Behold the MB&F Horological Machine 8 – for those who like their time presented in stylishly complicated analogue form.
Bidirectional jumping hours and sweeping minutes glimpsed through sapphire crystal prisms in the titanium/gold enclosure, brushed gently by the pigskin leather of your handmade driving glove.
Previously: The Ultimate Plane Geek Timepiece
Ted writes:
This has been popping up on my Facebook feed today. Just five easy instalments of of €31.99.
Irish Independence Limited Edition men’s watch (The Bradford Exchange)
But wait.
Other terrible beauties are available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZuhJFY3SS8
Watch manufacturer Seiko demonstrates its micro-engineering chops with a very tiny and rather pleasing to observe Rube Goldberg machine (or Heath Robinson contraption, if you prefer).
Insanely expensive Star Wars inspired wrist candy – a limited edition of 500 devices from luxury timepiece maker DevonWorks.
The watch retails at $28,500. But they throw in a set of TIE fighter cufflinks for free.
So that’s all right then.
Niall writes:
Apple Watch Shmapple Watch. Nokia did it back in the day before it was cool…or remotely practical.
Behold the John The Baptists of the smart watch world.
Above: The Sinclair calculator watch kit (1976); Seiko Wrist Computer (1984); the Casio CMd-10B remote control watch (1993); the wrist PDA (2004) and Pulsar 18K calculator watch (1976), Nelsonic Star Trek II watch (1982) and Seiko TV watch (1983) and the Wrist Radio (1976).
Three minutes over the shoulder of a Swiss watchmaker as he assembles a not inexpensive high-end NOMOS Glashütte watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqZl2QIz0c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQ3y902DEQ
Google’s new Android Wear operating system for wearables – social media, apps, jellyfish warnings and whatever you’re having yourself sent direct to your wrist.
The Midnight Planetarium Timepiece (don’t call it a watch) by Van Cleef & Arpels and Christiaan Van Der Klaauw features six ‘planets’ made of semi-precious stones.
The ‘planets’ rotate according to their actual solar years: Mercury goes round every 88 days, Venus: every 224 days, Earth: every 365 days, Mars: every 687 days, Jupiter: every 12 years and Saturn: every 29 years.
Uranus and Neptune are excluded because they take so long (84 and 164 years respectively) to orbit the sun, they would appear stationary on the dial.
Choose your lucky day and the Earth will align with the painted star to signify it.
Unveiled at the annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva after three years of development, the timepiece is available to buy for a mere €180,000 and charge.
