MiniDigi. The MiniDigi maintains a construction that’s faithful to the original design, complete with twin lenses up front (the top one is purely for aesthetics) and a hand crank that has to be turned to reset the shutter for the next shot. Add into the mix a 3MP sensor that shoots in a square format (the original Rolleiflex shot 6cm x 6cm medium format film) and a minuscule size of 4.9cm x 7.3cm x 4.5cm, and you’ve got what might just be the perfect pocket camera for grabbing street shots.

Images from the MiniDigi apparently have a vein of unpredictability, much like the venerable Holga toy camera. A user over on the Fred Miranda board described the images for me: “Sometimes they look like normal 3 MP digital images. Other times they have flare, distortion, color shifts or other inexplicable weirdness.” Check some out for yourself at the Flickr MiniDigi group.

The $200 price tag has me still debating on whether to grab one of these little guys, but I have a feeling I may cave pretty soon. If anyone has either a MiniDigi or a Ricoh GR Digital (another camera I’m considering), please fill me in on your thoughts!

HD3 Complication Black Titanium

Here is a shot of the new HD3 Complication wristwatch in black titanium. This is definitely my favorite look from the three skilled watchmakers at HD3 Complication. Good work!

HD3 Complication Vulcania Baselworld Preview

Here is a sweet new watch from HD3 Complications called the Vulcania. These watches are very expensive, but they are so unique and so cool.

TAG Heuer Grand Carrera Grande-Date GMT

Tag Heuer has come up with a couple of new models one who which we have already featured last week. Another one from the same edition is the TAG Heuer Grand Carrera Grand Date GMT. This double Grand watch looks solid at 42.5mm. The Brown dial is a satisfying change from the usual blacks and whites. However you can opt for a silver or a black dial if that’s your style. The stainless steel case encases the dial and covers it with sapphire. This one has a cool big date complication and a GMT indicator which is housed in a little window. The automatic movement, Caliber 8RS, features COSC-certification as a chronometer. It is water resistant up to 100 meters.

Grand Carrera Grande-Date

Tag Heuer has a couple of new models coming out… both of which I am quite excited about indeed! I’ve always liked the Carerra, but thought it was a little bit small… now Tag has jumped on the big watch bandwagon (well, not THAT big) and released the new Grand Carerra and Grand Carrera Grande-Date. That’s a lot of Grand!

The Grand Carrera is a VERY nice watch, absolutely stunning dial with exposed steel with circular graining on it.. very nice. A large 43mm diameter COSC certified Chronometer… KILLER looks. I love it. Featurs a Tag Caliber 17RS and sells for a cool $4,495. This puppy will make a nice addition to my collection. Oh yes.. Dials in Black and Silver.

Pimp Revolution

When the button is pressed for the time it will spiral all the lights on and off then show the time. Press the button again and the day and date will be displayed. Now what really makes this watch stand out, is the light up feature, the watch lights up every light in a spiral and then off in a spiral every 2 minutes from 6 PM to 1 AM. Super flashy and you will be Pimpin large. Pimpin was never easy till now. Grab one and see for yourself.

To learn more about Pimp watches visit www.pimp-watches.com

Enjoy Pimpin!

Shinshoku

Tokyoflash are proud to announce the Shinshoku, industrially designed to make a truly individual statement.

The strap is a continuous stainless steel band that wraps around your wrist with a matrix of punched out holes. Beneath the surface are 29 super bright LED's which illuminate to indicate the time. There are 3 models available.

The watch's LED's animate in a cascade effect when showing the time. (Button B skips the animation & jumps straight to the time)

On the multi-color LED model the red lights (12) indicate the hour, the green (3) indicate 15 minutes each & the Yellow (14) are 1 minute each.
By telling the time in this way it makes it very easy to see if its roughly quarter-past, half-past or quarter-to the hour. With each green LED worth 15 mins; then 2 lit equals 30 mins.

The watch is also available in All-Red & All-Green LED if you prefer the single color look. The etched markings on the strap allow you to distinguish between hours & minutes on all versions - but the multi-color version is by far the easiest model to read the time on, especially at night.

The strap is easily adjustable at home, no need to use any tools, and can fit up to a 8.5 inch wrist. (22.5 cm)

JLr7

The JLr7 (which is named after the top row of the watch) comes from the minds of Eri & Eiichi (e35) who theme their designs and artwork on geometric patterns. We love the way this seemingly random pattern of lights is able to tell the time in a futuristic manner.

The whole watch is brushed with a dark gunmetal finish and an all black crystal face. The grid of L-shaped digital segments on the face light up to reveal the time.
When the button is pressed the watch starts a computerized animation sequence with a random pattern of lights & then displays the time. Between 6pm & Midnight the watch animates automatically every 15 mins to give the effect that it is malfunctioning. (this feature can be turned off)

There are 12 lights for the hour, 3 for "quarter past", "half past" & "quarter to" and 14 lights for the times in between. There are also 3 other lights which show the seconds ticking by. The watch face has some subtle dark grey markings which distinguish the borderline between hours, minutes & seconds.

