There are a lot of watches on the market and indicating the hour has not been their main goal for a long time. Nowadays watches are build to be fashionable and are worn as an accessory, so most important is the design. We’ve made a list of 10 cool, weird and amazing watches that would make anyone say “wow”.

1. LCD Radar Watch

If you really want to keep the time secret, this watch is perfect for you, and you can be sure nobody will figure out what time is it. Just that you have to realize you might also not understand what hour it is, either. The good part is that it comes with instructions, but the bad part is that the instructions don’t seem too easy to understand, so the time might remain a mystery, if you only have this watch. Anyway, nowadays anyone has a mobile phone and you can use it to know what time it is, while you can use this watch to test your friends intelligence. Tip: Before doing it, be sure to understand it yourself.

2. Nixie Watch

This watch looks designed especially for science geeks, because it displays the time on nixie tubes. For those that don’t know what nixie tubes are, they were used back in 1969 in calculators and are quaint neon display tubes.

This watch only requires the flick of the wrist to display the hours, minutes in seconds in a sequence. It’s advantages are that it’s both rugged and water resistant. The Nixie Watch is great somebody that wants to be unique.

3. Zihotch Watch

This is one strange watch you probably wouldn’t like to wear, especially if you’re not Japanese. Excepting it’s huge, it looks like an old phone and you need to dial “117″ to hear the time in Japanese. You can watch the video to understand better what are we talking about.

4. µWatch

The µWatch is the most advanced scientific calculator watch, that uses an open source software. It features a 16 bit microchip, 64KB of flash memory, 8KB of SRAM memory and can do a lot of algebric operations. The µWatch is not the kind of watch you would wear to impress your friends, because it does look ugly and it’s huge.

5. JIT Watch

If neither the design or size of a watch are important for you, but you only care for the features, then this watch might be your perfect choice. The JIT watch can connect via Bluetooth with any device, features GPS, GSM-tracking and can connect to the internet via a cellphone, using Bluetooth. It can synchronize with the cellphone and get the data from a calendar tool, like iCal. Also, it can access navigation, timetable and traffic services to help you with your meetings or schedules.

The JIT watch is designed to be used as a basic GPS, that will tell you how long will take you to reach your meeting location, how far is it from your current location and can let you know about entries from your calendar thrgouh vibrations. It sounds great, isn’t it ? It would be great, only if it worked right.

6. aoTimeFlexa

This is a self-gumming watch concept, that can be attached to virtually anything, from your hand to a jacket. The aoTimeFlexa concept is based on the flexible display technology and it can be bend and rolled like a paper. It also features touchscreen, so it doesn’t have any physical buttons. Being very slim and small, it can be used in any situation. Or it could, if it existed, but we have to wait until the technology advances so we can build something like this, unfortunately.

7. Cabestan Watch

You probably thought that you’ve seen them all, but check this one out. The Cabestan watch has a more than strange design and of course it couldn’t tell the time like any regular watch. The hours, minutes, seconds and power appear in cylinders located in it’s four corners. Also, you need to have some skills to set the time, because it’s neither a regular operations, like in other watches.

The mechanism is covered by a double sapphire crystal, while the metallic part by yellow gold, rose gold, white gold or platinum, depending on your choice. If you really want this luxury, but strange watch, prepare your pockets, because it’s no bargain.

8. Binary Watch

If you want to be the absolute computer geek, then this watch can’t miss from your wirst. But first you need to learn the binary language, if you don’t already know, because else you won’t be able to read the time.

9.Camera Phone Watch

The Telson TWC 1150 watch features a plug-in digital camera, 256 color LCD and supports a RUIM card, that’s used for international calling in GSM phones. But this isn’t more, it also features a planner, infrared wireless earpiece, and stopwatch.

10. Thumbnail Watch

A futuristic concept, designed for a contest of future ideas, that looks amazing, but can’t be built with our current technology. This would probably bee the most stylish watch and all popular companies would cry if it hits the markets.