Can you help identify this watch?

April 15, 2010 3:01 PM

What watch brand is this? (Black, clean, minimal design. Red dot on the face)

I saw someone wearing this watch on an elevator the other day. It completely caught my eye but I was too shy to ask the brand of the watch or anything like that. I made a little sketch of what the face looked like here.

Any help would be great! I looked thru the Nixon brand website (bc that's what I thought it was originally) but I didn't see the same.

posted by herebedragons to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (13 answers total)

Looks almost like a Movado, except that the dot is at 12 o'clock and is either silver or brass.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 3:10 PM on April 15, 2010

Looks kind of like this Jacob Jensen Clear Hands Watch.
posted by pb at 3:11 PM on April 15, 2010

There's also Mondaine.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 3:12 PM on April 15, 2010 [1 favorite]

Was it perhaps the Equilibrium? It says "Buy me, wear me to an Interpol concert!"
posted by adipocere at 3:15 PM on April 15, 2010

Zodiak Astrographic?
posted by Acacia at 3:18 PM on April 15, 2010

My first thought was an Alessi watch (such as their tanto x cambiare), but their watches lack the red dot.

The red dot could be a solid feature on the black face, or it could be on the end of the sweeping minute hand.
posted by ericb at 3:27 PM on April 15, 2010

Also came here to say Mondaine, but not the one that was linked above. Their most iconic design has a large red circle on the second hand, and they offer a version with a black face.

Link.
posted by shadow vector at 3:30 PM on April 15, 2010

...on the end of the sweeping minute hand.

*sweeping second hand* -- as per shadow vector.
posted by ericb at 3:32 PM on April 15, 2010

I swear I saw this watch in a Flax art store catalog back in the 1990s. Alas, they do not seem to have an online catalog.

A lot of browsing hasn't quite brought it up. I got close with some Alessi models, but not quite.
posted by Weighted Companion Cube at 3:32 PM on April 15, 2010

Along the lines of a Mondaine, there's also Ollech & Waj's Pilot 3095 with a red dot on the end of second hand.
posted by ericb at 3:36 PM on April 15, 2010

You sure it wasn't a Nixon?
posted by nzero at 5:01 PM on April 15, 2010

What kind of wristband did it have? Was it metal, leather, or some other material? What color was the wristband?

My first thought is that it was a Swatch, second was that it's something from the MOMA store. Knowing that watch designs are constantly changing, there might be a chance that it is an older design that you can't really find in stores now.
posted by jabberjaw at 5:45 PM on April 15, 2010

I'm thirding Mondaine. (watch hound here), and I think your placement of the red dot would indicate that it is at the end of one of the hands.
posted by lonemantis at 6:06 AM on April 16, 2010