The Pulsograph (Video Presentation)

Spent a truckload on your mechanical wristwatch and have a burning desire to display it the way it deserves? Design firm Dietlin has something for you – It’s called the Pulsograph and it not only displays your watch but it enhances the mechanical sound of the watch for your aural pleasure (see video). The Pulsograph is currently a prototype.

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Dietlin

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You’ve to give it to Diesel for being fresh with such consistency. This year, they made me do a double take when i first spotted the dz4160 shown above. At first I thought it was photoshopped. Renzo Russo, the man behind Diesel calls this – his company’s ability to innovate in stagnant fashion markets as the ‘Diesel treatment’.

In a recent book, Wilbert Das, Diesel’s creative director, explained their approach further:

“We’ve always been fascinated by things that are kitsch, colourful, decorative. Sometimes we refer to it as “retro-futuristic”, but that doesn’t quite capture it. We like to clash styles, piling references on top of one another. We get out of our way to challenge definitions of good taste. We’re not interested in fashion – we prefer to create things that are entirely our own. Diesel is anti-fashion fashion.

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Diesel Time Frames

Christian Audigier’s special edition

Jovial’s new baby

Both these brands are not interested in ripping each other off. Both these brands got the same watch, so what’s going on?

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Christian Audigier

Jovial

There was a time when Rolex would write down the name of the retailer on the face of the wristwatch and there was a time when Cartier used to sell Rolexes in their stores. Put two and two together and you’ve got a stack of antique Rolexes out there with the Cartier signature like this 1967 Double Red Sea Dweller up for auction that has a pre-sale estimate of between $25,000 to $45,000. Credit: Hodinkee for spotting this.

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Antiquorum

The Post-it watch only receives email and has an acid-etched glass on top which allows the user to scribble notes on the surface. This is the first wristwatch to combine an analog interface (pen/pencil) with a digital one.

Designed by Industrial Facility for Seiko and selected for the 1999 Industrial Design Yearbook. I think this was always meant to be a prototype.

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Industrial Facility

Imagine a clock that you can smash all you want and it won’t break. Keep Imagining because that clock doesn’t exist. However, Matthias Lange here, has come up with a prototype called ‘Smash’ that not only takes a beating but encourages you to by making it part of its interface. You have to punch it to stop it ringing.

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Matthias Lange

Thorunn Arnadottir’s bead clock is a necklace where each bead represents 5 minutes. The orange and red beads represent hours. As the wheel on which it rests, turns, one bead falls off thus counting the passing of time.

To tell the time, one has to count the beads and to help with that, Thorunn has a silver bead for midnight and a golden one for noon.

According to Thorunn, his prototype’s goal was to create a more ‘emotional’ perception of time and to take it further, you could express your freedom from time by removing the beads from the wheel, then in a symbolic gesture of defiance, he recommends you wear the necklace as a statement that you are in control of your minutes.

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Thorunn Design

In a world of constant reflection on the past and constant worry about what tomorrow may bring, the main goal of the Now is the Time wristwatch is to inspire timekeepers to live in the only moment that matters – right now. Void of numbers, the Now is the Time wristwatch is instead filled with a uniquely inspirational message. In place of the missing digits, the words “Now is the Time” are laid out in typical clocklike fashion.

“This is more than a wristwatch,” stated Van Strickland, creator of the Now is the Time wristwatch. “It’s a gateway to dream realization.”

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PRWeb: Inspirational Wristwatch Helps Victims Overcome Adversity

Tissot was the first wristwatch company that decided to experiment with different materials: They made the first watch out of plastic, mother of pearl, stone and of course, wood. However, all these shenanigans ended when the company was acquired by the Swatch Group.

Cue a few decades later and wood texture was hip again what with Nixon and its Rotolog, Vestal went all out with wooden dial for Paul Frank (Vestal is the license holder for Paul Frank watches) and Quiksilver one upped them all with a complete wooden special edition watch. And now, a new brand named Mica is entering the market this summer (2009) with what looks like an entire brand of wooden watches targeted the surfer/action sport community. (Also. I don’t want to skip Romain Jerome that used remains of famous tragedies or places i.e. titanic watch as inlays)

Mind you, while all of this was going on, unhip Joswissa always had a wood wristwatch collection (even a rock one too). Anyway, back to the Mica, there is no information about the price point.

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Mica (via Cldfx)

The G-Motion

To celebrate its 25th Anniversary, Guess has brought out a few new pieces including the G-Motion which uses a digital display that tells time by changing the color of the stones on the dial. It’s been done before but this is the first time its available in a everyday fashion brand.

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w80036g1b – Guess 25th Anniversary Men

455554 – Guess 25th Anniversary Ladies

w70011l1a – Guess 25th Anniversary Ladies

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Guess Watches

Pontos Decentrique GMT

Masterpiece Chrono Squelette

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Maurice Lacroix

RSW’s new mechanical timepieces for ladies is called the Moonflower. The watch was inspired by such symbols as the moon, meteorites, origins and floral compositions. The movement uses three discs to tell the hours, minutes and seconds. The watch uses an automatic movement (ETA 2824-2)

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Rama Watch

Perrelet’s Split-seconds Chronograph “Louis-Frédéric” is a tribute to the founder’s grandson. Some History here: Louis-Frédéric emigrated to Paris towards the end of the 18th century, became watchmaker to three successive kings of France, won competitions and in 1827 applied for a patent for his invention – the split-seconds chronograph counter, which also received an award from the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Almost two centuries later, Perrelet is reinterpreting this complication in two exceptional versions: one in white and pink gold limited to 50 pieces; the other in white gold in a limited series of 27. The movement is automatic (Perrelet P-241 calibre, 28,800 vib/h, 25 rubies, 46-hour power reserve)

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Perrelet

Longines Admiral

Longines Grande Vitesse

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Longines

Louis Moinet’s new Jules Verne Instrument 1 is named after science fiction writer, Jules Verne who famously wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth. Though, they want to refer specifically to a particular novel – From the Earth to the Moon for the reason that the watch has an authenticated piece of lunar rock in the side of the case at 9′o’clock. Sure, it also provides a new method to start and stop a chronograph but A LUNAR ROCK?

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Louis Moinet

Concord Tourbillion Gravity

Someone needs to tell Concord that its a recession. They just released the Tourbillion Gravity which has a bi-axial tourbillion. I really can’t tell how it works but its definitely awe inspiring to look at. The movement is a hand-wound, Concord C104 calibre (21,600 vib/h, 72-hour power reserve).

C1-World Timer

C1 Retrograde

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Concord

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DeWitt

I didn’t know this but Movado claims they were the first one to show a complete date window in their watch back in 1946. This year, they bring it back. The watch uses an ETA movement.

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Movado

.. And round and round. De Grisogono’s Instrumento Grande Open Date is a “2009 replica” of their previous case rather than an updated model. It features an automatic movement that lays bare a dual date window disc as a design feature.

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