Most of the time I wear geeky watches, or dive watches, but sometimes you just want to strap on something clean and elegant. Via, let us introduce you to a.b.art watches, who have a nice focus on clean, uncluttered dials and reasonable pricing. Here’s the blurb from their front page:

    Clean, simple, uncluttered. Every watch in the a.b.art collection is designed with a purity inspired by the Bauhaus tradition and engineered in Switzerland. Yet with prices from £120 to £898, these are Swiss watches you can happily wear every day.

Pictured on the right is the series O which has a really clever date display: the black disc rotates around the dial, which is visual, clean, and uncluttered. More pictures and commentary after the jump.

List price on the series O is $239, which is quite reasonable. It’s 40mm wide, and will probably wear larger due to the ‘all-dial’ design. The cases are 316L stainless steel with sapphire crystals.

Browsing their PDF catalog, I was also quite taken by the series MM, with its elegant subseconds dial at six o’clock.
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They have good designs in various shapes, and all seem to be available in white or black.  They also offer different strap options as well.

To my eye, these have a combination of the Bauhaus look with a bit of Mondaine as well.

If you’re looking for something fancier than Skagen, but not as expensive as Nomos Glashutte, then a.b.art seems well worth a look.