Unique watches
Otium silver balls watch
These unique watches combine visionary time-telling with traditional watch mechanics
Tiny, sleek silver balls in the outside position show the hour, while a tiny sweeping hand indicates the minutes.
This watch comes with a white dial as well as a black dial and Automatic ETA2824-2
movement.
Price:$3500 Source:Link
Mr Jones "Everyday Special "
Only 366 of these watches were made, each commemorate a day of the year. The hour hand spells out a month while the minute hand shows the day.
Choose the watch that represents a special day to you and no one else will have an "Everyday Special" exactly like yours.
Price:$185
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Projects "Lost Time"
The Lost Time watch by Robert Brodmann for Projects represents a perfect blend of design, watch mechanics, and fantasy.
This fascinating watch creates the illusion that the dial is receding from the face, leaving the bright red hands hanging in mid-air,
giving the wearer a dreamy feeling of watching time fade into the distance while telling time.
Price:$90 Source:Link
Storm V2
These unusual watches feature two rotating discs on the face, each showing a different time, that mimic the dials on the dash of a sports car. The stainless-steel case and bullet-shaped indicators pointing from the crowns to the dials give it a dangerous edge that is hard to miss on your wrist. You can get this timepiece in rose gold, black, and slate.
Price:$170 Source:Link
ODM MY02 (Reverso)
This intriguing watch reverses the positions of the timepiece and the controls.
In the face of the watch are four large buttons, while the time is displayed digitally in two small LCD bands at the top and bottom of the face, each showing a different time. The watch itself is also reversible; simply flip it around on your wrist to see the other time.
Price:$115
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Hamilton Time Player
The face is divided into nine squares, eight of which have tiles that move like a sliding puzzle.
Four of the tiles are timepieces that tell the time in four locations.
Slide a tile into the center square to set a particular watch.
Although there is no real puzzle here, you'll be entertained moving the tiles around into different patterns.
Price:$2700 Source:Link
The Unique Watch Guide
The Unique Watch Guide covers some of the wide selection of unique or distinctive watches that are available today. The site is updated weekly to provide you with the latest news on unique watches. It also relates some of their history and development and identifies the visual, operational and functional characteristics that make them out of the ordinary.
If you are looking to buy a unique watch, this site will I hope give you some idea of the different types that are available..
There are many different ways in which a watch can be considered unique so for organisational purposes this site is divided into the various categories which identify the singular features of the unique watch. These are shown in the menu.
The wristwatches evolution and constant development
In the beginning wristwatches were worn only by women, as much for adornment as for practical timekeeping. Men found them to be too feminine and preferred the more substantial and probably more accurate pocket watch.
Soldiers during the first world war however found a quick glance at the wrist so much more convenient and speedy than hauling out the much larger timepiece from under a greatcoat, an action which could get you killed. From here on the wristwatches popularity steadily developed.
Wristwatches have also steadily improved since and as new developments took place so novel applications and designs were found. In the 1920s Rolex produced a waterproof wristwatch and soon after introduced a self winding version. New materials were used to make watches more durable enabling them to be used in more testing environments.
In the latter half of the 20th century quartz movements were introduced, further widening the scope for innovation and more recently still, microprocessors were developed for wristwatches giving them almost unlimited opportunities for novel applications.
Unique watch Timeline
This timeline shows some of the unique watches that have been introduced since the beginning of the twentieth century, beginning with the first Dive watch in 1932.
| Watch Type | Year | Comment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dive | 1932 | Omega debuted its Marine watch in 1932, considered to be the first Dive watch. It used a unique case within a case to help with waterproofing and in 1936 before the age of scuba diving gear Charles Beebe an underwater researcher dove down to a depth of 14m using weighted boots and the watch strapped to his diving suit. | ||
| Electric | 1957 | In January 1957, the Hamilton watch company announced the "Electric 500" it was unique for being the first watch to never need winding because it was the first electric powered watch. | ||
| Quartz | 1969 | The Seiko Astron was released in Tokyo on December 25, 1969, after ten years of research and development. Within one week 100 gold watches had been sold, at a retail price of 450,000 yen (US$1,250) each (at the time, equivalent to the price of a medium-sized Japanese automobile) | ||
| LED | 1971 | In the autumn of 1971 the Hamilton company released the first LED watch. This was also the first watch to display time in an electronic digital format as well as being the first all electronic watch. It was given the name "Pulsar", had an 18-carat gold case and retailed for $2,100, about the price of the Chevrolet Vega at the time! | ||
| Solar | 1972 | The first version of a solar watch was produced by inventor Roger Riehl in March 1968, a prototype followed in 1970 and a full production version called the 'Synchronar' was released in 1972 | ||
| Calculator | 1976 | Pulsar is credited with bringing out the first mass produced Calculator watch in 1976. | ||
| TV | 1983 | The first TV watch that Seiko introduced back in 1983. It had quite a low contrast blue and white LCD screen and received UHF and VHF TV channels with a separate TV receiver which was intended to be placed in your pocket. It was noted at the time by the Guinness Book of Records as being the smallest TV set in the world. | ||
| Talking | 1984 | First talking watch | ||
| Atomic | 1990 | The first atomic watch was released by the German company Junghans and was called the "Mega 1". It had the receiver mounted in its strap and during the early morning hours would receive signals from the atomic clock in Frankfurt. | ||
| Gps | 1999 | In June 1999 Casio released the first GPS watch, it was the top of the range model in their Protrek series of outdoor watches. | ||
| E-Ink | 2005 | 2005 Seiko released a prototype of the first E-ink watch , called the Spectrum. It was a unique watch with a bracelet style design aimed at women. | ||
