The Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator from 1927 can be seen as one of the first wrist worn navigation gadgets. The impressive gadget contains a paper roll with card material printed on. Via the knobs on each side the wearer can display the segment of the map he currently needs.

Jean Dunand desgined with the Shabaka a very unique timepiece. The Shabaka combines a minute-repeater on cathedral gongs plus an instantaneous perpetual calendar with a unique display of the dates, phases of the moon and leap-year cycle, as well as an ingenious state-of-wind indicator.

Omega is heavily involved at the Olympic Games in Beijing this Summer. It is a tradition of Omega to take the time at Olympic games since 1932. To underline their commitment Omega unveiled a very cool Omega Speedmaster chronograph that features 5 counters arranged as Olympic rings. This is apparently the first time a mechanical watch has 5 counters on its dial.

The BaselWorld 2008 is over, so lets look at some more affordable watches. The Swatch Full Blooded Mens Watch is currently the bestselling Men's watch on Amazon.com.

Specifically the Swatch Svck4032g (gold) leads the sales charts. It sells for $135.

De GRISOGONO unveiled the world's first mechanical watch to display time digital and analog with the MECCANICO dG.

The De GRISOGONO MECCANICO dG is extremely complicated and consists of 651 components. the MECCANICO dG timepiece displays two distinct timezones and two displays.

Luxury watch maker Graham offers a new Graham Chronofighter R.A.C. “Havana Rush” with stainless steel case with 5N red gold bezel and crown.

The Havana color is applied on an azuré treated dial, faceted with big 12 and 6 numerals and square hour markers.

URWERK unveiled their latest audacious creation, the UR-202. In 2006 Urwerk already amazed with the Urwerk 103 and in 2007 it was the time for the Urwerk 210 to shine.
The new UR-202 is highly dramatic and features besides the patented revolving satellite complication the innovative new winding system regulated by compressed air.

Diesel unveiled new cool watches for 2008. The line-up of the Diesel watches include the futuristic styled DZ7091 (photo).When a button is pushed on the Diesel DZ7091, the time appears from behind a mirror display. Following right on time is the word Diesel. The scrolling message is programmable for up to 20 characters.

Tag Heuer released details about their first mobile phone. The Tag Heuer Meridiist cell phone will be launching in September reports I4U NEWS.

We reported about the first Rumors of a Tag Heuer mobile phone back in January of 2007.

The World's largest watch trade-show BaselWorld came to a close again. As reported despite world-wide financial turbulences and economic down-turn in some parts of the world, the BaselWorld 2008 broke again its visitor record. 106,800 visitors descended onto Basel to see the newest watches and jewelry.

We reported about tons of new wristwatches over the last weeks and by far have not covered all of the new releases - It is an impossible task.

The BaselWorld 2008 comes to a close and it is another record breaking year for the largest watch trade-show in the world.

The 2,087 exhibiting companies from 45 countries were thrilled at the record figure of 106,800 visitors (up 5%) to the show from around the world.

Zenith unveiled the futuristic Port Royal watches at the BaselWorld 2008. It falls for me in the same cool tech inspired design spirit as the RSW Outland and Hamilton Code Breaker, which also have been revealed at the BaselWorld 2008. Do we have a new trend of luxury tech/sci-fi inspired timepieces? If yes, I am all for it.