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A-Z A complete listing of all watches shown in alphabetical order.
Mechanical Watches powered by a traditional, mechanical movement.
Quartz Watches with battery-powered quartz movements.
Electric/Electronic Battery-powered watches with electro-mechanical, electric or electronic movements.
British Watches made in Great Britain.
Chinese Watches made in China.
Russian Watches made in the Soviet Union or modern-day Russia.
Japanese Watches made in Japan.
American Watches made in the USA or by/for American companies.
Military/Space Military and Space related watches including homage and commemorative pieces.
Pilot/Aviator Watches intended for pilots or with some aviation connection.
Sport/Diver Watches associated with a sport or a particular sporting event or personality.
Pocket Pocket watches.
Movements For those interested in what makes watches tick! A selection of watch movement pictures.
Dating Vintage Watches A rough guide to dating your vintage watch by its movement or case serial number.
Screensavers / Virtual Add a little horological magic to your computer desktop
Links A selection of links to the interesting websites of other collectors.


New content added April 2010 and more to follow soon so check back regularly!

Mechanical Clock:
If you love mechanical clocks and watches then this screensaver is for you. It's a highly-detailed, chiming mechanical clock that displays a fully-working, mechanism. Can optionally run as animated Active Desktop wallpaper. Download Trial version.

Digital Clock:
An amazing close-up view inside an extraordinary multi-module digital clock that almost gives the viewer the impression of being inside one of the vast Krell machines from Forbidden Planet! The clock contains complex wiring looms and circuit boards with detailed electrical components and vertical rails along which modules containing different types of digital clock technology are raised and lowered. There are LCD's, modern OLED's, traditional red LED's, an old style flip-clock, oscilloscope modules and, my favourite, Nixie style valve modules. The hour, minute and seconds modules can even be mixed and matched. Watch a video (1m 29s / 6MB). Download Trial version.

Water Clock:
A water-driven clock with a highly-detailed, fully-working mechanism. The lighting on this screensaver changes throughout the day to match dawn, daytime, dusk and night time. As night falls the clock is subtly illuminated and fireflies flicker around the dial. Download Trial version.

Ice Clock:
A mysterious chiming clock made from blocks of ice floating in a running stream. If you watch closely you will spot Koi Carp swimming underneath. Download Trial version.

Cuckoo Clock:
One of my personal favourites, the Cuckoo Clock is very Tolkien-esque. A gnarled old tree stands in the middle of a forest clearing. Someone has mounted cuckoo clocks on the tree and forest birds sit in the boughs appearing to stand guard. A live cuckoo pops out of one of the cuckoo clocks on the hour and half-hour to signal the time. From dawn through to dusk the sun moves across the sky and birds can be heard singing in the tree and the surrounding forest. As day turns to dusk, lanterns in the tree are lit and the clock dials become illuminated. As night falls, the moon rises and the birdsong is replaced by the howling of wolves from deep within the forest! Very atmospheric. Download Trial version.

Coral Clock:
The ruins of an ancient clock tower that perhaps once stood in a mighty city swept away by rising seas long ago. Strangely, despite being inundated with all that corrosive salt water and seaweed, the clock is still working perfectly! Download Trial version.

Clock Tower:
A marvellously architected clock tower standing in the centre of a city with the constant murmur and hubbub of the townspeople below punctuated by the chiming of the bells in the clock tower. This is another beautifully-lit screensaver where dawn gradually changes to dusk in real time. Download Trial version.

The Lost Watch:
A careless traveller has a hole in his pocket and has dropped this charming pocket watch and some spare change in a stream! The watch is still running so he can't be too far away! Download Trial version.

The Lost Watch II:
Oh dear, our butter-fingered friend above has passed this way again and dropped another watch, more coins and his door keys this time! He really should learn to be more careful! Download Trial version.

Zodiac Clock:
An astrological marvel with whirling constellations and signs of the Zodiac, Download Trial version.

AJ Screensaver:
14 bundled clock screensavers including Yugo Nakamura's hand-written clock, InsertMonkey's TimeLine, a classic European railway clock that's also very much like a Mondaine watch or the new Smiths "Big-Date" PRS-27 from Timefactors, a traditional clock with Roman numerals and sub-seconds dial and eight other clocks by Charles Salim that include a Mickey Mouse and Hans Donner's Tme Dimension. FREE.

Clockblock:
Very similar to Yugo Nakamura's hand-written clock (incorporated in the AJ Screensaver above) this one is, I think, by the same author and illustrates time by creating towers from building blocks. FREE.

Crazy Screen:
This screensaver mimics the early digital watches in which hours, minutes and seconds are displayed on rotating discs viewed through a window. FREE.

Drop Clock:
One of my favourites, this clock is more a work of art than a screensaver. High-speed (slow motion) photography has been used to show numerals representing the time falling into water, creating splashes on the surface, and sinking slowly to the bottom. Trial versions for Mac or Windows.

Fliqlo Digital Desk Clock:
This screensaver accurately mimics an old style digital desk clock where the printed numbers flip over. FREE for Mac OS X or Windows.

Polar Ckock:
It's not especially easy to tell the time with this one but I like it because it's use of changing colours draws a little from the Tian Harlan Chromachron. Concentric arcs illustrate the passage of different measures of time (seconds, minutes, hours, day, date and month, moving from the outermost to innermost arc by default, although this is configurable). The arcs move clockwise as time elapses and gradually change colour as they do so from Cyan at 0/360 degrees, through mauve at 90 degrees, orange at 180 degrees and lime green at 270 degrees. FREE for Mac OS X, iPhone, or Windows.

Rolex GMT-Master II with "Coke" Bezel:
A rather splendid version of the Rolex GMT-Master II, just like my real one! I got this ages ago from the TKF TimeKeeperForum but I can't remember if they had any others. Why not pay them a visit and have a look around! FREE.

I must also point out that Rolex themselves provide some wonderful, very realistic screensavers based on the various models from their current collection, so don't forget to check them out too.

Sun Clock:
There are lots of these types of clocks available. They show the passage of day/night across the surface of the earth and function as rather neat world clocks. This one by Map Maker is by far the best and most comprehensive I've seen. There are lots of versions (some free, some not) so head on over to Map Maker's Sun Clock page and choose the one that's right for you.