Awesome Watches

Limited to 1936 units, FRED Gladiateur Collector watches are made of the finest materials, including pink gold, stainless steel, diamonds, blue sapphire, natural mother-of-pearl and carbon fiber.

Casio collaborated with design duo Dee & Ricky to come up with the GA110DR-1A. The chunky watch is painted in primary colors, in keeping with the designers’ famous LEGO-based creations.

The Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Jackpot Tourbillon features a working replica of the Liberty Bell, the world’s first mechanical slot machine. The watch has a retail price of $625,000.

Glycine’s Swiss-made watches feature timeless, minimal designs, large, readable face graphics, and are made from durable stainless steel and mineral crystal glass.

The bold Converse Scoreboard Watch was inspired by game time and adapted for any kind of play. One piece construction with stacked digital display, silicone case and strap. (Thanks Tony!)

Made by Ulysse Nardin for the 20th anniversary of the Monaco Yacht Show, the Marine Diver is water-resistant up to 200m and features a stainless steel case with a matte black rubber coating.

The new limited edition Breitling Blackbird Red Strike features high contrast red accents on polished or satin-finished metal. Production is limited (by Breitling’s standards) to 2,000 pieces.

This luxury timepiece has been rumored for years, but is finally real. The Opus 3 features a dramatic display which tells time using a complex mechanism of rotating numbered discs.

Nixon coats four of its watches with their Gunship surface, claiming that this “uniquely applied finish is designed to wear increasingly with age”. Too bad we don’t have before and after pictures.

The Prometheus Watch Company’s Recon 5 mechanical Swiss-made timepiece is evolved from classic World War II flieger designs, and maintains the clean, simple lines of these traditional watches.

A simple analog watch with a flashy turntable frame. Gold too bold for you? The Tableturns is also available in silver and gunmetal. Comes with both leather strap and steel band.

Parmigiani’s slick Bugatti PF 372 Super Sport timepiece has its mechanicals on a vertical axis, carbon fiber oval dial and 6 sapphire crystals revealing the watch’s 337 components.

The limited edition This Is My Time chrono watch was created to celebrate Diesel founder Renzo Rosso’s upcoming birthday, and includes ghostly subdials, matte black case and engraved signature.

The new Dior Chiffre Rouge T01, made in a limited edition of 100 pieces, shows the time in 8 different cities, is 42mm wide, and contains an automatic Calibre Dior 8 Fuseaux Horaires movement.

The handsomely rugged Victorinox Swiss Army Infantry Vintage Chronograph Mechanical watch is offered in 3 styles, including black PVD, and features an ETA/Valjoux 7750 movement.

The latest and largest member of the G-Shock series. Dubbed the “King Of G-Shock”, the Casio GX56 ($150) is shock and mud resistant and has a scratch resistant mineral glass face.

Not to be confused with their Changing Lanes watch, the latest from Japan’s Tokyoflash, the Kisai Traffic tells time using bright blue, orange and green LED lines that look like roads.

A concept wristwatch for the visually-impaired. The face of the watch displays the time in Braille. The user can also raise his arm and tilt the watch toward his ear to make it say the time aloud.

Featuring a minimal one-handed display, each Solus is crafted from a hefty titanium case, and powered by a Swiss-made Ronda movement. Available with either a Titanium or Leather band.

Louis Vuitton’s clever Spin Time GMT watch is built on a base ETA automatic movement, has a face with 12 cubes that rotate to show numerals in 24 hour format, an orange GMT hand and gold case.

APUS Alpha and Beta steel wristwatches feature high-contrast Organic LED screens for easy reading in any lighting condition. The numeric display should run for up to a year on a battery.

They’ll know you mean business when you wear this substantial watch from Vestal. It’s crafted from surgical-grade stainless steel and fastened to your wrist with a classic leather band. Ships 8/1/2010.

The Scope is an LCD watch that mimics a radar display to tell the time. The hours are on the x-axis and the minutes are on the y-axis. Probably the most exciting way to tell the time.