Men’s Style

When Swiss watches are mention in a conversation, Tissot is probably the last watch I think of and most of my “watch guy” friends think the same way.  I don’t know why they don’t get the respect, they have been manufacturing fine timepieces since 1853 and they are the official timekeepers of many sporting events and they even sponsor Renault and Lotus Formula 1 teams.

Tissot’s latest watch, the Seastar 1000 Chronograph has made me look more into their watch collection, they do have some nice watches.  The Seastar 1000 is one of those nice watches and it’s a very elegant diver’s watch, the styling reminds me a bit of Oris dive watches for some reason.

The Bovet 7-day Tourbillon is my favorite watch, so far, out of all the watches we’ve posted about that will be auctioned at the Only Watch charity event to be held in Monaco in September 2011.  All the watches that are going to be auctioned off are incredible pieces of workmanship but the Bovet 7-day Tourbillon with Reverse Hand-Fitting is not only an amazing work of art, it also comes with a few very unique features.

The most impressive feature of this watch, apart from the intricately handcrafted front and back, is the fact that it can be worn as a wristwatch, turned into a pocket watch, or even used as a table clock, without using any tools.  The other main feature of the watch is its two dials, there are functioning hour and minute hands on both the front and back of the watch.

I got pretty excited when I first saw the concept Tokyoflash Sudoku Puzzle watch because I used to be obsessed with Sudoku puzzles and I love watches, but it was a huge let down when I saw the puzzles on the watch which are not really challenging.  The idea behind the watch is a game of Sudoku and if you want to know what time it is, you have to solve the puzzle.

At first glance the concept watch seems very complicated and you’d think you have to spend a bit of time solving the puzzle just to see what time it is.  The puzzle is actually quite simple and is only missing a few numbers and those missing numbers just happen to be the numbers that correspond to current time.  So if the time is 12:52:37, those numbers will be missing from the puzzle and you’d have put them in to tell what time it WAS (was because by the time you solve it, the time would have change by at least 30 seconds).  See picture below on how to tell time on the Sudoku puzzle watch.