Fun & Funny Microbrand Watches
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Some watches are built to disappear under a stiff cuff. This group? They are not those watches. The Atlas’ “Fun” tag collects a herd of these makers, willing to make the hobby a little less solemn and serious. Whether it’s through color, visual jokes, swear words, or literally penguins copulating... these are pieces that clearly weren’t approved by a committee. Mr Jones Watches, Studio Underd0g, FUTURE FUNK, Brew, Klokers, Sō Labs and plenty of others live somewhere in this neighborhood or neighborhoods adjacent.
HMNWatch
$50–$150
De Rijke & Co
$2,000–$5,000
Von Vogel
$150–$300
Marloe Watch Company
$400–$900
Awake Watches
$500–$2,700
Choosz
$50–$150
Wren
$950–$1,600
Briston
$250–$600
Art Watch Gallery
$600–$1,150
85RETRO
$100–$300
Concentric Watches
$250–$2,250
Vultura
$200–$300
HappieWatch
$200–$300
GB Watch Co.
$0–$50
Seaborne Watches
$300–$450
Out of Order
$250–$950
The Unemployed Philosophers Guide
$0–$50
Phoibos
$250–$600
Geylang Watch Co
$350–$600
DEDEGUMO
$400–$750
Mad Hudson Watches
$150–$250
Ercigoj
$2,500
SevenFriday
$1,100–$1,650
CLE-Time
$150–$500
A funny watch doesn't have to be a novelty watch
There is a difference between a throwaway gag and a genuinely good watch that happens to have a sense of humor. Some brands here make serious mechanical watches with unserious dials. Others use color, typography, animation or unconventional ways of telling time to make the object itself more playful. The point is personality, not a rubber chicken strapped to your wrist.
Microbrands have more room to get weird
Big watch companies usually need a design to work for a very large audience. Small independents can survive on the opposite idea: make something specific enough that a smaller group absolutely loves it. That makes microbrands unusually fertile ground for funny, colorful and oddball watches — the sort of pieces that can turn a collection from “very tasteful” into “actually memorable.”