Disappearing Hour Watch

The Vue, if you aren’t familiar with Issey Miyake, is the latest in a line of watches that are released annually by the brand. Each watch is done by a prolific designer and usually features a design or stylistic feature that makes the wristwatch unconventional. For the Vue, Yves replaced the hour hand with a disc and a filter that would make it appear as if the current hour fades in and then out. But despite a neat concept, I felt that the watch feels a little underwhelming because of its size and lacks presence. This is Yves second wristwatch after his previous one for Mini.

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Watches Made from Titanic's Hull Sell for $150,000

The watches made from the doomed Titanic are going up on sale for up to £75,000 (nearly $150,000), they are made from the hull of the Titanic. The coal which was recovered from the seabed has been mixed with ceramics to create black dials for the watches. Titanic lies 12,500 feet under the North Atlantic Ocean where it sank after it hit an iceberg killing 1,500 passengers. The metal from its hull was salvaged by divers and then blended with modern ship building steel to make the casing of these special watches.

The coals that were used in Titanic's furnaces were also salvaged from the seabed, which was then mixed with ceramics to create black dials for the watches. Romain Jerome SA, the Swiss company, is making these limited edition watches of 2,012 in numbers, a reference to the year 2012, and the 100th anniversary of Titanic's disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Swiss company also is giving the watches a unique rusted appearance using the Oxidization techniques at a lab in Switzerland. Significance is the new alloy; new steel and the old tarnished metal have been blended at the same shipping yard, Harland and Wolff shipyard at Belfast, where the original Titanic was built.

However, not everyone is happy with the Titanic watches; many of the Titanic enthusiasts have criticized them as a bad taste. The Titanic remains should be in the Museum not in the watches and sold for profit.

Doomed: The Titanic

Yvan Arpa, chief executive of Geneva-based Romain Jerome, said:

"We wanted to make a watch that had history and this is the rarest, most historical metal we could get hold of."

He said he got the idea, when he saw a piece of Berlin Wall on a mantle piece at a friend's home. He then decided to do the same with Titanic's parts in the form of watches.

Arpa said this watch will give people a chance to carry a piece of history with them in their wrist. Not everyone will be able to afford this because of its limited availability and the other reason, the prices of the watches, which ranges from £4,500 ($9,000) to £75,000 ($150,000) based on materials used, steel, silver or gold with diamonds in it.

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The 4 Most Unusual Watches from Baselworld 2010

1. 4N-MVT01/D01/4 is the first model released by the brand 4N, founded in 2009.

2. Volnatomic by by Sebastien Bottinelli (Volna) and Yvan Arpa (creator of Romain Jerome’s Titanic DNA)

3. Chopard Animal World Timepiece Collection in honor of the company's 150th anniversary

4. Urwerk UR-103T Mexican Fireleg [Note: Urwerk is ceasing production at the end of 2010]

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Artya Watches

Insane is the word that comes to mind, these Artya novelties were designed by Yvan Arpa, of Romain Jerome fame. Arpa who created rust-decked watches from the hull of the Titanic, and moon watches with actual dust from the moon and straps from the suits of cosmonauts working and living on the ISS. Arpa's designs at Artya downright attractive. With a bit of lightning, Arpa has turned steel to gold...


All the scarring and colourization on this case comes from lightning striking the case... Volna has various models struck with 100,000 volts, 200,000 volts, and 500,000 volts, to different effect.

Of the various strngths of lighting strikes, i found the 200,000 volt zap yielded the most colour. whatever's in the steel must have been fried pretty nicely.

Tesla Tourbillon
Wonderful detail here and you can see right through the watch. Nicely done, the hands, like stuff ripped off a generator. And what's a tesla instrument if it hasn't been treated to a little lightning? If i remember correctly, around 120k swiss francs.

This one's sized 38mm, struck with 500,000 volt bolt, and the scars salved with diamonds. best medicine in the world. Men will wear this just fine i think, but as an added consideration for women, it doesn't come with toad-skin leather. thoughtful.

Coprolite
Now this is very, very insteresting... every piece is unique, because the dial, that looks like marble, is actually fossil... from dinosaurs, obviously, but not the bones and remains, but the fossilised excrement. what an editorial. Cased in bronze, and around cf12,000. Not a bad deal. Crapware, but one means it in a good way.

