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Good ideas in, good ideas out. After Motorola has been “married” to Google, the company is seemingly to announce much more amazing products, including the MotoACTV Smart Watch, a GPS-enabled watch built with a music player, a wireless Bluetooth headphone, an FM radio and so on. It is compatible with your Android phone for call and text receiving, and weighs merely 35g for a comfortable wearing. The watch will soon be available in November, featuring an 8GB or 16GB of internal storage.

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Designed as a water-proof wrist watch, the new accessory here shapes just like a solid tank. It includes two parts to indicate time: the small dome on the top for hours and the window in front for minutes. Mainly made from titanium, the watch will no doubt rank on top of the world’s luxuries and it is available in merely 100 pieces worldwide for $7737 each. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A series of watches designed by Zach Weiss to indicate time, temperature, weather and other information with eye-catching round hours hand and seconds hand. Plus, these watches also feature maximum simplicity and functionality, making them more attractive than other kinds of timepieces. Pity that the ORBO series is merely a concept at present and we’ve no information when they’ll hit the market. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Even though we’ve already had cellphones with built-in alarms, we seldom have a watch that doubles an alarm. Except for the “An Alarm”. What makes the watch special is that it gives a vibration on the wrist instead of sound. Isn’t that cool? You’ll never miss any dates. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apparently Geneva-based Altanus has resulted in a world-wide revolution of timepieces after they announced to own the world’s first biodegradable paper watch “Patch”. Available in 10 neon colors, the Patch features a simple LED ticker and it is degradable in nature, therefore leaving little prints to the environment when the timepiece is no longer needed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You must have noticed that people usually bend at the elbow to read the time, but do you know why they do that? Well, because they don’t have an Off-Axis Watch. Designed by Eric Janssen, the new watch features an innovative viewing axis that has been rotated clockwise by 30 degrees for convenient time-reading. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Developed by Cabestan Watches, ‘Sol Invictus’ is the first solar-powered mechanical timepiece around the world. It features the new iconic chain and fusée, drums and vertical tourbillon, and also adopts the silicium crystals as efficient solar cells to generate sufficient power.

Its inner system is rather sophisticated- two brushless motors are used for rewinding the movement and setting the time, as well as a miniature controller for regulating the motors’ speed and amplifying the electrical charge. The motors and the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are positioned under the solar cells. But wearing a price tag of $560,000, will the timepiece really be that popular? Hmm…It remains to be seen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The two common kinds of watches separately has their own advantages—digital watches tell us the exact time directly and clearly, while mechanical watches also double as fashionable accessories for success men. So what about combining them two together? Apparently, the result is the 4N watch. It features the quirky disc-based mechanism, which rotates the numbers to deliver the time as the digital watches do. Leaving aside its high-quality material and fine workmanship, simply the limited run of only 16 units has confirmed our speculation that the watch must be quite expensive! [Read the rest of this entry...]

You think the watch is merely an amazing concept? It’s real, coming from Thomas Prescher. All its components have been hidden in the bezel except the tourbillon, which is held in the middle of space by a single metal wire. The rotating cylinders at the top separately indicate the hours and minutes. Positioned between them is a spherical, moon phase calendar. At the bottom is also an interesting calendar—days on the left and months on the right. Integrated with a horizontal swinging oscillating weight based on gravity, the calendar would show you the dates no matter which side of the watch is held up. Also note that there’re two crowns, one for winding and the other for setting the time and calendar. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Tokyoflash is a Japanese watch manufacturer that believes “the crazier, the better”. One of their unique design—’LED Watch’ may help you catch on that slogan better. It is the world’s first Morse Code Watch, featuring three modes for telling the time: Audio speaker sounding out the time in Morse Code, regular time display and Morse Code LED display. Taking the last time display for example, the LEDs will light up for three times to indicate the exact time. For the first time, each stripe on the display stands for ‘an hour’, for the second time, they means ‘ten minutes’, and for the last time, each of the stripe indicates ‘one minute’. So the watch shown in the picture below just tells “10:58″. You think that’s complicated? Surely it is to others, but not to the owners. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Not all the hands on watches are used to indicate the time. Sometimes, they’re just designed for decoration, or merely for fun, such as Stas Aki’s watch. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You may not like the Chameleon, but you’re sure to love the Chroma Watch designed by Laurinda Spear. Just as you’ve guessed from its name, the Chroma Watch is related to the Chameleon because the watch could change colors too. Not only do the numerals change colors every minute, but the hour hand displays different colors from one color palette to another.

Two versions are available now, including the Steel Mesh Band and the Black Leather Band. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Also coming with a key hole as doors do, the cool watch is specially intended for those perfect moments you ever wished to lock forever. That sounds attractive, right? As you can see from the pictures, the outer circle works as the minute hand and the inner key hole is actually the hour hand. You’ve gotten that? Good. It is available in three different designs, all simple but nice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What came to you on the first sight of the watch? It’s an image of the earth revolving around the sun? Yep, just as its name ‘Geocentric’ implies, Geoffrey Cooper’s watch has simulated the revolution of the earth around the sun. It has three rings, and it is the two bigger rings that are in constant motion to display both the hour and the minutes. And what is the red spot on the smallest ring is pointing to is rightly the current time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A dazzling watch…It is surprisingly full of so many red, green and orange ants. OMG, who can tell me what on earth the time is? I must have been the weakest student in mathematics of my class. So could you tell me the time shown here? Let me know if possible. [Read the rest of this entry...]