8.10.2010

Strange Watch, Changeable Enchantment

Watch as one of the major types of fashion collections , but also has its own Variety shape . The early 19th century , there are many with insects, fruit and music styles of watches across the globe, at the time really that fresh . With endless imagination to create watches of wealth , the biggest selling point is shaped watch . Multilateral show off with four-dimensional reverie , creating strange charm of the space , so shaped watch to become collector 's treasure pet .


Wide variety of case

The famous Swiss brand Vacheron Constantin , not only has a long history of 250 years , and in all kinds of watch design also has outstanding performance , so this brand is always a number of award-winning watches . In 1970, at a watch design competition , a Vacheron Constantin pocket watch enamel , with its unique design won the " Award for Innovation . " This is a fun watch , case covered by the three independent form enamel pieces were black , green and blue , and each piece of enamel pieces can be opened . When the case lid open then we will find a silver dial with 6 pointers , three areas were marked out of the time , but each time zone are not the same color scale . Under the original design in appearance , Vacheron Constantin 's watch division selected three independent quartz movement , quartz watch can be seen at the time of the trend, Vacheron Constantin brand new technology will also be applied to the works .

Two years later - June 23, 1972 in Paris , an asymmetric shape of the watch , thanks to its unique and simple design she won the award , as included in the annals of Vacheron Constantin Classic Works 1 . After a separate section of this watch as a watch series , named " 1972 . " In the recently published " 1972 "series of watches , we still can feel the bold avant-garde design concepts - Case of the lines are not parallel to each other both in accordance with the law , instead of using a non-equilateral trapezoid shape .

Various shapes of the watch

Things in nature always design for the case brought many material , whether it is a beautiful plant , or a ferocious animal , in the hands of designer watches have come and go out of unexpected results. Tissot 's "Flower Rose "series will undoubtedly be noticed by many people , the most important reason is the flower -like design , this unique design of the watch on the petals will slowly start to the wearer . When the petals when the flowers will form a noble color oval bud; by turning the surface of the second layer , revealing the Corolla , the absolute level of unique fashion trends for the people close to put together a remarkable style ; completely Rotating bezel to be opened after the third round petals to show in this paragraph exhaustive luxury watch , Tissot 's " flowers " to this fully rendered in front of the wearer . Similarly, the count of designer shapes from peach to get inspired , deduced through the design of perceptual distortion of time personality .

Sometimes in our lives something inadvertently , due to special design methods , can become world famous watches . For example, the new Hermes "Kelly Clochette" watch is the "Kelly" padlock -shaped watch mint , its design features is to hide a small child locked in a leather bag , not in the traditional sense of the watch form , but Kind of reminiscent of the early special-shaped watch . In fact , "Kelly" padlock -shaped watch back in 1975, was created out of adhering to the Princess of Morocco, named after Grace Kelly classic "Kelly" bag of features .

The combination of the watch dial and the drawer is what kind of feeling? Van Cleef & Arpels 's "Secret" watch is a very good answer to this question. Look closely, one side edge of the watch itself an intriguing little hidden drawer , along the crown on the flowers opened , a natural mother of pearl surface immediately show , like a mysterious jewel box tells the secret of time !

Strange case design is also often the creation of an independent watch popular direction , such as Vianney Halter and Thomas Baumgartner , etc. on the good feeling of the space age will bring the real world . The former case is designed to watch the whole circle is divided into four regions , located in the upper right is a , the sub- indicators of timing plate , week display pointer is located at the top left of the small round plate , the bottom left of the display plate Has two pointers of varying lengths , respectively, month and leap year display pointer , and the last is the smallest circular area which shows the calendar , therefore , the traditional dial mode is Vianney Halter 's this works completely broken, but Complex calendar display is also very simple. The latter designed to watch in the closed case in revealing a semi-circular orbit , representing the number of hours of moving slowly in the meantime , like a shuttle between the spacecraft in space , makes memorable .

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