"Excuse me, can you tell me the borg, please?"

[Skybird]

Weired watches, made by Urwerk (without "h", which turns the meaning of the word - originally meaning 'clockwork' - into 'ancient manufactury' or also 'ancient piece of work')

http://www.urwerk.com/collection.php (http://www.urwerk.com/collection.php)

[Gerald]

Very interesting page Sky, :yep:

[Betonov]

I want one :o

[Skybird]

The founder and chief-watchmaker of that manufactury was just 22 years old when founding it in 1997!

http://www.welt.de/lifestyle/article13571447/Urwerk-Uhren-sind-ein-wahr-gewordener-Jungentraum.html

German article, with more pics of watches.

[Gerald]

Strong worked with probably great skill, :sunny:

[Alex]

How much diplomas do you need to have to know what time it is with that stuff around your wrist ?

[Oberon]

http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/borg.jpg

"We are the Borg. At the third stroke the time sponsored by species 8472 will be twenty nineteen and thirty four seconds. Resistance is Futile."

[Pisces]

Sure looks like a temporal anomaly emanating from a Borg Cube. ;)

[Alex]

@ Oberon : :D

[August]

I'd be curious to know how long a battery would last in one of those gizmos with all that movement.

[Skybird]

I'd be curious to know how long a battery would last in one of those gizmos with all that movement.
No batteries, I read.

[August]

No batteries, I read.

Wow! :o Wind up or self winding?

[Skybird]

Wow! :o Wind up or self winding?
Don't know, but the prices are in the four - and I seem to recall: also five - digit range.

The guy said that when he had finished learning the art of making watches, he was bored with the Swiss conventional designs, and so he started with what he is designing now. He was 22 years then.

[MH]

I don't like.
It's too flashy and "stylish" but looks like nice gadget.
Besides don't wear watches since invention of cellphone clock.

[Rhodes]

I knew this ones:
http://www.tokyoflash.com/pt/watches/1/

Like a few models, the simpler and more "normal" ones!

"excuse me, do you have the time?" Well, huh....
http://www.tokyoflash.com/pt/watches/kisai/denshoku_silver/ :o

[Reece]

Certainly unusual watches, but not my cuppa tea!!:hmmm:
I'll stick to my Junkers, Tissot etc!!:yep:

[Skybird]

http://www.iwc.com/en-us/collection/siderale/IW504101/

German article says it cost 750,000 Swiss Franken: ~854,000 $US.

They produce 5 of these per year.

[Rhodes]

Weird chosen name for the watch...:06::hmmm:

[Reece]

http://www.iwc.com/en-us/collection/siderale/IW504101/

German article says it cost 750,000 Swiss Franken: ~854,000 $US.

They produce 5 of these per year.
I'd be too scared to wear it, IWC does make some nice watches though!:up:

[gimpy117]

http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/borg.jpg

"We are the Borg. At the third stroke the time sponsored by species 8472 will be twenty nineteen and thirty four seconds. Resistance is Futile."

http://morganzilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Jeri-Ryan-7-of-9.jpg

she can assimilate me any day.

[August]

Don't know, but the prices are in the four - and I seem to recall: also five - digit range.

The guy said that when he had finished learning the art of making watches, he was bored with the Swiss conventional designs, and so he started with what he is designing now. He was 22 years then.

That's like two or three digits more than i'd want to pay for a watch. :DL

I tend to be a bit rough on them.

[Skybird]

I'd be too scared to wear it, IWC does make some nice watches though!:up:
Watches of that price range hardly are meant to be worn, they are an investment, or a billionaire's collecting hobby. That's why that watch described is delivered in a case with in-build auto-winder.

Personally I have a quite classically designed watch that costed back then 170 Euros, which imo already is far too much for just a watch. I only bought it several years ago because of the looks, I loved it, dark blue and gold and golden-shimmering grey titanium. But all watches I owned before were of the extremely cheap lowest price segment, since to me they are just a tool with an inbuild automatism (I do not see them as measuring devices, because they measure nothing). If you can get that for 10 Euros, then why spending 500?

[Reece]

Watches of that price range hardly are meant to be worn, they are an investment, or a billionaire's collecting hobby. That's why that watch described is delivered in a case with in-build auto-winder.

Personally I have a quite classically designed watch that costed back then 170 Euros, which imo already is far too much for just a watch. I only bought it several years ago because of the looks, I loved it, dark blue and gold and golden-shimmering grey titanium. But all watches I owned before were of the extremely cheap lowest price segment, since to me they are just a tool with an inbuild automatism (I do not see them as measuring devices, because they measure nothing). If you can get that for 10 Euros, then why spending 500?
I like Swiss movements, manual or automatics and these are generally very expensive, my Junkers is around $400, I have been looking at buying another soon, I would like either a Steinhart or Uhren von UHR, the latter is fairly new on the scene and I am very impressed with the watches and their prices: http://www.uhr.info/
This is the one I would like:
http://www.uhr.info/products/en/Pilot-watches-from-UHR/UHR-551.html

[TarJak]

You could always try something more traditional and more subsim friendly: http://www.uboatwatch.it/home.php

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'll stick with the good old favourite -

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwvVBxEmykXNkEGoOr6GtHJJHkXaDmr cPI7GzOOv2ClMewDRDqsyq6hORK4Q

The sundial :sunny:

[Reece]

You could always try something more traditional and more subsim friendly: http://www.uboatwatch.it/home.php
I have one similar:
http://www.tauchmeisterwatches.com/all-watches/tauchmeister-square-quartz-xl-divingwatch-t0145.html

http://www.tauchmeisterwatches.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/t/0/t0145-gal.jpg