Attractive timepieces

Independent watchmakers are stealing a march over corporate brands with the affluent increasingly opting for their attractive timepieces
Curated By: Salil Panchal
Published: Nov 9, 2015
Attractive timepieces
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  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
  • Attractive timepieces
De Bethune
Dream Watch DW5
Why you need it:
This watch combines artistic skills, innovation and creativity. De Bethune unveiled what they called an “artistic wrist sculpture”, which comes in the form of a smoothly curved titanium timepiece. Some experts suggest the DW5 could have found its inspiration from a miniature spaceship similar to the one seen in Disney’s 1986 movie Flight of the Navigator. With a width of just 1.9 inches and length of 1.5 inches, it is compact, but there is reduced space to display the time. Denis Flageollet and Italian designer David Zanetta established De Bethune in 2002, decades after creating watches for others