Twelve 5-9 L Versions

Featuring a staggered face & strap - Hours on the right & minutes on the left - It's quite an unusual look and at 26mm wide the watch is actually quite slim & not at all bulky.

The interesting feature of this watch is the number markings are in Kanji - Japanese characters - instead of regular digits. Even if your Japanese isn't up to scratch it's still easy to read the time, hey you might even start to learn the time in Japanese! So if someone asks "How do you tell the time on that?" simply reply in Japanese "Jyu Ni Ji San Jyu Happun desu" (It's 12:38)

Seiko Electronic-Ink Watch for Women

Seiko’s Spectrum electronic -ink watch concept was the world’s first watch from EDP (Electronic Paper Display). And at Baselworld 2007 event Seiko introduces a new Electronic-Ink timepiece. This latest piece is for women.

This new watch designed in bracelet style uses the high contrast e-ink technology. It has two display modes. If you set the watch to its ‘efficiency’ mode, the display is informative and easy to read. And if it is set to ‘mystery’ mode, the panel shows the time in a more imaginative, evocative style.

The display with ultra-high contrast is made of pure black and pure white particles, which is much thinner than any other watch technology.

This ink displayed is encased under a 360-degree continuous sapphire crystal.

Measurements of e-ink watch are:

Diameter:

Outside- 75.3mm

Inside: 61.5mm

Width: 22.0mm

Thickness: 6.9mm

Weight: 80g

Bluetooth Wrist Watch

As a confirmed horological nut, I was fairly skeptical when I heard about the Fossil Abacus Bluetooth watch, the MobileWear. It is a watch that tells you when someone is calling your cellphone. It notifies you by vibrating and showing the name of the caller - if they’re in your address book - right on the watch face. You can also mute and hang-up on callers with the watch.

UPDATE - I screwed up the naming on this one. This is the Abacus model, a subsidiary of Fossil.

This hefty beast is designed to work with Symbian Series 60 devices, mainly Sony Ericsson phones along with some Nokias. I tried it with a Nokia N91 with some degree of success.

*Sony Ericsson Bluetooth enabled mobile phones (K610, K610im, K618, K790, K800, W710, W850, Z610, Z710, P990, W950, and M600)
* Series 60 phones using Symbian OS version 7, 8, and 8.1 (coming soon)

The first thing you’ll notice about this $249 stainless steel watch is that it’s very heavy. It’s not overly large or thick, it’s just a hunk of metal with a unobtrusive screen at 6 o’clock on the face. It has two buttons and a standard crown to set the time.

Black Dice Guru : 好容易阅读的LED手表！

Black Dice 终于打破了 LED 手表界的惯例，推出了一个超容易看懂的 Guru LED 手表。让看时间不再成为想要拥有科技时尚感的朋友的梦靥。

这 只由 Black Dice 推出的 Guru，使用不锈钢材质、50米防水功能、闹铃功能，再配上相当具有科技感的 LED 显示方式。更重要的是它真的很容易看懂。看出来了吗？图中的时间正指在 12:00。嗯，还看不出来吗？将头往左转个九十度看看，Yes，Bingo。

Morse code LED watch tells time even more confusing!

I don’t think it’s a good idea to have morse code to tell time. I think nowadays it’s hard to find anyone that I know personally who can interpret morse code. Of course, the Wikipedia page shows a pretty complete explanation and also the table that shows the code relationship with numbers and letters. As the title says, the watch carries an LED display that tells the time by morse code, either by sound or vision. Meaning it can be set to sound out time in morse code or shows in combination of dashes and dots in morse code on its LED display. If I were the one who wore this watch, perhaps, I’d always need to have the browser on my portable to hook up to Wikipedia web page, in order for me to tell the time. But no worry, the watch has an option for you to set it to a normal LED time that displays time in normal digits that you’re used to instead of the complex morse code.

Steam Punk Watch

This steam punk watch is functional and is guaranteed to attract some attention. It looks like you may only want to wear it for a few hours at a time though…

The watch is gold, but that's all we can tell

The only thing surprising about this watch is that it didn't come from Tokyoflash, the site known for such indecipherable gems as the "Jive Turkey," the "Pleasure Seeker" and the ever-popular "Pimpin' Ain't Easy" series.

But it certainly could have, for it seems equally baffling. As Tech Digest says, the "Guru" timepiece from Black Dice Industries has LEDs positioned in a "peculiar, eye-bending pattern." If you do manage to figure out how to read this $250 watch, though, you can take it diving up to 50 meters.

In an odd way, though, we appreciate the monochromatic style of the gold Guru. If we're going to be confused by a watch, we'd just as soon not have a bunch of colored lights flashing at us the whole time.