Watches

Luxury watchmakers Maximilian Büsser & Friends (MB&F) create some of the most artistic watches in the industry: we have covered a lot of their insanely beautiful and unusual watches (click here).  Their latest  watch is the MB&F Rebel. Part of their Horological Machine No. 3 line, it was created in partnership with Laurent Picciotto.

The MB&F HM3 Rebel is yet another limited edition piece, and only 18 will be produced.  The “R” in the ReBel stands for right hand and the “B” for black.  What does that mean?  The watch is to be worn on the right wrist (lefty) and the case is made out of black PVD-treated white gold.

Unlike other watches that will be auctioned at the 2011 Only Watch charity event, the Celsius X VI II can’t be worn on the wrist, instead, it’ll feel right at home in your pocket but it isn’t a traditional pocket watch.  The timepiece combines what used to be a modern gadget, a hundred years ago, with one of the most popular gadgets of the current time, a cell phone.

The Celsius X VI II watch phone was released earlier in the year (priced at approximately $300,000) but the one that will be presented at the charity event is a one-off with a unique date feature.  The date window showcases the date in the middle of the phone and at first glance, the date seems to come out of nowhere thanks to some visual trickery; the glass used to display magnifies the top part of the date wheel giving the illusion that there is no wheel.

2012 marks the 120^th anniversary of watch production for the American watch maker Hamilton, the company was founded way back in 1892.  To mark this special occasion, the watch manufacturer will release a limited edition Hamilton Khaki Navy Pioneer watch which takes its design inspirations from the 1940’s marine chronometer watches that made Hamilton famous.

The Hamilton Khaki Navy Pioneer watch comes in a rather large 46.5 mm stainless steel case and it comes with a Hevea wood presentation box that double as a desktop clock, which is a pretty cool feature and could be the reason they made the watch a bit bigger.  The watch has a simple dial with Arabic numeral hour and minute markers and comes with two large blue hands.  The seconds are placed in a sub-dial between the 5 and 7 o’clock position with a small blue hand.  The watch face is covered in AR coated sapphire crystal and is attached to a light brown leather strap with stitching.