Philippe Starck Watches

Modernistic flair with a wry touch of wit thrown in. Those are the hallmarks of Philippe Starck watches and his venerable fashion line, which includes clothing, accessories, household goods – even home designs.
The Paris-born Starck founded his first design firm in 1969. Since then, he’s become known as an innovative leader in the modern design movement, known as New Design. Starck’s talents are revered the world over. French President Francois Mitterand paid the designer the ultimate compliment in 1982, when he asked Starck to design the interior his Paris apartments.
Wile many of his designs have reached to the upper echelons of society, Starck has become known through every stratum of society with his household items, including sleek toothbrushes and his highly stylized juicer, the Juicy Salif, which has since risen to the status of cult icon.
Starck’s designs rely heavily on a sense of fun and irony, reflected in the sleek, modern lines of his watches.
Marketed by the Fossil company, Philippe Starck watches are bold, contemporary, and often avant-garde in their take on modern design and fashion.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Philippe Starck’s Crystal Clear Digi. With its fat, ruby red crystal and flat, no-nonsense black strap, this watch is as in-your-face stylish as you can get. The large crystal displays the time in big, bold block digits. This design also offers are slightly more reserved gray strap option, with a choice of lime green or orangey-orange crystal.
If you look at only one Philippe Starck watch, make it the O-Ring. Looking for all the world like the eye of Cyclops, this watch is unapologetic in its decidedly whimsical, almost sardonic take on the traditional wristwatch.

Philippe Starck Watches Reviewed

No apologies. Two words that perfectly describe the bold, sometimes ascerbic stylings of New Design patriarch Philippe Starck.

Whether he’s designing a toothbrush for your local department store or the interiors of French President Francois Mitterand, Starck is entirely in his element when he’s offering up his own unique and eye-opening interpretations of everything fashionable.

Let’s face it. Wearing a Philippe Starck timepiece is going to get you noticed. It’s going to start some conversations. And it’s going to say a lot about your confidence and your own sense of image and style.

Starck’s watches, marketed and sold through Fossil, are as much like little works of modern art strapped to your wrist as they are like wristwatches. Every watch crafted by Starck is eminently functional at the most basic level. But any notion of simplicity is at once dispatched by the lucid interpretation of form and materials that Starck …