Watch Design

The “Round-The-Clock Wristwatch” is an interesting concept in the form of a bracelet dreamed up by designer Körös Benedek

It offers a time display on the edge of the ring through a system of rotating discs respectively indicating the hours, minutes and seconds.

It is made ​of stainless steel but also uses plastic and rubber.

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This digital watch design has a diamond motif that recurs not just in the overall pyramid shape of the watch face but also the crown is made to resemble a diamond – something Im not entirely sure is a good idea given that it would likely dig into your arm as well as be difficult to turn.

The band also features a diamond embossed pattern. This is a concept aimed at watch manufacturer Nixon and it features simply the time/date displayed in a bold dot matrix style. Overall an interesting geometric watch design.

Designer: Emir Rıfat Işık
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The “Memento Mori” watch by Fiona Kruger is a skeleton watch with emphasis on the skull, it is a one off design created when she was studying at University of art and design Lausanne in Switzerland. The watch design is inspired by the 17th century skull watch of Mary Queen of Scotts, as well as the Mexican day of the dead, and the piece symbolizes mortality.

The watch design uses hand-engraved solid sterling silver, and the highly decorative dial is made up of gold and rhodium plated brass.
The teeth and temporal region have been fashioned out of perlage polished plates and there is subtle decoration suggesting eyebrows and cheekbones. This version uses a Swiss ETA 2824-2 automatic movement, here are the entire specifications:

Case: Solid silver, hand engraved
Crown: Silver
Movement: ETA 2824 Mechanical movement
Dial: Gold and rhodium plated brass, laser cut and engraved
Hands: Blued steel
Glass: mineral hand cut glass
Bracelet: Blued Calf leather Buckle: Silver

For more information about this design visit her website

Avenger watch

For his watch design Marko Petrovic drew inspiration from the shapes and forms in Lamborghini’s supercars, in particular the Aventador , that was released earlier in the year.

The watch, called “The Avenger” translates the Aventador’s engine into a vertical tourbillon, according to Marko Petrovic “The main idea was to transfer that sophisticated but still highly aesthetic engineering into something other than vehicle but still close to it. Vertical tourbillon mechanism seems perfect in this case, following the design in presenting not only something that looks like a cover of a Lamborghini engine, but also represents a glimpse of Lamborghini engine technology.”

It also uses the same signature black and orange colour scheme. The outside of the case is fitted with what could be the equivalent of roll bars or fenders and the overall design does a good job of capturing the Lamborghini look and feel.

Avenger watch front

Marc Tran Ringen

Marc Tran is a French Designer from ISD Valenciennes. He is currently working on his masters degree in product and services design/management.

For his Ringen watch he drew inspiration from Automobiles and the face of the watch is reminiscent of a cars headlamp. The colour balance between the blue and silver is a nice subtle nuance.

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The central anodized disc indicates the hours and the minutes are ingeniously shown by using a blue ceramic ball that moves along the ceramic slats in the face magnetically, each slat being the equivalent of two minutes. Seconds are indicated by a further small ball that rotates around the edge of the face.

You can reach Marc via Coroflot and Yanko.

Marc Tran Ringen Time displays

Marc Tran Ringen Construction

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Had to feature these stunning watch designs by Thierry Fischer, who graduated from I.S.D in France and is working on watch design at Etude de Style.

The AK Geneve concept watch is pictured above, this watch design provide hours minutes, day/night indication, and power reserves. Pictured below an astronomically inspired concept.

The “Tourbillon Blackhole”
As implied in the name, this watch design – 6 months to imagine- is inspired by space and in particular black holes.

The Tourbillon is intended to mimic a nebula and the three outer rings represent hours and minutes and have been designed to echo a vortex like shape. Seconds are indicated by a transparent disc with white star-like points. The entire effect is intended to visually reflect a blackhole.

Tourbillon black hole

Watch the video below, 3 months in creation.

You can contact Thierry through is website

Solaris by Olivier Demangel

Designer Olivier Demangel had the idea to create a futuristic solar watch after seeing a new solar powered Logitech Keyboard.

Like a lot of modern futuristic LED watches, particularly those by Tokyo Flash, its not immediately apparent how to read the time on this concept watch and it involves adding up various individual LED’s, but ‘only’ 16 in this case.

The blue LED’s on the circular outer section indicate the hours, these same LED’s also glow purple for 5 minute intervals and the LED sections on the spokes show the individual minutes. A little obscure, but for some people thats part of the attraction apparently.

The Solaris certainly looks stunning and Olivier Demangel has done a great job of creating a nicely rendered 3D version -checkout the video for full effect.

Whether it is put into production depends on how many votes it receives so if you’re interested in a real life version head over to the Tokyo Flash page and place your vote.

Or see more of Olivier Demangel’s portfolio.

E'llipse

This sleek futuristic looking watch by designers Su Chew Lee & Paolo Di Prodi doubles as a mobile phone and features UI widgets for time, weather or calendar.

The watch design is intended to blend functionality and portability with elegance.
According to the designers:

“The design was inspired by the idea of creating a functional accessory that is fashionable and comfortable to wear. Created for people who want contextual information delivered in a fashionable innovative timepiece, E’llipse represents an innovative blend of functionality and performance ina stylish and glanceable format.”

Visit the E’llipse site for more information.

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