2010 was a good year for admirers of unusual, unconventional or unique timepieces.
Here is a selection of some of those timepieces that break with the traditional constraints of watch design.

The amount of engineering in some cases is phenomenal, especially when you consider that essentially their end purpose is to tell you the time (or not in one case).
As watchmaker Cabestan states: “telling time is secondary to satisfying the human need for bold originality”.

The incredibly convoluted and unique ways in which these pioneers in the art of innovative timekeeping achieve their aims makes them technological wonders or even pieces of mechanical art.