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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...]

Anything is possible, and largely because of that, we couldn’t draw a picture of the future. But we still keep wondering, what the next day will be like, or simply what the next watch will be like? Neither do I know that, but I know exactly how the watch designed by Andy Kurovets looks like. It’s truly neat, elegant and awesome! Consisting of two LED screens, the wristwatch tells time in quite a different way, but it’s also interesting. Well done again, Andy Kurovets! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wow, so awesome! Traditionally, you wear a watch, but now you…support a watch. Embedded in your skin, the watch is powered by the biological energy, and that’s why I mean you support a watch. If you’d like to reset the time, you firstly have to connect the watch to other external devices, in a wireless way of course. Moreover, the watch won’t appear unless you flex your wrist. Pity it’s just a concept watch at present. Could anyone develop a real one? Let me know.

Yes, a watch without hand is not that unique, but what about the OZO Watch that features a funnel design? From Russia, OZO is a cool watch that places the hours and minutes in two wheels, which will meet in the middle between the funnel shape to tell the time. Check out the product page if you love the idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Could any mechanical watch still be deemed as a “watch” if it has no hands? Of course and just have a look at this watch! The designer hides the hands under the dial plate and hollows out the markers so that the watch can tell time by showing numbers in different colors. Particularly, when the blue hour hand and the red minute hand coincide, the colorless marker will change into charming purple. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though it’s a ritual behavior to share time, we’re frequently up to the work and couldn’t spare to tell others the time. So, why don’t we make a change, say, let others to read the time in the same way as you do? Through a slight change of turning the display board 90 degrees, the Sharing Watch from Korea makes it more convenient for both you and others to read the time.

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Inspired by the fantastic movement of planets revolving around the sun, designer Kenneth has found his way to conceptualize wristwatches with the Eclipse Wristwatch. Though still maintaining the mechanical aspects of traditional watches, Eclipse features an exceptional way to tell time. As the two rotating discs rotate clockwise, seemingly as if the planets are revolving around the sun. The time is referenced via the two time marks on both dials. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though time is invisible, the intelligent inventors have already come up with watches to make time visible. But if you want to see clear how time passes, you may need a more accurate watch, like the Tape Watch with an attracting style. Constructed of 3 tape measures, the new watch tells time via its tick marks. Hence you could always know the exact time and use your time more properly.

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Have you ever been lost to the virtual world on web, wasting too much time and divulging plenty of privacy? Then the blue FaceBook watch will be the optimum way for you to express your true feelings. But if you’re a faithful member of network society, the white watch is your other alternative to replace your hours with the logos of the biggest social networking sites.

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The soft watch looks just like the black and white TV set with an entity antenna in 1980s. On its surface, there is an hour hand and a minute hand, which can be adjusted through the attunement knob or the channel- switch knob on the side face.

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The Anti-Snoring Device Snore Stopper Watch can reduce snoring frequency and volume by a natural biofeedback technique. While you sleeping, a bio-sensors can detect your snore and release a gentle electronic acupuncture massage pulse to train your body to relax your muscles and end the snoring. The best thing about this device is that it is absolutely safe – non addictive, no side effects, reducing snoring frequency and volume without disturbing normal sleeping.

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At first glance, this seems like a faceless watch chain. However, it is a real chain. All the LED used to indicate the time is hidden in the joints of the chain. When it light up, you’re gonna get the time.

Traditional watch is only a time telling tool. Rather than eschewing the conventional division of a day into 24 hours, the dial plate is divided into unites of median daily routine. So you can read the schedule not merely some digits.

Designer: Crispin Jones

Almost every single gadget has a digital clock and so the reason for most of us to wear a watch is not just for time. In order to match the demand of the customer, watch maker need to provide more style product. And this caterpillar is a good example. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This watch is based on solar system. The central red part is sun and the two planets rotating around is used to indicate hours and minutes. With the black background, this mini solar system is more vividly. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Walking on the road is a common thing for a normal person but it will be dangerous for the deaf. Because of lacking the ability of hearing, they won’t be warned by the horn of cars. And this design is going to tell the deaf about the potential danger.

It comes with a pair of rings and a wristwatch. As soon as the device detected some preset sound, the rings will warn the user by vibration. As regard the mean of the sound, he can check it out from the screen of the watch. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This may be the coolest watch I ever seen. Unlike all other watches in the market, this UR 202 one is driven by compressed air. Since the inner space is airproof, the built-in twin turbines start spinning as long as temperature changed to driven the watch. Moreover, in order to cushion sharp movements and accordingly increases lifespan, there is a 3-position selector switch on the backside of the watch. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Once you get the time from this watch, you will notice that your life will be over in the future. So, you have to work harder to make your life more valueable.

Remember, you will die! [Read the rest of this entry...]

You won’t believe that this gorgeous bracelet is actually a watch at a glance. However, in fact, the time will magically float inside the crystal when you touch the two contact points.

It is made from crystal, stainless steel and a Spessartite Garnet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This watch create a new way to show time. It comes with three separated color band that can move around the watch with time goes by. You can also change the color of the time band. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Although handcuffs aren’t a good thing for most people, you might like this handcuff-shaped watch. [Read the rest of this entry...]

How could a watch be crazy? Because that the number scale of this watch is not continuous, so the dial gonna suddenly jump to next hour every hour changing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you like star and hate a blanket watch face, this might be the best choice for you. It comes with a view of heavens that rotates in real time to make your watch fantastic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is actually a face-less watch, which comes with several mini LED projectors. You could just watch time from your skin. Plus, since the designer is a Chinese, you could also get Chinese with this watch. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Fire alarm is really a huge sound, but it is different for the hearing impaired. So, they need a better alarm device.

With a built-in detector, when the sound around the user changes frequency, this watch could alarm the user by vibrating. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You might still remember the gear clock we mentioned before, now we have a similar watch with a static dial. The point is that this watch has three individual spinning parts to indicate hour, minute and second.

If you can’t figure it out, a tiny pair of green arrows on the glass make it obvious what time it is. [Read the rest of this entry...]