Spotted in Park Jewellers, Athlone yesterday.
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This is the 2LMX created by the former head of the Geneva Patek Philippe museum, Arnaud Tellier.
White and pink gold, titanium and platinum encased in a sapphire-crystal face that exposes the movement. Only five (each one requiring 1000 hours of craftsmanship) will be made each year. Launching 2012.
No price yet. We’re guessing €39.99, maybe €44.95.
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The Right Angle from Tokyo Flash has a mini USB port for transferring data. And an absurd ‘cryptic face’ that allows only you to read the time with a “flick of the wrist”.
Wantsies.
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The Last Laugh Watch:
Designed with comedian, William Andrews, this watch forgoes the customary hour and minute hands. Instead, the time is displayed on a skull’s teeth. The eyes and nose are mirrored and the overall impression is of a gleefully absurd memento mori – an object intended to remind us that life is brief.
And that it’s really hard to see the time on this watch.
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The Harry Winston Opus Eleven Watch:
Anarchy takes hold of the hours indication beneath the sapphire-crystal dome every 60 minutes. The numeral of the hour, assembled in the center of the circle, explodes into chaos before instantly reassembling as the new hour. It then remains still until the next disintegration. Instead of a hand, 24 placards revolve and rotate on a complicated system of gears mounted on an epicycloidal gear-train.
It’s difficult to reconcile ‘anarchy’ with a price tag of $250,000. Or maybe it’s not.
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The UR-110 indicates time by means of a revolving satellite complication on planetary gears featuring three parallel hour/minute modules resembling torpedoes. The time is displayed on the right side of the watch, with the satellites following a vertical line – 0 to 60 minutes – in a downward motion.
What? It’s a watch?
Aside from the derpy ‘Remote Control Watch’ legend on the face, which rather spoils the effect, this is quite the device.
The six buttons on the bezel (volume, power, channel up/down, play/rewind/fast forward) let you control TVs, DVD players and any other infrared device, once you enter its three-digit ID code.
Cue hilarious stealth-trolling at family gatherings, hotel lobbies and the pub.
About $100 from Hammacher Schlemmer.
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The ‘eye of the storm’ – winner of the red dot award – is a conceptual watch-without-a-face designed by Qian Yiran. It’s completely black until you push its one and only button, illuminating two colored lights on the frame to display the analogue time.
Yanko
