After trawling the net, here are 5 beautiful  luxury designer watches which Watch Superstar think will really pave the way for future watch design!

1)  Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti 370

This stunningly obscure watch was created by Parmigiana Fleurier to commemorate the release of Bugatti’s incredible Veyron car.  The appearance of the 370 watch was designed to parallel the styling of the Veyron’s engine.  The face can be easily viewed thanks to the cylindrial design whilst the movement is easily accessible.  This watch is highly exclusive as there are only 150 lucky recipients each year!

2)  Maître du Temps Chapter One

The Maître du Temps Chapter One is a ’super brand’ watch, created by three of the world’s top watch designers all of whom have worked for some of the most prominent companies in Switzerland.  This spectacular watch looks hugely futuristic whilst maintaining a certain retro look and feel.  It features a manual wind mechanical movement, one minute tourbillon and a retrograde GMR indicator.  Most worthy of your attention are the attractive rolling bars at the top and bottom of the case.  The bottom roller displays the day whilst the top roller (which is so precise that Maître du Temps holds a patent on it) displays the gradual transition from day to night.

3)  Pita Barcelona Oceana

The record for the deepest diving watch is held by the small spanish firm, Pita Barcelona.  Usable at a staggering depth of 5000 metres, the Oceana has a truly innovative case design and some of the most durable construction that you will find in any watch today.  The case has no winding crown, nor does it have a back cover as these are the 2 most common areas where the watertight seal of a watch is broken.  These are even more exclusive than the Bugatti watch as just 80 are made each year!

4)  Armin Strom Blue Chip Skeleton

The tiny company of Armin Strom employs less than 20 people across all of it’s 16 departments yet despite this then have managed to open a cutting edge manufacturing facility based in Biel.  Unusually for such a small company they are on the verge of producing a completely in-house watch - an achievement that can only usually be afforded by much larger firms.  The exquisite movement is hand decorated to such a high level of quality as to be unmatched by any other watch in it’s price bracket.

5)  The Urwerk 202

This is quite possibly our favourite one on this list.  The Urwerk 202 was released just over a year ago and looks so awesome, menacing and futuristic.  This watch was the first to integrate fluid dynamics into a watch’s movement.  Each of the three gauges extend and retract to point to the appropriate time whilst the winding is regulated by two small turbines seen through the back of the case.  All this sounds massively complicated but all we know is - we want one.

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