Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Valentine’s Day Present Ideas…
We’ve been shopping. Christmas almost wiped us out of our vintage stock (no complaints there!) but we’ve since picked up lots of lovely little numbers from the watch fairs we visit around the UK. Many would make a lovely Valentine’s day present. First up, this lovely patinated Royce vintage watch from Switzerland. A really elegant […]
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Funky Vintage Smith’s Watch
This Smith’s Watch shows how the UK embraced modernity in the late sixties. The lozenge-shaped case is a cool matt-finish gold-tone and very chunky. It has great detailing including applied hour markers and the quarter-seconds marked around the edge of the dial. Smith’s was one of the pre-eminent engineering companies in the UK in the […]
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An American Golden Oldie
Our favourite vintage watches have something unusual about them – something that makes you think you’ll never see another quite like it. That’s how we feel about this gorgeous Wittnauer vintage watch. The rolled gold case has been beautifully shaped and machined, like an art deco cigarette case.
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We’ve seen the craze for brightly coloured plastic watches shaped like a classic diver’s watch (eg. our Ice Watch collection). Are we about to see this continue with these amazing wooden watches? WeWood, an Italian manufacturer, have managed to make fantastically detailed and durable watches using only natural wood. What’s more, they have sound ecological […]
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Killer Timex 80 Special Editions
There is something of the 1983 Michael Jackson Thriller video about these new Timex 80 special editions. The combination of a retro eighties look with gloss plastic straps, printed with what looks like dripping blood, is pretty inspired. We’ve got them for sale at Watch Me Go in both black and white. For those with less […]
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Pop Hours Watch goes Multicolour
JC de Castelbajac and watch maker ODM have come up with some new takes on the ever-popular Pop Hours, launched at the end of last year. We particularly like the new stripey version with multicoloured links. There’s also a cool new red-white-and-blue version, for patriotic Americans/Brits/French/Italians/Etc to wear their national colours with pride. See the […]
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Famous people who have worn Tissot watches include the singer Carmen Miranda, Elvis Presley, Grace Kelly and Nelson Mandela. James Stewart also wore a Tissot watch in Rear Window. (Not to mention the blatant product placement of a modern Tissot on Angelina Jolie’s wrist in the movies Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.) Now’s your chance to join the Tissot club […]
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So we have a new range of watches from ODM, the innovative watch manufacturer who produced the JC/DC watches for Jean Charles de Castelbajac. This time they’ve paired up with the UK designer Michael Young to create the ‘Reversible’ range. The analogue and digital watches have a different take on the reversible theme, although both […]
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Beam me up, JC/DC
Jean Charles de Castelbajac is one of our favourite fashion designers, especially since he’s developed a taste for creating cool watches. But most recently he’s thrown his hand to set design, with five amazing window displays and a pop-up boutique at London’s famous department store Selfridges. His ‘alienation’ installation in the Wonder Room tells the story […]
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Breitling Art Deco Beauty
As you know, our lovely selection of vintage watches are chosen to be affordable, so we don’t often have the famously expensive watch brands. But we couldn’t resist this gorgeous vintage art deco Breitling ladies’ watch when we found it at a watch fair. It’s really stunning quality and has never been worn – it’s […]
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