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Dezeen Watch Store: four men’s watches from the new collection by lifestyle brand Nixon are now available for pre-order at Dezeen Watch Store.

The new collection includes the hardwearing 51-30 Chronograph Leather with a rotating stainless steel bezel, a countdown timer and pushers. Water resistant to 30ATM it is designed to withstand almost any outdoor pursuit.

Designed with everyday wear in mind, The Corporal features a bold, easy-to-read face with distinctive, military-inspired indices. The solid stainless steel case and bezel are topped with a hardened mineral crystal lens and the watch threads onto a leather strap.

The Sentry Leather has a large 42-millimetre face with a date window, applied hour indices and printed second markers. The timepiece is set on a lambskin leather strap and fastens with a stainless steel buckle.

The final watch in our collection is The Mellor. The vintage-inspired design includes a hardwearing stainless steel case, and a 38-millimetre face with contrast indices and custom-moulded hands.

Nixon is an American outdoor lifestyle brand specialising in watches, accessories and audio products. The California-based brand was founded by Andy Laats and Chad DiNenna in 1997. The duo wanted to create durable watches that could be worn during active outdoor pursuits, including skating, surfing and skiing.

Orders can be placed now for despatch week commencing 16 September 2013. Shop the Nixon watch collection now »

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Dezeen Watch Store: Pebble is the first watch by Danish design studio KiBiSi and is now available in four colours at Dezeen Watch Store.

Pebble is the result of a collaboration between Jacob Juul of Danish watch brand Bulbul and KiBiSi. The design includes a distinctive asymmetric face that was inspired by the smooth contours of the pebbles found on Scandinavian beaches.

“Jacob asked us ‘why are all watches round or square?’, KiBiSi’s head of design Lars Larsen told Dezeen, “and we decided to use this question as the starting point for the design.”

He continued: “When you look at the watch the asymmetry is not the first thing that catches your eye. The shape feels familiar and not radical – it’s ‘off’ in a balanced and delicate aesthetic way.”

The timepiece, almost two years in the making, places emphasis on high quality craftsmanship and includes a double-sided Italian leather strap. “We wanted to make the product the brand and focus more on the piece” Lars said. “The watch becomes a piece of contemporary jewellery.”

The dial is complemented by a minimal face and a unique injection-moulded silicone loop. “The loop functions as understated brand information but remains eye-catching,” Lars added. “A traditional leather loop tends to soften and break over time; this solution is long lasting and durable.”

Other features include a stainless-steel case topped with scratch resistant sapphire glass and a Ronda Swiss-made movement with a ten-year battery life.

Entrepreneur Jacob Juul launched Bulbul in Copenhagen this year. The brand name can be translated as nightingale in the Middle East and India, but can also refer to a small songbird with a distinctive mohawk.

Pebble is available at Dezeen Watch Store in four variations for £290.

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Dezeen Watch Store: the new Please watch by British industrial designer Jasper Morrison for fashion brand Issey Miyake is now available at Dezeen Watch Store.

Jasper Morrison’s Please watch celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Issey Miyake’s seminal Pleats Please fashion collection.

The timepiece pays homage to Miyake’s designs with a ridged polyurethane strap and stripes on the face that catch the light in different directions.

Hours are marked with subtly alternating brushed and polished segments round the rim of the stainless-steel case.

It’s fastened with a brushed stainless-steel buckle and is suitable as either a man’s watch or a woman’s watch.

When designing the watch, Morrison used Irving Penn’s iconic 1994 photographs of Miyake’s collection as a starting point. “I visited the 21-21 Design Site Exhibition of Penn’s photos for Miyake and was overwhelmed by how Penn managed to capture the spirit of Miyake’s clothes in his photos,” said Morrison. “I decided to do my best to capture some of that spirit for this new watch.”

Dezeen Watch Store also stocks the W watch by Satoshi Wada for Issey Miyake, inspired by automotive design. See all watches from Issey Miyake »

Based close to Dezeen’s offices in east London, Jasper Morrison is one of the most celebrated British designers. He’s famed for his “Super Normal” approach to product design, sensitively paring back objects to their essentials.

You can buy all of our watches online and you can also visit our watch shop in Stoke Newington, north London – contact us to book an appointment.

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Dezeen Watch Store: in this movie Dezeen filmed in Milan, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders describes the two different sides of the Dressed watch he designed for Alessi, which is available to buy now from Dezeen Watch Store. 

Wanders‘ Dressed watch has an outwardly understated design, but features an embellished decoration on the reverse side of the case that is hidden when the watch is being worn.

“We made these very simple, beautiful watches with an interesting surprise,” Wanders explains. “The design of the watch is pretty straightforward: the band makes a really simple connection to the core of the watch and we kept the dial very simple.”

However, the hour hand of the watch features a decorative “little twist”, Wanders goes on to explain, before turning the watch around to show that “on the back there is a fantastic decoration, which is very hidden.”

Wanders hopes that his design will stand the test of time. “[We made] something that is, I hope, an evergreen, something that lasts forever,” he says. “Because I think that’s what watches are, they are about time.”

Dressed by Marcel Wanders is available to buy on Dezeen Watch Store in black or white for £125 + VAT with free worldwide shipping.

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Dezeen Watch Store: Block Watch is the first timepiece by London designer Tom Dixon and the latest addition to our collection of watches by leading designers and independent brands (+ movie). 

Block features a distinctive square case stamped from a piece of stainless steel or brass and a circular face with etched numerals and markers. The watch’s hour, minute and second hands are powered by a high-quality Swiss movement.

The timepiece is available in either stainless steel or rose gold (plated) with matching mesh straps, or in brass with a chunky brown leather strap.

“I’m trying to produce something with an expressive neutrality,” says Dixon in the movie we filmed at his studio in London. “I tend to try and work out what I can strip out without losing character.”

He continues: “I wanted to make sure that you can tell the time. With all too many contemporary watches you really can’t tell what time it is.”

Dixon goes on to explain that the mesh strap featured on two of the watches refers to his childhood. “It’s got this chain link bracelet, which I guess is a reference to when I was growing up – Kojak, maybe.”

“It’s just the minimal elements that you need to make a watch, all reduced to their bare essentials,” he concludes.

Block by Tom Dixon is available to preorder now on Dezeen Watch Store with free worldwide shipping.

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