The Nostromo gathers its inspiration from the world of Sci-Fiction, more specifically the Ridley Scott film “Alien” and the H.R Giger designs used in it, Nostromo being the name of the spaceship.

The Nostromo watch was created in collaboration with master watchmaker Eric Coudray and designer Jean-Francois Ruchonnet and is a new interpretation of their Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical.

The Winch Tourbillon Vertical was released in 2009 and drew its inspiration from sailing boats and nautical themes.

A combination of classical and retro-futuristic mechanisms are used for the Nostromo’s movement. The case is made from PVD-treated titanium and fitted with two sapphire crystals at the sides and a sapphire back, revealing the architecture of the movement -the wheels and drums and the powerful drive shaft.

Moon Dust DNA

Romain Jerome caused some controvercy in 2007 with the release of their Titanic DNA series of watches which used steel and coal from the ill fated ocean liner, some feeling the watches were in poor taste. However the watches proved very popular and forced Romain Jerome to release the next in their “DNA of Famous Legends” series earlier than anticipated.

For the next series Romain Jerome has changed theme from the depths of the ocean to the stratospheric heights of the moon for its follow up watch, the Moon Dust DNA.

It incorporates moon dust taken from a rock brought back from the first moon mission in 1969, the case uses steel from the Apollo 11 spacecraft and the strap is made from spacesuit fibers. In a tribute to the first moon landing the watch is limited to 1969 pieces.

The Moon Dust-DNA collection will start at USD 15,000 and run to USD 500,000.

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Diesel DZ9044

This could be the watch for those who hate to be predictable.
Where typically you’d expect to find the watches face, the DZ9044 intriguingly features..nothing.

You soon realise you can in fact tell the time with this watch by looking at its sides rather than its top.

There you find two tiny watches on either side, allowing you to display four different time zones.

With a faceless identity this slick looking, minimalistic watch by Diesel could be the ultimate incognito watch.

Price:$375

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4N Mechanical Digital Watch

This mechanical digital watch uses 3 sets of discs with numbers that rotate to tell the time. French company 4N derives its name from the “four numbers” on a digital counter which represent the time and this is their first watch. The company was setup by François Quentin who is co-founder of Hautlence

Unlike the design of the watch the model is called 4N-MVT01/D01/42 not exactly catchy, and it uses aluminium, titanium and carbon fibre in its construction.

The movement is in-house made and manually wound, the hours and minutes are to be jumping hours and minutes.

Only 16 will be made.

3D representation

The last model in the Urwerk 103 line was apparently partly inspired by the Mexican Fireleg Tarantula.

According to Urwerk’s Martin Frei it is their first masterpiece, “it is the one that symbolises to this day the perfect balance between elegance and technicity.”

It uses a unique display with four titanium “orbiting satellites” each featuring three hour numbers which rotate and link up with the minute arc at the bottom to indicate the time.

Mexican Fireleg Tarantula

Limited edition of 60 timepieces

Price:$50,000

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Ladoire RGT Punk Rock

Ladoire Geneve make avant-garde timepieces with complications. They are a fairly new Swiss company formed in 2007 and have an unconventional approach to watchmaking.

This can be clearly seen in some of the design features of the RGT Punk Rock model; its crown is at the 8 o’clock position instead of the typical 3 and it has an unusually shaped asymetrical case as well as the very unconventional face and dial design.

The RGT line is Ladoires first series of timepieces and stands for “Roller Guardian Time” , the name indicates the use of rotating discs which are mounted on ceramic micro ball bearings used to show the hours, minutes and seconds.

Seiko “Discus”

This Seiko mechanical digital watch as its name suggests uses the revolving disc method for displaying the time. The outer ring for hours, the middle for minutes and the innermost for seconds.

As well as a couple of tiny green arrows the small aperture for viewing the time has a crystal which is frosted except for a clear section in order to help make it easier reading the current time.

The rear of the watch uses a design like the front, with a circular window for viewing the automatic 23 jewels movement.

Price:$800
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Di Grisogono Meccanica DG

Its described as the most complicated mechanical digital watch in the world and consists of 651 pieces. Its apparently the first entirely mechanical watch with a digital display that shows a second time zone.

The mechanically driven digital display is operated by a series of cams and gears, the digital segments are formed from tubes, each segment rotating 90 degrees to indicate the time.

This is a limited edition watch with just 177 of these being made to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Di Grisogono. Measures 56 x 48 mm

Price:$200,000
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Chronoswiss “Digiteur”

The Digiteur is an elegant synthesis of the past and the present and as implied by its name, uses a digital display, one that was popular in the 1920’s and 1930’s using printed discs which rotate to display hours, minutes and seconds.

Chronoswiss developed a unique mechanism to support this digital display.

The minute and seconds disks rotate continuously whilst the hour disk moves in one digit increments in “jumping hour” fashion.

It measures 45.5mm X 27.7mm and has a sapphire crystal and display back for viewing the Mechanical 15 Jewels Manual wind movement.

Price:$13,500

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Urwerk 203
Urwerk was formed in 1997 by watchmaker brothers Felix and Thomas Baumgartner along with designer and friend Martin Frei. The name is derived from the city of Ur “where our perception of time was molded over 6000 years ago by the moving shadows cast by the obelisks of Ur” and the German for “work”.

Their UR-203 model features a dial using a “patented revolving satellite complication with integral telescopic minutes hands”. The use of the word “satellites” is significant because designer Martin Frei draws inspiration from Spaceships, his father having worked with the team that built the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module).

MB&F HM2-SV

This is the “Sapphire Vision” version of MB&F`s Horological Machine No. 2

The main difference is the substitution of the metal front plate of the watch for a large 3.6mm thick sapphire crystal so that a view of the entire movement can be appreciated.

Crystals of this size are notoriously difficult to create, the cutting alone takes 55 hours and quite a few break in the cutting and drilling stages, this could well be why this is such a limited edition watch with only 25 being produced.

The dial on the left displays the date as well as moon phase indicator. The right one a jumping hour display and retrograde minute display.

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HD3 Complication Bi Axial Black Pearl

With the success of the Vulcania model, HD3 brought out its bi-axial tourbillon with the launch of the new and most exclusive Black Pearl range.

For this new adventure Fabrice Gonet was inspired by the wonderful era of pirates and buccaneers, to which he added the retro-futuristic steampunk style so uniquely characteristic of Vulcania.

The design of the Black Pearl watch case is straight out of the world of pirates: there is a hatch on the 9 o’clock side of the case which looks like a cannon hatch of a naval man o’war from former times. It opens to give a panoramic view of the tourbillon from the side, and also reveals a plate on which can be engraved the name of the owner and ‘captain’ of the timepiece.

The hatch is decorated with a small plate in titanium pvd showing the famous skull-and-crossbones flag of the pirate Jack Rackham.