Awesome Watches

If the 103 Series was too minimalistic for you, step up to the flashier 250. It’s made of stainless steel and British or Italian leather and has a textured dial. Also comes in gold and gun grey.

With its minimalist floating minute hand and a dot for hours, the Picto watch from designers Steen Georg Christensen & Erling Andersen reminds us of Pong for some reason we can’t put our finger on.

The stylish Oakley Full Metal Jacket titanium watch comes with a removable single face that can be mounted on a pocket watch chain or used as a conventional wrist watch. (Thanks Dane!)

If you’re looking for the most practical timepiece, Nooka’s latest is not for you. But if you’re after eye-catching and unique accessories, the Zizm’s faceted crystal lens (and name) will do the trick.

Bell & Ross’ new Vintage WW1 collection was inspired by the “first wristwatches worn by pilots in the 1920s.” Each of the WW1 watches have a large fob-watch type diameter and a thin leather strap.

If you can’t afford a high-end watch, but you’re still looking for style and function, check out this Timex, with its fly-back 24 hour chronograph hands. Available in a variety of classic and modern looks.

Want this Rogue Touch watch? One winner gets it – or any other in-stock watch from TokyoFlash Japan. To enter, email [email protected] with a link to the watch you want. (Contest has ended.)

After the boombox watch and the turntable watch, Flud continues its music theme with the BPM, a wristwatch that looks like a drum machine. The geeky truth? It’s actually a calculator watch.

TAG Heuer’s Mikrotimer Flying 1000 concept watch is the only watch in the world that can measure time down to 1/1000th of a second, thanks to its insanely fast caliber. More on Hodinkee.

Yvan Arpa for ArtyA comingled Swiss watchmaking and firearms with a bezel and inner dial like a target sight, six 6mm Flobert bullets suspended in the dial, and three 38mm cartridges on back.

IWC’s Portuguese Sidérale Scafusia is their most exclusive and complicated mechanical watch, with a constant-force tourbillon for star and solar time and a spectacular celestial chart on the back.

Inspired by the watches worn by pilots in the 1920s, the WW1-92 has a wonderfully warm feel to it, with natural hues and sand-colored luminescent dial, it’s a classic for years to come.

Designer Jordy Smith’s stylish, but high-tech watch offers an innovative “Suffer and Recover” mode, which helps you interval train, and also tracks tide predictions for 200+ beaches around the world.

Urwerk puts an unusually intricate mechanical movement in this modern take on the pocket watch, offering measurements in intervals from 1 second to 1000 years. Limited to just 8 pieces.

Enter to win and be the first to own the gorgeous new Braun BN10 wristwatch, with a modern LCD display and scroll wheel control set into an elegant stainless steel case. (Contest has ended.)

This 1966 Oyster Perpetual Air-King Precision is the pinnacle of understated elegance. The stainless steel case, silver dial and tricolor wrist strap combine for a timeless (if a little patriotic) look.

Dingemans Mechanische Horloges is a brand of made-to-order, hand crafted mechanical watches by Fred Dingeman. Fred actively involves customers in designing each of their timepieces.

One of MoMA’s best sellers, it’s an analog wristwatch that behaves like a digital one. The current time is shown in full, while the coming and past hours and minutes fade into and out of view.

The Aquatimer chronograph Galapagos edition has a stainless steel case coated with matte-black rubber for a unique look and feel. Has a sapphire glass and luminescent hands, dial and bezel.

Flip the lid on the stylish black metal P 6520 watch from Porsche Design, and it reveals a liquid compass for helping you find Magnetic North. As a Porsche, it’s appropriately limited to 911 units.

If you love the iPod Nano and drinking beer, the Richard Tracy Nano Watch Band Beer Openers are for you. You’ve got music, you can tell the time and you can open a drink – what more do you need?

Unlike Microsoft’s current video game console, the name of the Nooka 360 actually makes sense. That’s because the whole watch case rotates 360º to make it easier to show other people the time.

At first glance at designer Denis Guidone’s minimal black wristwatch, you might think the hands are broken, but once you get a hang of it, it’s actually quite easy to read. (Thanks, Random Objects!)