Convertible watches

Oakley Full Metal Jacket

If you like the idea of being able to choose whether to wear your timepiece as a wristwatch or a pocket watch then the Oakley Full Metal Jacket could be for you, assuming you like the typically robust Oakley styling.

Part of the “High-end Elite” line of watches the FM Jacket is made from impact forged Titanium and comes with a separate pocket watch housing included. Its powered by a Valjoux 7750 25-jewel automatic movement, has a 46 hour power reserve and is COS chronometer certified. Its chronograph shows measured time in sub-dials that display elapsed seconds, minutes and hours.

The strap and chain for the pocket watch are also constructed from the same lightweight titanium as the case and it features a sapphire crystal, screw down case back and is water resistant to 330 feet.
Available from the Oakley store with a price of $8,995 USD.

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Oakley Full Metal Jacket Pocket watch

Oakley Full Metal Jacket Wristwatch Housing

Oakley Full Metal Jacket Kit

Porsche Design P’6520 Compass Watch

Designer Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche created the first compass watch in 1978 and the P’6520 Compass Watch is a modified re-issue of that one, its been updated for the 21st Century by increasing the diameter to 42mm and this new version also now sports a titanium case. The watch is limited to 911 pieces.

The P’6520 consists of two sections. The three three hand watch that is the upper section is driven by an automatic SW300 Sellita movement and the lower section of the watch that is revealed by the watch opening up is a liquid compass and available in both Northern and Southern Hemisphere versions.

P’6520 Compass Watch Front

P’6520 Design Sketch

To help with navigation a scratch resistant mirror has been fitted to the top of the compass and rear of the watch which clicks into a 45 degree position once opened.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Mechanica à Tryptique

This year is the 80th anniversary of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso, a watch able to rotate 180 degrees within its case and devised in order to protect the watch face.

With that in mind, an article on this iconic reversible watch seemed in order.

Sporting beginnings

The Reverso was released in 1931, and its idea came about as the result of a polo match in India.

Cesar De Trey, while relaxing in a bar after a polo match happened to notice the smashed crystal on a watch worn by one of the other players, this led him to suggest the idea of a reversible watch to his friend Jacques-David LeCoultre.

Looking into this idea Jacques-David LeCoultre discovered there weren’t really any watches that filled the need of an unbreakable watch and set about creating one, the Reverso. On its release it was greeted enthusiastically and

Korloff Voyageur Kalahari Edition

Are you the subject of unprovoked, horological inspired bullying? Does your timepiece make you feel inferior?

Well relief may be at hand, or rather wrist – in the shape of the Korloff Voyageur, a watch that bristles with no less 5 Swiss ETA movements powering it. A watch abundantly endowed. Never look back in anger again.

The watch has dual personalities, the formal and the sporty.
These are reflected in the style of the watch faces, the formal side has a more traditional design featuring large Roman numerals and a polished finish while the sporty has a more modern, casual appearance and brushed finish.

Manufacture Royale Opera

Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer famous for his wit and advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade was apparently the inspiraion behind Manufacture Royale’s “Opera”. Would he have approved? Hard to know. Its quite an extravagence, given the time in which he lived , probably only Louis XV could have afforded to buy one of these. To paraphrase Voltaire, if this watch didn’t exist would it be necesary to invent it? Well I’m sure there probably was a void for a $1.2m watch with the unique capability of creating a hollow chamber to improve the accoustics of its minute repeater..

Reconvilier Golf Master

Reconvilier The Hercules Golf Master

The Hercules Golf Master is a high end Swiss gadget watch that has the capability to measure the exact distance (in meters or yards) from the golf player to the green by using GPS technology.

It has a reversible analogue / digital display so that it can be worn as a classical looking analogue watch or it can be flipped to the high tech digital display that shows the time digitally and provides the golfer with the gps data.

The analogue display is powered by a Swiss ETA Automatic movement that has been chronometer certified. The watch is protected from any stresses caused by playing golf through special shock absorption technology.

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Price: $2,500-$5,000

Parmigiani Bugatti Tourbillon

Parmigiani teamed up with Bugatti to create a watch for their 16C Galibier car and the Bugatti Tourbillon Watch was the result. Its a convertible watch designed to be four timepieces in one.

The 16C is a four seat luxury sedan which shares the W16 8.0L engine of the Bugatti Veyron, but with two superchargers instead of four turbochargers for improved torque. Its still in prototype stage and a version proper is expected to reach the market in 2013.

S.T.A.M.P.S. watches

S.T.A.M.P.S. watches took the idea of the postage stamp and based a watch design on it. Like the real thing they have adhesive backs and come in huge array of designs, with interchangeables straps and faces.

They come in a 42mm by 42mm (non water-resistant) perforated case.

“Stick it on anything, anywhere you like. Remove it if you want and stick it again or wear it on your wrist, around your neck or on your pony-tail.”

Price:$20
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Valbray V.01

Watchmakers have created designs featuring apertures – a shutter mechanism featuring blades – since the 1950’s.

You will remember having seen this type of mechanism at the start of James Bond movies.

Valbray use it as a double display mechanism to hide and reveal the watches dial, with a turn of the bezel it opens and closes changing its appearance from the sleek to the functionally complex in an instance.

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Chopard Louis-Ulysse The Tribute

To mark the 150th anniversary of Chopard, the classic Swiss watch company, only 150 of these stylish watches were made.

Its an ingenious combination Pocket watch and wristwatch using a unique cradle system for attaching the pocket watch.

In 1912 Karl Scheufele invented special watch lugs that enabled a pocket watch to be attached and turned into a wristwatch. The Chopard Louis-Ulysse is a reinterpretation of that design and inspiration behind the cradle system they developed.

The white gold case is 49.6mm with satin and polished finishes.
The chronometer certified hand wound movement has an 80 Hour power reserve and its bridges feature “Cotes de Geneve” decoration.

Comes with a chain for the pocket watch variation.

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