Awesome Watches

One of Ladoire’s limited-edition Black Widow watches, this exquisite thing tells time with rotating disks driven by ceramic ball bearings. We love the red accents on the crown and leather band.

Jose Geraldo Reis Pfau uses wristwatch parts to create different kinds of motorcycles. Pfau actually started making miniatures using keys, and has also used eyeglasses as materials.

The bright and simple new Soleus collection of running watches offers intuitive features like big digits, interval timers, and longer lights, which all work to enhance the running experience.

The simplest, most unassuming watch we’ve seen from Tsovet. Features a white stainless steel face with black stainless second numbers, and a thick brown leather band with white contrast stitching.

Most night-readable watches just have glowing faces. But Diesel’s Glow timepiece add luminescent bands so not only can you see the time, your friends can see you at your next rave.

The Carrera Mikrograph has an astonishingly accurate central chronograph hand that displays time at intervals of 1/100th of a second. The rose gold edition is limited to 150 pieces only.

Designed by Roger Tallon for Lip in the 70’s, the Mach 2000 Chronograph is a classic vintage watch with distinct multi-colored balls that function as the crown and stopwatch pushers. (Thanks Alan!)

VOID’s striking VO2 watch features a speedometer style dial set in a case that shows only half the traditional face. The hour and minute hands have red or white tips that correspond to the display.

This beauty combines the aesthetics of Italy’s Pininfarina with the Swiss watchmaking precision of Bovet. The stainless steel Cambiano chronograph is at once modern and timeless in style.

Designed by Jorge Hysek, the HD3 Slyde doesn’t try to cram information into its tiny screen. It doesn’t have to, because it has several screens. A simple swipe reveal its other functions. Demo here.

Vacheron Constantin’s Patrimony Traditionelle World Time watch lets you see the time in all of the 37 zones around the world, thanks to its sapphire 24-hour dial and steel map dial.

This titanium marvel won’t win points for simplicity, but we are awestruck by its intricate movement, which displays the time along the right edge using a numeric arrow pointing at the current minutes.

Maximilian Büsser & Friends offers the final watch in the HM2 line, the HM2 SV Final Edition; limited to 18 pieces, it’s offered in 18K gold or titanium and features the signature sapphire crystal cover.

Mengshun Wu’s concept watch combines elements of vehicle design, such as dashboard gauges and disc brakes, constructed from automotive materials like aluminum, carbon fiber, rubber and glass.

For those who fancy a timepiece with a distinctly old world appeal – or if you’re just not comfortable having something on your wrist – there’s the Nixon Highball pocket watch.

A rectangular case and bezel feature a bidirectional stainless steel sliding cover that moves to reveal your choice of analog or binary time display on THE ONE’s Slider Analog-Digital Stainless Watch.

Ziiiro watches have an eye-catching way of telling time, using swirls instead of hands. The Mercury has a stainless mesh strap, while the Gravity has an interchangeable silicone and steel band.

Inspired by the Art Deco style popularized in the 20s and 30s, Duesenberg watches are made with stainless steel and gold, while their straps are designed to be usable with any Duesenberg model.

A well-done combination of modest colors and a bold build, the SVT-AT76 is made of gun metal and stainless steel with an Italian calf strap and luminous blue markers. Limited to 25 pieces.

We’re liking the very modern looks and design of this special edition Satellite watch from Storm, with transparent half moon face and dual time feature. Available in black, slate and rose gold.

Qian Yiran “Eye of the Storm” digital watch has a gaping hole where it’s face should be, instead showing the time by marking the spots where the minute and hour hands would be around the edges.

ShopAdorn is offering 10% off through 12/31 (promo code Awesome10), and if you email us, you’ll be entered to win this cool LCD EOS watch (Contest has ended, congrats to the winner!)

Inspired by Mr. Lauren’s 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe, this gorgeous, masculine timepiece offers an outer dial crafted from elm burl wood, and a dial that echoes the gauges of the auto.