Awesome Watches

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.

The sleek TRON-inspired 7R0N watch concept by Scott Galloway has an electroluminescent strap and bright LED face with 2 rings: an outer ring for the minutes and an inner ring for the hours.

This modern, minimal timepiece from Fossil can tell time in two time zones simultaneously. Each face uses a tiny stainless steel fragment to tell hours, and a simple + for minutes. Also in orange.

At last, iPod Nano 6G watch bands that are more than just plastic strips. Scott Wilson’s TikTok band is temporary, while the LunaTik lets you screw-in the Nano for a more permanent conversion.

Perrelet’s new Turbine XL features a bold 50mm diameter case, Diamond Light Coating treated steel bezel, automatic winding, rubber bracelet and choice of steel, titanium or gold options.

A sleek watch that trades buttons for a touch screen. Tap the screen and the display appears, swipe to reveal the various modes and to set the time or alarm, and pinch to remove an alarm.

Happy Hour’s stainless steel Bottoms Up watch is water resistant to 5 ATM, sports a luminous analog clock and (most importantly) has a bottle opener built right into the band buckle. (Thanks Jason!)

We’ve seen many attempts to create a watch band for the iPod Nano 6G, but none is so stylish and well integrated as the Hex watch casing, which truly gives Nano owners the coolest watch on the block.

This geeky accessory pays homage to simpler times, when the video game worlds were made of blocks and not polygons. Has a stainless steel face with ABS plastic band. Goes well with the 8-bit tie.

Nooka’s ambidextrous Zub Zayu watch is an asymmetrical timepiece featuring display with time capsule graphic, ergonomic design and sleepmode to conserve battery when not in use.

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The traditional hour and minute hands on the i-toc watch have been replaced with graduated circles, which offer a more intuitive way to view time and a distinctive, constantly changing visual pattern.

Luxury watch maker Altanus has unveiled these paper-thin watches made from biodegradable paper. Although they look fragile, the watches are waterproof, shock- and tear-resistant.

This unusual watch concept would tell time not with ordinary hands or digits, but with screw heads that turn to form numeric patterns. Flip to the last image in the gallery to see what we mean.

a.b. art’s all black OA series watch is limited to an edition of 300. The 40.5mm stainless black PVD case offers an AR-coated sapphire crystal, half moon display back and water resistance to 30m.

WeWood makes affordable yet stylish wooden wristwatches. The watches not only have wooden straps, they also have wooden cases and faces. Choose from the analog Date or the digital Crono.

Sotheby’s will be auctioning off a Patek Philippe Calatrava with a special touch. His Airness bought the watch in 1997 and gave it to then Chicago Bulls Assistant Coach Tex Winter as a Christmas gift.

Eric Janssen’s Off-Axis watch has its face offset by 30-degrees clockwise from a standard watch, making easier to read the time at the natural angle of your wrist when you go to check the time.

The stealthy Red Depth is a pimped out Rolex Submariner 16610LV. Custom touches include Black DLC coating, black lume dot, double red dial text overprinting and enameled case engraving.

For hardcore fans of photography only. The F-Stop watch features aperture numbers instead of the 12 normal hours. Get used to this and you’ll have 2.8- and 5.6 o’clock in your vocabulary.

If you’re interested in wooden watches but want something more subtle than the Wood Shock, then the Mica Plank is right up your alley – its case and strap are carved from 100% Maple wood.

The Caliber 01 movement is now in the Navitimer model. The steel version is limited to 2,000 pieces; the rose gold version will only have 200 units. The watch also features a transparent caseback.

A re-run of, well, the Re-Run model, the Rubber Re-Run has eye-popping, toy-like colors. The case is made of polycarbonate, with polyurethane buttons and crystal glass, while the band is silicone.