• Hublot launched a very “Tron”-looking Gummi Bang watch (top left). It’s an amazingly cool rubber model with a tourbillon entirely covered with a grid, which also appears on the bezel, the band, the case and the dial. It was weirdly reminiscent of the avant-garde English designer Gareth Pugh.
• Rado, the company that is collaborating with the English designer Jasper Morrison, introduced the R5.5 (top right). It’s quite a beauty, constructed from Rado’s signature durable ceramic but with a dark matte finish. The square case has rounded edges and a gradually reducing band that gives it space-age sleekness. It will be available stateside in 2010.
• DeGrisogono countered with the Fuso Quadrato in pink gold with a black titanium dial, featuring a “Moonraker”-like spiral “space hatch” (bottom left) that opens and closes at the press of a dial to reveal the dual time zone function (bottom right). By the way: pink, gold and black was a great combination that popped up quite a bit in Basel.
Maybe with all this focus on the cosmos, the watchmaking industry is trying to show us the way to a more stellar future?
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