Here is a (growing) comprehensive list of all the one-of-a-kind watches made and donated by brands to the 2011 edition of the Only Watch charity auction to be held in Monaco in September. As of writing there are 34 participating Only Watch 2011 brands that will offer a piece for auction. The below list will be updated as new information comes in. The names of the piece are under the image of that respective piece.
Celsius X VI II LeDIX GMT Big Date Mobile Phone Only Watch 2011
Breguet Maestro Only Watch 2011
Ikepod Hourglass Only Watch 2011
Bell & Ross Casino Roulette Radar
Romain Jerome Rock the Rock DNA
Zenith El Primero Captain Chronograph and Pilot lefty watch set
Hublot 4000M Carbon Diver (Oceanographic 4000) Only Watch 2011
Tag Heuer Monaco Mikrograph
Ulysse Nardin Freak Diavolo Only Watch 2011
Piaget Altiplano Only Watch 2011
Glashutte Original Senator Chronometer Only Watch 2011
DeBethune Only Watch 2011
Corum Golden Bridge Automatic Only Watch 2011
Patek Philippe Ref. 3939 Tourbillon Minute Repeater Only Watch 2011
DeWitt Only Watch 2011
Chopard LUC Engine Tourbillon Only Watch 2011
Richard Mille RM 027 Rafael Nadal Only Watch 2011
Bernhard Lederer Gagarin Tourbillon Only Watch 2011
Audemars Piguet Only Watch 2011
MB&F HM4 Only Watch 2011
Urwerk UR-103 “Phoenix” watch hand engraved by Jean-Vincent Huguenin
Bovet 7-day Tourbillon with reversed hand-fitting “Dragon & Phoenix” watch
Louis Vuitton Tambour Diver Chronograph Only Watch 2011
Van Cleef & Arpels Jules Verne From The Earth To The Moon Poetic Complication Only Watch 2011
Jaquet Droz Petite Heure Minute Only Watch 2011
Montblanc Vintage Pulsographe 39mm Piece Unique Only Watch 2011
Frederique Constant Piece Unique Family of Watches
Blancpain Villeret Grande Decoration Only Watch 2011
Vacheron Constantin Metiers d’Art Perspectives d’Art “Dove” for Only Watch 2011
Breguet Réveil Musical Only Watch 2011
Harry Winston Midnight GMT Tourbillon Only Watch 2011
One reason things such as tourbillons are so popular is that they not only display the mechanical complexity that we so enjoy watching, but they’re highly animated. Just finding a means to show the balance wheel from the dial side is another way many watchmakers have additional mechanical glow to a watch. Even only a sweeping seconds hand will do – animation of any sort adds a lot to a watch face. That’s the reason why the windshield-wiper seconds, with its stabbing and jerkily retracting movement every thirty seconds, is worth all of the obviously necessary additional engineering. That combined with all the DeWitt Academia Skeleton’s “openwork” movement provides a good deal of horological entertainment for a cost of $85,800. Lately, while at Geneva, Switzerland, I had the chance to visit “manufacture DeWitt,” an impressive and resolutely market high-end watch manufacturer who produces nearly everything themselves and can be owned by Mr. Jerome DeWitt – whose family tree contains Napoleon Bonaparte. Jerome himself is a humble guy whose main passions in life involve mechanical items. Among the most impressive parts of the manufacture is his own private collection of ancient machines (his “mechanical museum,” if you will). Jerome has the spirit of an artist who’s deeply interested in mechanics and also the visual party. It is really his wife – who’s now in a directorial role at the company – which brought DeWitt back from a number of its fiscal troubles. Together, the energetic DeWitt duo has fortified the brand to make it the company of now that I actually admire – a unique brand, whose timepieces all have something interesting to say (regardless of whether or not you enjoy that statement).
Chanel J12 Marine Only Watch 2011
Maurice Lacroix Masterpiece Roue Carrée Seconde Only Watch 2011
Girard-Perregaux ww.tc Only Watch 2011
Vulcain Anniversary Heart Only Watch 2011
Cyrus Klepcys Only Watch 2011
Chaumet Dandy Arty Open Face Only Watch 2011
Laurent Ferrier Galet Micro-Rotor for Only Watch 2011
Franck Muller Crazy Hours Totally Switzerland Only Watch 2011
deLaCour Mourinho City Ego for Only Watch 2011
Hermès Arceau Le Temps Suspendu for Only Watch 2011
