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I haven’t gone berserk over a watch in a long time, but this is so simple and cool that I’m sort of verklempt.

Pardon the pun, but this watch is timeless. Designed by Piero Lissoni for Alessi, I could see this on the wrist of any man for years to come. Clean, simple design, the square face is elegantly rounded, with a full-sweeping second hand.

“The E8 is a watch that revolutionizes the way we read time. It has a unique display mode. Time. It is fleeting, yet it can take on an entire new dimension that can be read in virtually any light. According to designer, Brieuc du Roscoät, the E8 ‘symbolizes a different approach to time, built around a new identity, new landmarks. E8 takes us with its simplicity to the reality of a universal graphical era.’ Alarm – EL Display.”

I think I saw this on Gizmodo.com a couple of weeks ago, and figured since I keep thinking about it, I might as well post it. It might be a little too big for my dainty wrist, but for anybody else, I’d say go ahead and get it.

Available in a tan leather wristband with yellow lights or a black leather wristband with red lights.

(26 x 3 x 1cm)

If you like “crazy future” fashion, this may be for you.

This watch is like one of those old school holograms where when you look at it at one angle you see one thing and look at it another you see something else. To see the time look at it straight on, twist your wrist a few degrees to see the date, and angle it another way to display a range of emoticons. Why you would need to see emoticons on your watch, I’m not sure. They are annoying enough on your computer.

I swoon. The Nooka Zoo V2 (shown on right) and the Nooka Zot V2 (on left) gives me heart palpatations and sweaty palms. It’s too big for my dainty wrist, but goodness, if you’ve got an arm hefty enough to hold such a fine design why not buy it? Watches as nice as this are worth the investment.

“The Nooka Zoo V2 sports a full-face mineral crystal lens. Smudged? Just wipe clean on your designer t-shirt. New features include a chronograph for timing poker games, and an alarm for morning wakeup. Patented design, stainless steel, measures 35mm x 35mm x 9mm. Waterproof.”

Mm-hmm. Nice watch, ain’t it?

“Part of Alessi’s 2005 Fall/Winter collection, the buckle series by Patricia Urquiola may be worn on the wrist or with an optional leather necklace… Shown here is the black version which features stainless steel case, leather strap, 5ATM water resistant, and mineral crystal.”

Do you live in one time zone and have a loved one in another? Or maybe you like to operate on Greenich Mean Time wherever you are. Whatever the case, the dual time zone watch by husband-and-wife design team Massimo and Lella Vignelli use put a new technology to allow the scratch-proof crystal to be set flush to the edge of the case without bevel or rim.

Lately, I’ve been enchanted by this cranberry/fuchsia color and it seems that almost everything I buy lately is this color. It’s like those birds that are attracted to shiny objects. I’m not proud of it, but I had to acknowledge this certain weakness I’m having for it lately.

It’s designed by Karim Rashid for Alessi, and the collection, in his words “is symbolic of technology, the cosmos, and the passage and cyclical nature of time”

Also available in brown, black, and silver-grey.
polyurethane case & strap, acrylic crystal and 3ATM water resistant.

It will be available in October but you can order today.

Now I’m torn…I thought perhaps I had found the perfect watch (see previous posts), but look at this one! What to do?! It doesn’t have all the bells a whistles that some other watches have, but I think it completely makes up for all that in it’s simplicity.

designer: Flemming Bo Hansen
materials: Polypropylene, stainless steel
Displays date and time.

I’ve been looking for a watch and I think I’ve found quite possibly the perfect one. The large numbers show the current time while the small ones indicate a second time zone, alarm, date, chronograph (!), and countdown timer. And the face lights up. (Philippe Starck, 2000-2001)

Size: Case .75w x 1.25″l

Designed by Matthew Waldman in 1997, yet looks like it was designed today (or, I suppose, tomorrow). Made of stainless steel with mineral crystal, quartz movement, LCD, and leather strap. Blue backlight, date, water-resistant.