Winner: Wong Ting Bong
Sponsoring Companies: Youngs Watch Company Limited, Po Fai Precision Company Limited
As you grip the steering wheel and keep your eyes on the road, the watch on your wrist comes perfectly into view. Its sweeping seconds hand rotates at an astonishing pace, reminding you of the precious value of time. The metallic case exudes an industrial aesthetic, and not a single detail has been tamed. The roar of the engine, the screech of the tyres – this watch bears witness to your unwavering pursuit of speed and limits and encapsulates the essence of your high-octane racing lifestyle.
Title of Design: The time for flowers
Winner: Cheng Pui Ling
This dial tells a story of eternal spring: a deep blue captures the essence of the season, while layers of enamel four-leaf clovers and butterflies create a dreamlike interplay of light and shadow. As the hands move, the leaves unfurl one by one, as if gently caressed by a spring breeze. They gracefully close when the hands return to zero, only to bloom again, never fading away.
Title of Design: ODYSSEY
Winner: Inspo Watches Company Limited
The watch features an innovative dual-dial world time display system, paired with a uniquely designed automatic movement that drives two hemispheric 24-timezone dials in real-time. No matter where you are, a simple adjustment allows you to easily view the local time, truly embodying the concept of staying synchronised and connected with the world.
ODYSSEY is not just a world-timer; it brings the world to life on your wrist, guiding us towards global exploration and embarking on a whole new journey.
Title of Design: CMYK
Finalist: Lee Cheuk Chung
Sponsoring Company: Aision Design Limited
Breaking the traditional notion of fixed-colour watch dials, this design embraces the principles of CMYK (four-colour printing) commonly used in design and printing. It incorporates gradients of cyan (C), magenta (M) and yellow (Y) onto the hour, minute, and second sub-dials, respectively. With each passing minute and second, the colours on the dials dynamically change, infusing a splash of colour to the wearer’s life.
Title of Design: All Time Be Happy
Finalist: Atmoz Watch Limited
The Hong Kong original character “Happymon” hugs your wrist, making sure that you are always happy. Happymon” also aspires to serve as an ambassador of love, spreading the feeling of happiness throughout the entire Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair.
“Happymon” plays in the ball pit, revealing the message “All Time Be Happy” while rotating. His back is the rotor, providing power and establishing a front-to-back design correspondence. The giant wooden box delivers a sense of joy. The hand-drawing on the box adds a distinct touch of originality and artistic flair.
Finalist: Law Tang Kit
Sponsoring Company: Timing Watch (HK) Limited
The Yue Shi Yang Sheng is the world’s first mechanical watch that utilises a mechanical movement to provide health indicators for the wearer^. The watch surpasses the limitation of health features being exclusive to smartwatches. It operates without the need for electricity and can continuously provide health advice to the wearer. By featuring a pulse calculation indicator on the dial, the watch offers self-monitoring and health guidance functions. The integration of traditional Chinese health wisdom into the watch design presents a unique approach to well-being, marking a groundbreaking innovation in the field of horology.
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Finalist: Wong Wai Yip
In the history of modern clocks and watches, the hourglass has rarely been utilised as a design element. This inspired me to incorporate it into watch design, aiming to create new experiences for watch enthusiasts.
This piece features a donut-shaped hollow structure, with 24K gold sand flowing along the inner wall. As the wearer adjusts the time zone, the gold sand slowly recedes, allowing the wearer to appreciate the beauty of time.
Finalist: Li Ka Sing
In today’s fast-paced society, time has become a tool that constantly urges people forward. MINS is a concept watch that tells the time only in minutes. It provides a gentle way of telling time by utilising the play of light and shadow on a matte or transparent minute-hand dial. This approach helps users remain calm, shift their focus away from precise timekeeping and enjoy moments without pressure.
MINS represents a new realm of slow and gentle pace, serving as an accessory that can align with your mood and seamlessly integrate into your lifestyle.
Finalist: GR84U Limited
The Radiance – Follow Me is a revolutionary timepiece that embodies the spirit of “Go Beyond Innovation”. Featuring a mesmerising holographic display, this watch challenges the essence of traditional horology, seamlessly blending cutting-edge technology with visionary design. Through the integration of advanced sensors, the Radiance – Follow Me allows the wearer to engage in a way that fosters a deeper connection with the timepiece.
Title of Design: Liminality
Finalist: Lau Cheuk Lai
School: Creative Secondary School
Organic form, digitally composed.
This design blurs the boundaries between watches and jewellery, integrating AI and cutting-edge manufacturing technologies.
The Liminality discovers transitory forms that translate into practical, innovative applications for quartz watches.
AI and machines lie between, as the liminality.
