Dezeen Watch Store will be popping up once again at Clerkenwell Design Week in London over the next three days. Visit us at the Farmiloe Building at 34 St John St where we will have all of our latest watches and a selection of our best-selling collection, including BN0042 by Braun (pictured above).

We will be presenting new watch models, including our Mondaine collection featuring Evo Giant (above), plus we will have some of our most popular watches from NAVA (Plicate by NAVA pictured below), Uniform Wares and Ziiiro.

We will also be offering customers the chance to join our exclusive Dezeen Watch Store Club during Clerkenwell Design Week, where all members get access to our special offer: buy any sale watch and get a second sale watch half price. Visit us to find out more details.

The pop-up shop will run from Tuesday 21 May to Thursday 23 May and will be open from 10am until 9pm each day. You can find us in unit VO10 on the historic Farmiloe Building's first floor. Entry is free but visitors should register first here.

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Dezeen Watch Store: the latest version of Record by architect and designer Achille Castiglioni comes with a striking black face, and both yellow and purple interchangeable leather straps.

Castiglioni designed the Record watch in 2000 for Italian design brand Alessi, making it one of the last products he worked on. He collaborated with Swiss designer and friend Max Hubert for the watch face, with large playful numbers that make it easy to read the time.

Record comes in two sizes, small (30mm case) and medium (36mm case). The small 30mm case is best suited for a female wrist, whilst the medium 36mm case would fit well on both ladies and gentlemen.

You can buy all of our watches online and over the phone on +44 (0)20 7503 7319. You can also visit our watch shop in Stoke Newington, north London - contact us to book an appointment.

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Dezeen Watch Store: new to our collection this week is Evo Giant by Mondaine, a classic timepiece inspired by iconic Swiss railway clocks.

Evo Giant features a large 42-millimetre polished stainless-steel case with a black leather strap that attaches directly to the face without lugs. The size of the face allows the focus to be on the markings and famous red ticker, which resembles the shape of a railways guard’s signalling disc.

Evo Giant is the fourth timepiece in our range of Mondaine watches. The Swiss railway clocks that inspired the collection were designed in 1944 by Zurich-born engineer Hans Hilfiker and have since become a design classic that represent the legendary punctuality of the Swiss rail network.

You can buy all of our watches online and over the phone on +44 (0)20 7503 7319. You can also visit our watch shop in Stoke Newington, north London - contact us to book an appointment.

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News: two European companies have launched rival Android-powered smartwatches at the Baselworld watch fair in Switzerland, bringing voice calls as well as email, video, camera and apps to devices worn on the wrist.

Dutch company Burg and Italian brand I'm both used Baselworld, the world's leading luxury watch fair, as a launchpad for their digital devices.

Burg founder Hermen van den Burg described the reaction to his product as "amazing" and added: "Everyone thinks this is going to change the watch industry".

Burg launched Burg 17 (top image), which runs on the Android 4.0 operating system and features a 1.54 inch screen. The company claims it is the first ever fully-functional Android-powered smartwatch.

The product offers a host of features including a voice recorder, a 2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and GPS. It contains a SIM card, so can be used as an alternative to a mobile phone, and will retail for €389 when it goes on sale in July.

Meanwhile I'm launched I'm Watch (above), which offers similar features to the Burg 17 but lacks a SIM card, so must be paired via Bluetooth with a mobile phone to receive calls and browse the internet.

The product runs on Android-based software called I'm Droid 2, which the company describes as "the world's most advanced smartwatch operating system".

Wrist-mounted devices have been generating a lot of excitement lately, with rumours that Apple is developing an iWatch and the Pebble smartwatch breaking the record for Kickstarter funding last year.

"People are aware of smartwatches because they've heard that Apple is developing one, but when people see we already have a smartwatch with Android and a SIM, they don't believe it," said van den Burg.

He added: "Smartphones are getting bigger and bigger. People are afraid they'll lose or break them. Now you can leave your phone at home."

Users can remove the SIM card from their phone and put it in their smartwatch when they go out, van den Burg said, or buy a second SIM card for their watch.

Van den Burg added: "Android is much easier to use than [Apple's] iOS. Android is what people use around the world".

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Dezeen Watch Store: the most recent addition to our watch collection is Dressed by Marcel Wanders, featuring details and flourishes typical of the Dutch designer's decorative style.

Wanders designed each watch to have two sides to it: one visible and one concealed. The outward watch face has an understated design whilst the reverse side features a secret embellished surface, a hidden detail known only to the wearer.

The watch is available in two colours: black or white. The black-strapped watch comes with a gold ticker and a matching crown. The white watch comes with subtle dotted hour and minute markers, adding an extra detail to the simple face.

The Dressed watch is part of a larger collection of products, including tableware (pictured above) that Wanders has designed for Alessi.

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