Finalist: Tam Kwok Tung
Sponsoring Company: WINCY HOROLOGICAL LTD.
A unique point of view or eye-catching designs can take a watch from decent to stunning.
The beauty of perspective lets us inspire the secret to create a new design that shed new light on familiar scenes.
Title of Design: TRAVERSE
Finalist: Chan Kar Him
Sponsoring Company: Shenzhen Cheng Hui Wu Jin Shi Ye Co. Limited
The Night Chaser
In 1770, the birth of the first automatic mechanical movement marked a major turning point for the watch industry. In 1923, the introduction of the first automatic mechanical wristwatch had an even more profound impact on the history of watches. Today, we have a revolutionary watch product - "TRAVERSE".
Through the use of a fully transparent case and a "horizontal assembly" method, the craftsmanship of the watch movement can be better displayed, while also enhancing the watch's aesthetics. As a result, " TRAVERSE " is not only a milestone in the history of watches but also a pinnacle of watchmaking craftsmanship
Finalist: Heromex Watch Company Limited
The watch inspiration from Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, using basic shapes and primary colors to create an abstract composition that deconstructs the essence of the world. The dial features radiating black lines, complemented by scattered color blocks and a skeleton movement, expressing the aesthetics of perspective. The modern and minimalist style of the watch case, along with the hour and minute hands designed to match the dial, combined with various luminescent colors, allows for an abstract spatial representation even in the dark.
Title of Design: Chromosome
Finalist: Wong Ting Bong
Sponsoring Company: Youngs Watch Co Ltd, Po Fai Precision Co Ltd
Chromosome watch is inspired by the beauty and complexity of human genetics, exploring the unique shapes and arrangements that make up our genetic code.
Create a watch that celebrates the complexity of our DNA and helps people feel a deeper connection to their own biology. It is designed to be unique and eye-catching
accessory while also providing a functional and practical way to keep track of time.
Title of Design: Flawless
Finalist: Yip Tsz Yan
Sponsoring Company: Ting Fung International Co., Limited
Watch design composed of light-transmitting materials allowing a mixture of different colors and texture, to set the visual experience apart from the ordinary.
Clarity is one of the criteria used in gemology to determine the beauty and quality of diamonds. The highest grade and extraordinary diamonds are flawless. Since blemishes block light from passing through the diamond, it loses part of its sparkle. Inclusions can also make a diamond brittle. Flawless signifies the beauty of perspective and is perfect and priceless.
The beauty of diamonds and skeleton movement can be appreciated from every perspective with the high-transparent crystal casing. The diamond-paved rotor rotates while walking and looks stunning even viewed from the top and side. To complete the beauty of perspective, the brilliance and luminosity of the diamond design alternatively shine in various circumstances, whether under the spotlight or in the dark. Flawless exclusive for the perfect one.
Title of Design: Cuckoo
Finalist: Li Hing Yeung， Yik Siu Fun
Sponsoring Company: UNDONE
Cuckoo means “peace” and “happiness”. Good news comes to the world after covid, just like cuckoo bringing us happiness. Cuckoo incorporates design elements like Sapphire crystal watch case, stained glass dial and skeletonized movement to show the beauty of light and color transmission. Cuckoo flies to every corner of the world, and brings everyone peace and happiness with her songs, overcoming the boundaries of space and time with light.
Finalist: Yeung Ka Kin
Sponsoring Company: Atmoz Watch Limited
In the flowing river, like the passage of time, a pair of Koi chase and play among the lotus leaves, splashing water into 12 hour markers. The patterns on the fish's body change constantly with day and night, creating a picturesque scene of a lotus pond.
The rich layering, transparent and colorful craftsmanship provide visual interest to the time-reading experience.
The name "KAWARU 変わる" precisely interprets the artistic conception of transformation and change.
Finalist: La Deon Watch International Company Limited
The watch draws inspiration from the metallic structure of the Eiffel Tower, blending classical and engineering aesthetics in a marvelous union. The intricate openwork dial and detailed case design embody the architectural beauty of the tower, evoking a sense of symmetry and balance. The glass casing beneath the bezel accentuates the beauty of perspective, recreating the view from the tower's base where light streams through the steel lattice, creating a fascinating perspective effect that transports you into an abstract painting-like world.
Finalist: Heromex Holdings Company Limited
A small hole in the "kaleidoscope" gives you unlimited imagination and a broad visual space. The design concept of FLORASCOPE uses the three-dimensional visual space effect of kaleidoscope, intertwined with the lines of petals, presenting a delicate and elegant kaleidoscope watch. When you adjust the time on the watch, the two sets of petal gears rotate in opposite directions at the same time, forming different petal patterns, as if bringing you into a magical visual world. The ever-changing and evolving petal motifs symbolize different times and experiences. Through this FLORASCOPE, we can see the changes of all things and feel the beautiful vitality bloomed by the rotating petals.
Finalist: Whitehole Design Limited
The Orbit Watch is a sustainable timepiece, the design of which is based on the most fundamental rhythm in the universe: the Earth's daily journey around the sun.
The design of the watch is a series of concentric rings like our solar system. At the center is the sun, a solar cell that powers the product, surrounded by a recycled glass display. This display shows the time through a thin strip radiating from the center to indicate the minutes, while a small circle represents a planet orbiting the sun to indicate the hour. The bezel's periphery houses the "Orbital Visual Communicator," an element containing a "pulsing comet" that travels the circumference of the watch to count each second.
Recycled aluminum bezels house the glass elements giving the watch an elegant, stately look.
A single toggle lever can be used to change the display from the default time mode to “earthly” information, such as air quality and GPS location, “Human information” such as heart rate can also be accessed. When other
modes are displayed, the “Orbital Visual Communicator” changes to highlight the relevant information.