Title of Design: Celestial Feathered Symphony
Finalist: Lee Kwan Ho
School: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Celestial Feathered Symphony is a peacock-inspired jewellery watch that combines elements of the ethereal and the artistic. It suggests an elegant and harmonious composition, drawing inspiration from the celestial realm and the intricate beauty of feathers. The movement of the pointer evokes imagery of a peacock gracefully dancing amidst a symphony of feathers.
Title of Design: The Watcher
Finalist: Yu Po Kwan
School: Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
The Watcher draws inspiration from the ubiquitous presence of surveillance cameras in our daily lives, symbolising a world under constant observation. Its captivating design, predominantly featuring eyes, reflects multiple layers of meaning. The watch face incorporates a rotating mechanism that signifies the passage of time in the digital age, serving as a poignant reminder that we exist in an era of rapid change. This artistic timepiece encourages us to embrace the fleeting nature of time and seize every moment, motivating us to lead extraordinary lives worth cherishing.
Title of Design: CHRONOMATRIX – 1000
Finalist: Man Tsz Kit
School: Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
The CHRONOMATRIX - 1000 is a fusion of traditional watch mechanics, technological functions and futuristic aesthetics. Inspired by cyber and technology themes, it showcases a dark colour scheme and digital matrix patterns on its cylindrical rollers. Along with server-like watch band components, it has an electronic system look that appeals to tech enthusiasts and professionals. Equipped with magnifying glass monitors positioned over special shaped crystals, it seamlessly integrates with artificial intelligence to offer precise time-telling, notifications, personalised assistance and other information.
Title of Design: RaVtiX and XaVtiY
Finalist: Leung Tat Fai
School: Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
The RaVtiX and XaVtiY redefine timepieces by blending technology with unique design. Inspired by the dynamic movements of hypercars’ gauge clusters, they embody the sleek elegance and precision of high-performance machinery.
With a hidden dial that reveals itself when users raise their wrist, the RaVtiX and XaVtiY seamlessly blend human interaction with futuristic innovation. Beyond timekeeping, the RaVtiX and XaVtiY represent personal expression and serve as reminders to cherish the intricate relationship between time, space and human consciousness.
Title of Design: Journey of Time
Finalist: Mak Tin Long
School: Hong Kong Design Institute
This watch design embraces the Art Deco style, aiming to infuse future technology with deeper aesthetic connotations. The prime of Art Deco coincided with a prosperous era, and through this design, the designer articulates a vision of a beautiful future filled with prosperity. By carrying forward the elegant aura of Art Deco, the designer hopes that technological development can uphold humanity’s pursuit of beauty. Skilfully blending classical aesthetics with futuristic technology, the designer envisions an ideal blueprint where technology and aesthetics harmoniously coexist.
Title of Design: Starlight
Finalist: Yip Yu Ching
School: Hong Kong Design Institute
The Starlight is designed to help its user locate the best stargazing position. It features traditional watch pointers to indicate the time. However, when the crown is pressed, the pointers on the dial disappear. Instead, the user’s position and constellation pattern are displayed.
The Starlight is not a smartwatch, yet it can still provide positioning and constellation display capabilities, assisting users in finding the optimal position for stargazing and ensuring that they have the best viewing experience.
Finalist: Cho Wing Ting
School: Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
In nature, phenomena like the golden ratio found in seashells and the reflection seen in water evoke sensations similar to the perfectly generated images produced by artificial intelligence algorithms. They subtly reveal a dazzling and unique beauty.
The dial of the Silver Radiance is adorned with gems. As the wearer moves her wrist, the gems’ radiance is reflected by the snail-shaped glass cover. The watch strap is composed of 12 stainless steel components that resemble infinite mirrors. The watch elegantly presents the inherent intelligence found in both nature and artificial intelligence.
Title of Design: Float Flow
Finalist: Man Hoi Yan
School: Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
Flowing particles, constantly changing, creating the past and the future. Over thousands of years, science and technology have developed rapidly, evolving with each passing day. As time goes by, the world may eventually forget the past.
We might find ourselves submerged in the torrent of history, unable to escape the consequences of becoming particles ourselves. Only by integrating the past with the present and blending the root particles of all things with future technologies and artificial intelligence, can we connect the past with the future.
Time may take away the past, but it does not take away the future.
Title of Design: X Marks
Finalist: Kwok Moon Wai
School: Hong Kong Design Institute
Relationships are like a treasure hunt, with each connection representing a precious discovery. However, as human memory has limitations, it can be difficult to recall the details of each person and interaction.
AI records conversation content, which it then organises for future reference. It identifies topics, emotions and importance, automatically labelling conversations. This enables quick retrieval and better communication. Through the connected eyeglasses, relevant information about specific individuals is displayed to the user during interactions. This design enhances the value and depth of exchanges, fostering a greater appreciation of each other’s uniqueness and cultivating meaningful relationships.
