Luxury watches: 7 mechanical timepieces with digital displays
WOW delves into the world of digital displays to pick seven timepieces that will make reading time that much easier
-
- A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Minute Repeater in platinum, $616,000
-
- Jules Audemars Openworked Minute Repeater with Jumping Hours and Small Seconds in platinum, CHF410,000
-
- Bell & Ross WW1 Heure Sautante in rose gold, $33,700
-
- Bulgari Octo Retrogradi in steel, $21,700
-
- Monsieur de Chanel in white gold, $51,000
-
- Romain Jerome Subcraft in titanium, $35,000
-
- Ulysses Nardin Grand Deck Marine Tourbillon in white gold
We popularly refer to the hands of time in many everyday events, typically when we want to talk about going back in time to fix something or making a tiresome meeting end quicker. We process these entirely natural set of metaphorical motions largely without thinking about why time even needs to have hands. In truth, since digital quartz watches spread like wildfire upon the wrists of more humans than ever before in the 1970s, time hasn’t needed hands to make sense. Soon, with the proliferation of those pesky handheld computers called mobile phones (our data suggests you are reading this story on one right now), an entire generation will cease to understand and appreciate anything other than digital time.
Well, mechanical watches too have caught the digital bug — digital display that is, as these seven watches show. Ok, some of them still use hands but mainly in unexpected ways or for aesthetic reasons.
This spread was first featured in World of Watches’ (WOW) Festive issue. The WOW team would like to highlight that this spread was incorrectly credited. The digital artist responsible is Zi Wen.
