Hysek Colosso Is A Weird Wonderful Watch Completely Out Of Place Today

I am glad that Hysek did not make a mockery out of this watch by placing a tourbillon in it. Now that would just be silly.The style of the watch does not resemble most of the Hysek line. Jorg Hysek, the founder of the company is not involved any longer with the design (so I hear), and it shows. This is not necessarily bad, but it seems as though the designers attempt to work off his previous Hysek watch designs in the new ones, but can't really figure out where they are going. They are attempting to stick with the his lauded themes, but stray in interesting directions, which is obviously the whole point of the Colosso. Other than a bit of the strap clasp and lug design, and the font for the numbers on the face, little on the Colosso really says "Hysek" to me. There is a fair amount of Richard Mille in the design however.I am afraid that the current state of the watch industry is not primed to appreciate watches like the Hysek Colosso. Today, fashion, looks, and style are very important. In essence, most of the emphasis is placed on offering watches to the super rich that look good. That is not always the case of course, and we still see interesting beasts like the Hysek Colosso.Seeing the Colosso reminds me of the DeWitt WX-1 Concept watch. Not because they look the same, but because they are bred from the same ilk. Two technically inclined science fiction watches meant for a very small number of enthusiasts. Each year you see a couple of watches like this which are debuted at Basel World, but this is certainly a very interesting model, from Hysek which is not typically a company to release such grand example of watch excess.The Colosso is really not a very pretty watch. While it does not have an offensive shape or anything like that, it looks like a planetary spaceship (literally to carry the planet), or some wearable version of HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey (just imagine the little revolving earth as a red and black "eye"). The watch case is in either white or rose gold and is rather large as you can imagine. The case is shrouded in a large and well cut sapphire crystal, while there is of course a see-through caseback window. The movement is a 62 jeweled manually wound in-house movement from Hysek.