Competition: five limited-edition timepieces by VOID Watches to be won
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Swedish brand VOID Watches to offer five readers the chance to win a limited-edition timepiece (+ slideshow). More
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"We never set out to be minimal" says Uniform Wares co-founder
Dezeen Watch Store: London brand Uniform Wares is returning to Dezeen Watch Store with an entirely Swiss-made collection. Dezeen spoke to co-founder Patrick Bek about how "plagiarism" of the brand's minimal watch designs led to its recent change in direction (+ slideshow). More
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Jaime Hayón designs monkey-faced Miko watch for Orolog
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón is launching a limited-edition chronograph with a chimp-like face for his watch company Orolog. More
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Blocks launches "world's first modular smartwatch" on Kickstarter
London-based startup Blocks has designed a smartwatch that allows wearers to choose the functionalities they need by clipping on additional modules. More
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Yves Béhar's Edge is an update on a classic Movado watch
Swiss watch brand Movado has collaborated with industrial designer and Fuseproject founder Yves Béhar to reinterpret its iconic Museum Dial timepiece. More
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Samuel Wilkinson designs Mòltair watch for Nomad
London Design Festival 2015: London designer Samuel Wilkinson has collaborated with new Scottish watch brand Nomad to release his first timepiece (+ slideshow). More
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Apple and Hermès unveil Apple Watch collection with handcrafted leather straps
Apple has created a collection of Apple Watch designs in collaboration with Hermès, featuring a handcrafted leather strap produced by the Paris fashion brand (+ slideshow). More
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Apple Watch "fails to excite" and is "a bit underwhelming" say designers
In April, Apple courted the design world by presenting the Apple Watch at a pavilion in Milan and holding a glamorous dinner for leading designers. So what do designers think of the product now – and why are so few of them wearing it? Dezeen investigates. More
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Tokujin Yoshioka's V watch for Issey Miyake is a rippled metal bracelet
Stripy reflections are created by indentations in the metal strap of Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's watch for Issey Miyake. More
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Mondaine launches "first ever Swiss-made smartwatch"
News: Swiss watch brand Mondaine has unveiled a smartwatch with an analogue face – which it says is the first Swiss watch to combine traditional watchmaking with connected technologies. More
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Pebble Time smartwatch breaks Kickstarter records with $2m funding in one hour
News: a new smartwatch from Pebble that promises seven days of battery life has reached its $500,000 Kickstarter goal in less than 20 minutes. More
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LG targets luxury market with metal smartwatch
News: electronics company LG has unveiled an updated version of its G Watch R smartwatch that is designed to look like a luxury timepiece (+ slideshow). More
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Montblanc introduces luxury smart strap for analogue watches
News: luxury watch brand Montblanc has entered the wearable technology market, choosing to add a device to its straps instead of turning its analogue timepieces into smartwatches. More
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Nendo's second Draftsman watch is based on circular stencils
Japanese studio Nendo has released the second watch in its series of designs that takes graphical cues from architectural drawing tools. More
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Watches
Watches
Eley Kishimoto and Fossil launch watch with a "new way of telling time"
Dezeen Watch Store: London fashion studio Eley Kishimoto and American clothing brand Fossil have released Retro Timer – a watch influenced by designs from the 1950s that includes an unusual timekeeping mechanism (+ movie). More
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Will.i.am launches Puls smart "cuff" with special editions by Zaha Hadid
News: the Puls smartwatch by music producer Will.i.am is due to go on sale in the USA and UK later this year, featuring special edition designs created by architect Zaha Hadid. More
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Designers react to the Apple Watch
Leading designers have shared their thoughts on the Apple Watch with Dezeen Watch Store, with responses ranging from "a great design" to "not something I desire to wear". More
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"We set out to create the best watch in the world" says Apple's Tim Cook
News: Apple has finally launched its eagerly anticipated Apple Watch, with a purely digital square face, interchangeable straps and a sapphire screen (+ slideshow). More
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Eight of the best (and worst) iWatch concept guesses
As anticipation of Apple's smartwatch launch reaches fever pitch, we've rounded up eight of the best, worst and funniest examples of what the iWatch probably won't look like. More
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Michael Young relaunches PXR-5 watch that caused "queues blocking the corridors"
Dezeen Watch Store: industrial designer Michael Young has launched an updated version of his iconic PXR-5 digital watch exclusively at Dezeen Watch Store. In this movie he explains how, 10 years on, he was still receiving regular requests to buy it. More
