2LMX Watch

Newly announced watch brand 2LMX has released its first watch . The brand has been created by Arnaud Tellier, the former head of the Geneva Patek Philippe museum.

A mechanical digital watch it indicates the time using a 24-hour format. It uses rotating drums on which the digits are displayed – see it working in the video at the end of the post.

The design is quite reminiscent of the Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical and features two vertically mounted dials split either side with a tourbillon in the centre. Sapphire crystal is used extensively giving you generous views of the mechanics within.

2LMX Watch

2LMX Watch side

Powered by a manually wound movement with 120 hour power reserve, it will be available in 2012 in titanium, platinum, white gold or pink gold.

Harry Winston Opus 11

The latest piece by Harry Winston is sure to arouse great interest with its highly unusual and fascinating display.

Denis Giguet, designer of the Opus 11 says that the idea of “how to explode the time” was the genesis for the creation of the Opus 11, the latest in the Harry Winston Opus series of complicated watches.

You can see this idea at work when you view the watch in motion. In fact its a timepiece you really must see working to fully appreciate it, the way the intricate micro-mechanics move is quite mesmerizing, so its recommended checking out the video at the end of the post.

F.P.Journe “Vagabondage II”

Having a more traditional appearance, the second version in the “Vagabondage” series features a manual wind movement and original digital time display.

Equipped with a 40 hour power reserve which is indicated at the top of the dial via blue hand and guage, the seconds are displayed in analog fashion at the 6 o’clock position, however uncommonly it features both “jump” hours and minutes.

There is likely to be a third edtion to the series, each one featuring a unique digital display system.

Source: F.P.Journe

Angular Momentum “Bruyer Digital”

Angular Momentum is a small, independent Swiss watch manufacturer and self described creator of “unique and extraordinary timepieces.”

With their digital series of watches the time is displayed using two revolving discs which are visible through an aperture in the Bruyer wooden plate that is mounted behind the sapphire crystal.

The watch is also available in other interpretations such as the “mother of pearl digital” and “meteorite digital”.. using a mechanical self winding movement with 25 jewels.

Price:$3000 approx
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Lange Zeitwerk

This is the first watch with a minute repeater that A. Lange & Söhne have fully made in house.

The digital display on the Lange Zeitwerk gives the dial plenty of room for a chiming mechanism that is visible in its face, the gongs and hammers on the left and right below the digits. It strikes the quarter-hours with high-pitched tones and the full hours at a lower pitch. If desired the chimes can be immediately activated via the button at the 4 o’clock position.

Available in an unlimited 44.2 mm white gold case with black dial and in a platinum case of the same size with a rhodium-plated dial that is limited to 100 pieces.

Rebellion T1000

With a mind-blowing power reserve of more than 1,000 hours – that’s more than 40 days – the T-1000 doesn’t simply push back the boundaries of the possible, it destroys them and creates its own reality.

After the successful presentation in January of The Predator, their first watch with a round case, Rebellion launched themselves into the creation of a never-before-realized challenge: creating a watch with a power reserve of more than 1,000 hours!

The T-1000 – birth of a challenge

It was in June 2008, after the famous 24 hours of Le Mans car race

Harry Winston Opus III

The most serious was how to generate enough power to turn the six discs used for the digital display. By minimizing the energy required to turn the discs this problem was solved and it was finally released in 2010.

Reading horizontally, the 1st and 3rd upper portholes of the digital display show the hours, while the lower 1st and 3rd show the minutes. Reading vertically the two central portholes show the date. Therefore the time is 08:53 and the date the 31st.

Price:$80,000
Source: Harry Winston

Devon Works Tread 1

Devon Works Tread 1

A mixture of electronic and mechanical technology, the Tread 1 uses four 2/1000th of an inch belts powered by microstep motors and mounted on central chassis which is powered by rechargeable lithium batteries.

By choosing to power these belts via electronic motors instead of a mechanical movement the cost is reduced substantially. The Tread 1 retails for $15,000, if you consider that the Tag Heuer V4 also a belt driven watch but powered by a mechanical movement costs close to $100,000 you can appreciate the economics.

Harry Winston Opus 9

This diamond encrusted watch from Harry Winston uses two bands of 33 baguette diamonds to tell the time with garnets as markers for the hours and minutes.

The simple appearance of this unconventional display belies the complex automatic movement inside that powers it.

The bands move around the face, conveyor belt-style, with the garnet pointing to the time. An elegant, black alligator strap adds to the sophistication of the watch, of which only 100 exist.

Price:$180,000
Source: Harry Winston

Andersen Geneve “Montre A Tact”

The “Montre A Tact”, or in English “Tactful Watch” is a tribute to a pocket watch of the same name originally created by Breguet in 1798.

The Breguet pocket watch could be read by feeling it, without the need to remove it from the pocket, something considered rude when in polite company, or a formal setting in Parisian society at the time.

With this watch you can tactfully view the time without turning your wrist since there is an aperture discreetly located between the watch lugs that displays the time.

Source: Andersen Geneve