Not quite the same as their last model, but following the same sleek minimalist design principles, this is Botta Design’s Mondo Dual Timer.
Looks great – love the casing: thin but not silly-thin.
A 40mm piece in stainless steel, as the name suggests it includes a second time-zone function. Strap options include leather and stainless.
Movement is the Swiss quartz Ronda caliber 515. Price is a keen 300 Euros.
Here’s an interesting concept, courtesy of Yanko Design and designer Bor-Ru Huang.
Made to ensure you suck every last piece of juice out of your batteries you can fill each slot with a ‘used’ AA and the clock can tell you when the battery really is dead.
Press a button and those marked ‘red’ are dead!
It’s obviously not that much different than using one battery at a time, but I guess at least you have somewhere to store your old batteries: each one giving a final contribution the cause!
I’m afraid I don’t know much (ok, anything) about Botta Design.
I do know that I like their Uno 24 ‘GMT’ watch though.
A 40mm quartz powered piece, it’s available for pre-order now at a very reasonable $400.
Nothing to shout about mechanically, but the design is very appealing – an inner dual-time bezel (the small hand with the yellow tip marking that time) and an outer main bezel, both with black, grey and orange highlights.
Works well.
It’s available with leather or metal straps.
A quick eBay search reveals a ton of USB watches. Problem is, most of them are terrible cheap junk.
Good to see then this new concept from designers Yoon-jin Gon, Yoon-tae Myoung & Kim Sung Hun via Yanko Design.
Ten minutes charge gives these babies enough power for a weeks watch duty and a quick press of a button reveals the amount of free space remaining.
Good job!
Wow, this is pretty cool. Check out the Damien Hirst piece as part of Panerai’s ‘O’Clock’ exhibition, taking place in Milan until 8th Jan 2012. How many dials?!
I’d love this. Not sure the wife would be quite so thrilled though ;-)
Read on for the full press release.
[Press Release] MILAN, Italy, October 2011 – Officine Panerai presents the “O’Clock – time design, design time” exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum. The exhibition explores the relationship between time and design with works from 80 international designers and artists. The exhibition is curated by Silvana Annicchiarico and Jan van Rossem, with a special 8-timepiece installation by Patricia Urquiola entitled, “I mondi di Officine Panerai” (The Worlds of Officine Panerai).
On the occasion of the exhibition, British artist Damien Hirst is premiering two works, made using the spin painting technique and using dials from Panerai watches and household gloss on canvas: Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting and Beautiful Fractional Sunflower Panerai Painting.
“I love Panerai”, declared the British artist. “The watches are timeless and I made this spin painting using black Panerai watch faces without hands in the pattern of the seeds in the head of a sunflower – I hope the painting makes you think, we are here for a good time, not a long time.”
Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting and Beautiful Fractional Sunflower Panerai Painting are a collaboration between Officine Panerai and Damien Hirst who, on several occasions in the past, has included Panerai watches in his works; a Panerai watch is painted on a table next to medicines and a skull in “Skull with Watch” from 2005 and is physically present in the installations “The Tranquility of Solitude (for George Dyer)” (2006), and “Killing Time” (2008).
Visitor Information
O’Clock
time design, design time
(until 8 January 2012)
Milan Triennale Museum
6 Viale Emilio Alemagna
20121 Milan, Italy
Tuesday – Sunday 10:30a – 10:30p
Thursday – Friday 10:30a – 11:00p
Credits
Studio Sovrappensiero, Scented Time, 2008. Photo by Emanuele Zamponi
Patricia Urquiola, “I mondi di Officine Panerai” (The Worlds of Officine Panerai), 2011. Photo by Fabrizio Marchesi
Damien Hirst, “Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting”, 2011. © 2011 Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved DACS. Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates
Damien Hirst, “Beautiful Fractional Sunflower Panerai Painting”, 2011. © 2011 Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved DACS. Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates
Hmm. I’m normally a bit of a fan of Porsche Design watches, but not sure about this one.
What do you think?
This is the P6620 Dashboard Chronograph.
It’s a 44mm piece in black PVD titanium.
It has an AR-coated sapphire crystal, a sapphire display back, and is water resistant to 100 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic ETA caliber Valjoux 7753 with 25 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 48 hours.
It features an energy optimised Porsche Design rotor.
We haven’t had a Yanko Design concept around here for a while, so about this one – the ‘Smile Alarm Clock’?
Definitely not a product for those of us non-morning people: to turn off the alarm you need to present it with a smile.
I guess it definitely would force you to wake up!
Credit to the designers of this one – Kim Jungwoo, Ju Yongjun, Lee Jongmoo & Kim Taehwan.
Back in the day – 1978 to be exact - Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (yep, him) created a watch/compass: the WompAss.
Ok, so the last part of that statement may not be entirely true, but the watch definitely was and now 33 years later Porsche Design have issued a homage in the form of the P6520.
The P 6520 Compass Watch comes in two parts: the upper part is a three-hand watch. The lower part of the watch opens to reveal a liquid compass that can be easily removed. The watch is available with a compass for both the Northern as well as the Southern hemisphere. In order to find one’s bearings with this instrument, a scratch-resistant mirror has been installed on the rear of the watch part and on top of the compass. When opened, the two mirrors click into place at 45 degrees.
42mm in size, the case is black PVD titanium. The crystal is AR-coated sapphire and the watch is water resistant to 50 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Sellita caliber SW300 with 25 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 42 hours.
Love it!
When close enough is good enough, this Mhin (~) concept from designer James Tobin courtesy of Yanko Design might be just the thing.
Mhin is made from ceramic (body), rubber and metal (‘hands’).
Watch the video below to see this in action:
Love this concept from Yanko Design and designer Julien Molse.
Called the Eole Wind Turbine, this simple idea has the wearer powering the display by blowing on the watch face.
The turbine spins and powers up the dial.
Not supremely practical (and be prepared to be wiping plenty of spit from your watch!) but a very cool idea.
Check out the video mockup below:
