A new wave of modern watch designs spurns traditional dials and hands in favour of inventive alternatives
By James Buttery

Sevenfriday P3/06 Yacht Club

It?s difficult to shake the feeling that Sevenfriday, in just five years of operation, has been one of the most influential new watch brands to emerge in the 21st century. Disruptive to the core, both in its approach to marketing and the design of their watches, the brand began by tearing away at the recognised structure and appearance of the wristwatch. Sevenfriday repositioned so many elements on the dial that the term no longer seemed appropriate: they prefer ?interface?.

While only the M-Series has dispensed with hands altogether, the majority of its watches have taken a pick ?n? mix approach to displaying the time, employing discs, retrograde scales and indicators, often on the same watch. This latest watch, the P3/06 Yacht Club is a 450-piece limited edition tribute to life on the ocean waves based around an automatic Miyota movement and follows the second of two design themes vital to the brand?s success. (The first being a reccuring association with motorbikes.) Here though, it is all about the eternal holiday that the brand conjures through its name and carefully curated Instagram account. £1,380

HYT H0 Silver

There?s always been something exaggerated about the visible components within HYT?s watches, almost as though the micro bellows and turbine blade small seconds indicator on the dia...