10 transparent watches
The watches in this list range in price from the half a million dollar Guy Ellia invisible watch to a $40 Swatch by architect, Renzo Piano. While the Ellia watch is a technical tour de force Piano’s is a much more satisfying design.
Bespoke swiss watch makers use translucent sapphire to hold delicate moving parts, but cheap plastic and electronics can actually be a more practical, elegant, and less willful alternative.
And given that the whole concept of a translucent watch is being non-visible, the inherent ostentation of a $500,000 wristwatch seems like a test case in ridiculous bad design. Vote for your faves.
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The ultimate skeleton watch, the actual plates holding moving parts are made of transparent sapphire.
The very sad thing about these watches are quite how self indulgent the excess becomes. This watch at half a million dollars, although a technical tour de force, is less interesting from a design perspective than Renzo Piano's swatch at less than 1000th of the price.
