This avant-garde interpretation of the classic pocket watch is courtesy of Swiss brand Hautlence. It features two modern complications. The first is a jump hour, which uses a disk with an aperture to view the hour on the left side. The second is a retrograde to show the minutes, shown on the right side. Then a small subdial displays the seconds at the bottom. The skeleton dial is made of rhodium (a rare silvery-white element, similar to platinum), featuring their signature honeycomb pattern. The pocket watch the model is holding has a titanium case. The version below features a rose gold case. While Luxury Bazaar doesn’t carry the pocket watch version, make sure to check out the rest of the .

Harry Winston Opus Eleven tag watches replica

 

The is part of a numbered series of collaborative timepieces, which have gathered some of the most talented watchmakers to create for each one. This remarkable piece took over 14,400 hours to engineer alone. Using an complex system of gears and disks, the dial 'explodes’ then reforms to display the time. This watch truly has to be seen in action to believe, Check out the video in my full .

Hublot "Key of Time" watch

The  is impressive novelty piece from Hublot’s 2011 Masterpiece Collection. The name comes from the watch’s time-travelling ability, through 3 speed settings. For instance, you’re in a boring meeting and you can speed up the time or if it’s happy hour, you can slow it down. Of course this is just for fun, with the ingenious engineers also giving this watch the ability to return to the correct time, though its "mechanical memory". For more on this mysterious watch, check it out in my post .

Urwerk UR-110 Torpedo Watch

 
This unique design from Urwerk gets the "Torpedo" nickname from its 3 torpedo-shaped hands, with use rotating blocks to display the hours. A retrograde is then used for the minutes on the right side. Another torpedo-inspired aspect is the use of "twin turbine" rotors to minimize friction from the automatic winding. Being a lefty, I’m sad to say that this is a right-handed only watch, with its design fitted to display the time above the cuff of the wearer’s left wrist. To check out the UR-110 and other Urwerk watches, . For a video and more details of this watch, check it out in my post .

Urwerk UR-103

Another interesting piece featured from Urwerk was the UR-103. Its design, while inspired by ancient sundials, features ultra-modern craftsmanship to produce. To display the time, it uses four rotating satellites, spinning off a central carousel, powered by a planetary gear system. Each satellite displays 3 different hours each, with the hour being displayed passing along the minute counter at the bottom of the dial. The satellites are made of titanium, with the case made from rose gold. For night visibility, the numbers are coated with Super-Luminova. Check the UR-103 at

For the rest of the photos, check out the full post at . In case you’re still at the office or at a coffee shop, please note there are some NSFW images.




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