One unique feature of the watch is the organic design language. Unlike many timepieces with flat displays and surfaces, the Orbit Watch's display and the surrounding elements are three-dimensional.
Title of Design: TANZZLE
Finalist: Wong Yin Yeung
School: Youth College International
The physical separation of human beings stemming from the social distancing policies and quarantines during the pandemic has given rise to a weaker bond between human beings.
While games are believed to be the key to narrow social distances, the foldable design of the Tanzzle integrates playfulness and timepiece perfectly, making it a portable Tangram table game on top of telling time. Despite being simplistic and minimal, The Tanzzle offers various gameplays.
Users can engage in exciting time-limited competitions and explore their creativity with friends anytime, anywhere, as they build different graphics within a limited time. The Tanzzle comes in a range of styles and colours. Whether it's vibrant colours or sophisticated styles, they are both equally stylish and playful.
Finalist: Pui Hong Yiu
School: School for Higher and Professional Education (DILWL)
How can a game be integrated with a watch? The answer is to put a maze to the back of the watch! Start the timer and complete the game in the shortest time. Keep challenging your best record!
The yellow and black square case is like a small-scale arcade. The dial recreates the scenario of the classic game 'Pac-man'. With some of the 'food' moving between in the double-glazed glass, it is still a playful watch on your wrist. This is a practical and fun watch that demonstrates the 'work hard, play hard' and ‘challenge yourself’ attitude of life.
Finalist: Kwong Wai Yin
School: Hong Kong Design Institute
This watch is inspired by the clip doll machine. I think clipping dolls is a very challenging game. In my design, the shape of the watch case is a coin. In this game, every coin represents an opportunity for you to get what you want. The coin-shaped watch case is fastened with a catch-type clasp, implying to seize every opportunity.
Finalist: Chow Sze Ting
School: Hong Kong Design Institute
This watch design I used the Japanese Rabbit Shrine as the theme. The Rabbit Shrine is a place that brings happiness and good luck to girls.
Even if it is far away, I hope that by wearing this watch, I can feel that blessing
Finalist: Lee Kwan Ho
School: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
1970's Air Supply
The design concept of the watch comes from arcade games in the 1970s, when technology began to flourish. People are full of fantasies about the unknown, especially space. This watch incorporates a modern LED electronic display, and also retains the physical hour hand and minute hand. The design reconsiders the user interface and adds game elements to the watch. It reinterprets the gaming trend of the 70s in a modern way.
Finalist: Fok Hay Man Hayley
School: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
This watch is designed to combine a watch with a spinning top, creating a unique and interesting product. It is not only a watch with regular functions but can also transform into a spinning top toy, bringing users more surprises.
When the user pulls the crown, the bezel will automatically start to rotate while popping out to become a spinning top. The watch face uses a simpler design with hour, minute, and second hands expressed in a track-like form, echoing the spinning element of the top.
This watch design is inspired by people's love for spinning top toys. The spinning top is an ancient traditional toy, and this product is both practical and entertaining, satisfying users' demands for a time tool while also providing them with fun
Finalist: Yu Ka Ki
School: Hong Kong Design Institute
In everyone's childhood, there will always be a special and impressive memory object, and even if these things have lost their best state in the past, they only rely on their appearance and the sound of memories to recall the past. , this is the music box and clock, my memories.
Finalist: Yu Wing Yiu
School: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
The design inspiration for T. Maze comes from the maze game, an ancient and popular game that requires players to find the exit in a maze.
The design of this watch aims to bring the fun and challenge of the maze game into a fashionable accessory, allowing users to take a break from their busy daily lives, relax, and enjoy the game, for example, during their commute on public transportation.
The design feature of this watch is the inclusion of a maze pattern on the watch face.
The maze is composed of the hour and minute discs, which rotate continuously to change the layout of the maze.
Users need to move the golden ball from the starting point to the end point on the edge of the watch face to complete the game.
This design allows users to solve the maze puzzle during leisure time, such as while waiting for friends or commuting on public transportation, adding entertainment and challenge to their daily routine.
Overall, T. Maze is a unique and fun accessory that combines ancient game elements with modern design, bringing users a new fashion experience.
Finalist: To Martin Kwong Chak
School: Youth College International
PECE draws inspiration from the tangram and revolves around the central idea of perspective.
The unique design of PECE features inward-pointing needles, symbolizing introspection. It suggests that within ourselves, we may already possess all the necessary tools to overcome obstacles, and what we truly need is a fresh perspective.
PECE serves as a reminder to approach our day-to-day tasks with a new angle. It encourages us to consider different viewpoints and embrace a mindset of exploration and innovation. By doing so, we can discover new solutions and uncover hidden possibilities.
Let PECE be a visual representation that sparks our awareness of perspective and encourages us to seek new ways of thinking and approaching challenges.
Finalist: Erly Amethya Kartono
School: Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
The Trone is a collection of timepieces inspired by Medieval England, where Trone or Thrones refer to the royal seat of power, authority, and command. The Middle Ages were marked by numerous conflicts between families and kingdoms, including the War of the Roses that inspired the Game of Thrones series. The collection's forms, materials, and details are designed to reflect the power dynamics and hierarchy of that time.
The collection includes two designs: a pendant watch and a wristwatch. The first piece, named Luthera, means "army of the people." The second piece, Alce, derives its title from the Latin word for power on the battlefield.
The base material is mainly steel, which was the primary material of the army and weaponry in Medieval England. However, stainless steel is chosen for this design due to its corrosion resistant properties. Other important materials used in the collection are gold-plated metal, blue stained-glass, and red crystals.