Watches

Visually the De Grisogono Meccanico DG has 2 time-zones, one analog and the other digital. The amazing thing is that this watch is not digital, it is a series of 651 mechanical components. The numbers are formed by 23 cams that are connected to gears and a synchronization system. This could be the most complicated watch in the world, and was created for the 50th birthday of De Grisogono. The Meccanico DG is available in four styles (red gold, titanium-and-gold, titanium-and-platinum and titanium-and-rubber). Unfortunately only 177 will be made, no word on price. See more photos.

It seems like less and less people are wearing wrist watches. We all know cellphones are to blame. Most people say they don’t need a watch because their phone has the time on it. Now the tables have finally turned. The waterproof EP2502 ($299) incorporates a 1.3-inch OLED touchscreen, a 2-megapixel camera, and tri-band phone on a watch. It will give you about three hours of talk time and around 160 hours of standby.

Designed by Nuno Oliveira this Gucci bracelet watch features a sliding door revealing a glass LED display. No word on price or availability. [via] More pictures after the jump.

Jaeger LeCoultre has created yet another stunning watch for the ladies. Their Master Compressor Diving GMT Lady watch meets all the fundamental requirements of a professional diving instrument. The bezel of the watch has diamonds at the hour markers and the dial is available in both black and white and comes with a matching crocodile strap. The watch is powered by the automatic JLC caliber 971D movement which has a forty eight hour power reserve. Read the rest of this entry.

This Medicine Man Watch ($265) from Dolce & Gabbana has an awesome multicolored broadcast style dial. The bracelet is stainless steel and the watch features a Quartz movement with an Indiglo backlight. [via]

Aston Martin and Jager-LeCoultre has teamed up and

created a limited edition wrist watch that can be used to unlock and turn on the Aston Martin’s DBS, a total key replacement. The wrist watch costs $30,000 on top of the already $332,000 DBS. It comes in regular grade 5 titanium or rose-gold.
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Theses watches from designer Yvan Arpa are not only beautiful time pieces but are also made from the remains of the titanic. Apparently coal had been burned in the Titanic’s furnaces prior to its sinking and has been recovered and mixed with ceramics to create the black dials of the watches. A Swiss jeweler will be making the watches and they are going to be sold under the name “Titanic-DNA” and will be extremely rare as a limited run of only 2,012 will be produced. The watches will vary in price from $9,000 to $150,00 depending on your choice of silver, gold and/or diamonds customized on the watches. [via]

This latest design from Philippe Stark is this Veiled watch ($247). Its electroplated crystal looks like the band, making it look like a stainless steel bracelet. A closer look reviles the watches hands. The design is available for men and women, the women version being narrower.

The Joaillerie 101 Manchette is this amazing little watch from Jaeger-LeCoultre is made of a series of polished and diamond-set squares. The combination of the squares make this look more like a bracelet than a watch, however one of the squares is the watch. The Joaillerie 101 Manchette has a silver-colored dial with a sapphire crystal, and uses the mechanical manually wound Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 101 movement. The watch is available set with 576 diamonds or with 400 diamonds and 11 onyx cabochons.

Porsche Design just came out with this limited edition of the Chronographe PTC. The case, made of titanium, measures 42mm and is water resistant to 100 meters. The crystal and display back are sapphire. Movement is the automatic chronograph caliber ETA 2894-2 with a special Porsche Design rotor, and a power reserve of 42 hours. This beautiful watch is priced at 5,600€ (approx. $7,540). Via Embelezzia.

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Basel World 2007 keeps surprising us with exquisite watches. One of the most extraordinary of them coming from Bulgari. The 48mm platinum-cased Tourbillon Multicomplication Squelette was made in limited edition set of only 20 . This $150,000 watch features a perpetual calendar, and has double sapphire crystals. The watch uses an automatic in-house Caliber BVL 416 with 64 hours of power reserve.

The Only Watch event is coming again September 20th in Monaco. The Only Watch event is held yearly for watchmakers to design unique pieces that will eventually be auctioned off to benefit research on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. With that being said, some of the most unique watches are showcased. One watch that stood out from the rest was a masterpiece produced by Girard-Perregaux. “Unlike any other in the world, this is the first watch to combine perpetual calendar, the indication of time in 24 different international cities as well as the business hours of four major stock markets. The dial displays the date, the day of the week, the month and the moon phase. The mechanism takes into account the length of each month, allowing for the leap years without any manual adjustment before 2100. Two mobile rings on the dial show the opening hours of the New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo and the different times around the world”. Ideally this would be perfect for the international traveller, yet, I could still see many others finding this extremely fascinating.