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Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller P Watches - No Sleep Till Nixon! Custom Designed by Mike D Himself!

Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller P Watches - No Sleep Till Nixon! Custom Designed by Mike D Himself!
Who would have thought that a punk band thrown together for its bass player’s 17th birthday party would evolve into one of the most influential and groundbreaking successes of its time? Certainly not the then-teenage Beastie Boys. Yet the band’s 25-year-and-counting career has logged 40 million in sales, two Grammy awards, the MTV Video Vanguard Lifetime Achievement award, four #1 albums; including the first hip hop album ever to top the Billboard 200, the band’s 1986 debut full length, Licensed To Ill, and countless sold out world tours, magazine covers and TV appearances.

As lifelong lovers of everything skate, snow and surf not to mention style icons in there own right it is fitting for Nixon to have The Beastie Boys create a unique interpretation of Nixon's Timeteller P watch available in four color ways which will be sold at select retailers.

Mike D went on to add "I am proud to release this little treasure as a token of my achievement in both the yachting and hip-hop communities. This advanced time piece allows me to navigate the open seas and the open mic".


Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller P Watches - No Sleep Till Nixon! Custom Designed by Mike D Himself!
Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller P Watches - No Sleep Till Nixon! Custom Designed by Mike D Himself!
Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller P Watches - No Sleep Till Nixon! Custom Designed by Mike D Himself!
Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller P Watches - No Sleep Till Nixon! Custom Designed by Mike D Himself!
Beastie Boys Nixon Time Teller P Watches - No Sleep Till Nixon! Custom Designed by Mike D Himself!
Available in September from Watchismo! See the Beastie Boys Nixon Collection Here for this very first sneak peek!


Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)No, not that Woody.

A visual tour of wristwatches made of wood watches from 1590 to 2009.

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)
One of the first wood watches I ever featured at The Watchismo Times, a 1960s Swank, reminiscent of the George Nelson clocks of the time.

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)Also previously featured, the incredibly rare Bronnikov all-wood (and bone) watches of the mid-nineteenth century. Even the movements were made of wood! --> LINK

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)
Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)The wood movement

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)

And reaching as far back as I can, here is a portable sundial made of wood from 1590 which also doubled as a gun powder flask and compass --> LINK


Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)Back in the USSR! This wood cased Raketa watch from an amazing collection of Russian watches --> LINK

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)
LIP
, mostly known for the super-cool watches of the seventies has a very wide array of other unusual watches like this 60's sterling silver bracelet watch with wood dial and curved inlaid wood strips in the bracelet.

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)And some of Richard Arbib's very rare wood dialed Hamilton Electric watches from the 1950s and 60s. Above is the Flight II prototype.

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)The classic design of the Hamilton Ventura also had a prototype with a wood face. Courtesy of Rene Rondeau.

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)And an collection of wood dial Hamilton Sherwood with automatic movements. These did make it to production in the 60s but are quite scarce.

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)More styles of Sherwoods

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)Original Sherwood strap with inlaid wood

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)A vintage Bulova Accutron with wood bezel
(All Accutron Posts-->LINK)

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)An unusual vintage Jowissa wood cased watch

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)The brand new limited edition Quiksilver Ray watch, an eco-friendly concept watch with a case and bracelet made of solid ebony and using a "Green" non-battery automatic mechanical movement.

More about The Ray --> LINK


Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)The Nixon Rotolog, a modern interpretation of the LIP Baschmakoff Jump Hour of the early seventies but now with a interior light and an entire series made with all types of wood including bamboo and teak (shown above)

Nixon Rotolog collection --> LINK

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)One of my favorite modern watches using wood, the Nixon Murf featuring wood veneers cover the top half of the face and two discs for hours and minutes below. Eacy style has a different color light for the dial by pressing the big horizontal crowns. And one of it's truly unique features is the way the time is changed, you unscrew the top crown, and then press down to electrically forward the discs. It looks like a Bang & Olufsen stere turntable!

Nixon Murf collection --> LINK


Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)A pair of swanky ladies watches from the modern brand Vestal utilizing Rosewood, Ebony, and Maple for cases and bracelets.

Vestal Wood Watch collection --> LINK

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)Shooting back up to the higher end of wood watches including the Jaquet Droz above. They have produced watches with all sorts of materials including meteorite.

Time for a Woody - Wood Watches Over Time (1590-2009)Last but not least, Svend Anderson's Eros "Navigation Pleasure" model (below). The one-of-a-kind Eros has marquetry work with four types of wood and a secret 10 moving part erotic automaton on the back of the watch.

Related posts on The Watchismo Times;
Watches made of Bone
Meteorite Watches


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Diamond Skull Nixon Rotolog for Barneys NY

Diamond Skull Nixon Rotolog for Barneys NYYou're not gonna see me spotlight too much Bling here at The Watchismo Times...But this is a bit different. It's the Diamond Rotolog by Nixon. Their retro watch collection that borrows heavily from the 1970s Direct Read/Jump Hour style display (As I write about often here-->Link) and famously for their wood series which feature inlaid bamboo and teak.

Nixon has been featuring skull-print Rotologs exclusively at Barney's New York in recent months but now they stepped it up a carat. These are encrusted with 764 white diamonds and 1,087 black diamonds for the skull pattern, a stainless steel case, Japanese Quartz movement and LED lamp for lighting the spinning disc display.

LINK

Diamond Skull Nixon Rotolog for Barneys NYRotolog Wood Series



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