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Porsche Design P’6780 Diver Watch

The Porsche design booth at Baselworld 2010 displayed the new P'6780 Diver watch.

Porsche Design diver's watches are rare. In fact, this is only the brand's second dive watch. The first was the Ocean 2000, and that was made by IWC and came out in the early 1980s. That was a really fantastic watch actually. Of course, the Porsche Design Diver is something totally different compared to the previous diver from almost 30 years ago.

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The Celsius X VI II Ledix Tourbillon Watch/Phone

A watch-phone or is it a cellphone-watch? The hell it cost $300,000. Anyway, Let me introduce you the Celsius X VI II Ledix Tourbillon Watch/Cellphone that retails at $300K. uh-huh, its real and some filthy rich filths do want to buy it. For what? For the hell of it. Right? If you can afford just about anything, you would buy just about everything just for the hell of it.

After three long years of research Celsius X VI II released its first ever product, which is a dubious watch/phone, some even dub it as a “dumbphone” or is it a dumb-watch-phone. people put their heads into this for 3 years, and now they present the Ledix Tourbillon Watch/phone, a clam-shell styled watch-phone with a flying tourbillion based mechanical watch movement on top of the upper shell. A pretty neat thing about it is that each time you open and close it; the watch movement gets itself 3 hours worth of power to keep in to the mainspring.

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Virt M wristwatches control your cellphone remotely

There are two types of Watch phones. 1st the traditional kind, which is a cheap cell phone crammed into a watch chassis. You dial and speak on it by shouting at your wrist, which can make for some awkward subway conversations. The 2nd one type of “watch phone,” which isn’t really a watch at all, but is instead a wrist-mounted remote control and display terminal for your cell phone. You usually pair these via Bluetooth to the phone in your pocket, and you can use them to read text messages or quickly check incoming calls. Citizen in Japan make some of the best watch phone remotes around.

The Citizen has just unveiled its latest series of i:Virt M wristwatches to the Japanese market. Like most watch phone remotes, the i:Virt M series can be used to display incoming calls, read emails or texts, or even remote control your camera’s shutter (good for a self-portrait or group shot). However, the i:Virt Ms now glow and vibrate when a new message is received, as well as display a phone’s battery level. They can also be used to turn your phone’s alarm off or to set your handset to silent mode. Cool, but not exactly must-have functionality, especially at the price: $330. For that price, you’d better be getting an amazing watch first, and some cell phone functionality second.

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inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry

inPulse Smartwatch For BlackBerry

While at one point thought to be a full on BlackBerry contained inside of a watch, it turns out that the inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry is actually just a companion for your BlackBerry. It allows you to check everything that your normal BlackBerry would let you check, without even removing the phone from your pocket.


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Newest Watch Explodes With Volcanic Force

Romain Jerome has unleashed a smoldering masterpiece actually harboring some genuine ash from that great "travel hampering" Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajokull. Fit for the wrist of a vulcanologist, this one of a kind watch is part of Romain Jerome DNA Collection. This watch is undoubtedly my favorite Romain Jerome watch thus far. The resemblance to molten lava is brilliant - black carbon bursting forth with glowing fiery orange flowing over the dial and spilling onto the bezel. The hands end in tiny airplanes hinting at the travel woes resulting from ash clouds caused by Volcano Eyjafjallokull. Over 100,000 flights were canceled making this Europeans worse breakdown in civil aviation since World War II.
A perfect fit for the DNA Collection as volcanoes spew the very core of the earth; change the very landscape we tread and make land in an ocean where no land existed.


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Touchscreen Cell Phone Watch

The LG's magical GD910 wrist phone packs touchscreen, camera and rainbows

It was deliciously inevitable that a watch phone would eventually show up that could actually "pack it all in," and it looks like LG has actually accomplished that feat in its LG-GD910 model. Of note, the phone packs a touchscreen LCD, 3G data, and a built-in camera for videoconferencing and being a general badass. Sure, browsing to your favorite gadget blog might be a tad bit difficult on that 1.43-inch screen, and there's always the question of fashion, but those are minor quibbles -- the real question is where can we get one, and for how much. LG should be showing this off at CES next month (it showed off a predeccesor this January), and plans to release it in Japan and Europe, but we've got a couple of cereal box-delivered 2-way wrist radios crossed behind our backs in hopes for a US berth.


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