Editor’s note: If I needed any further proof that the ’90s were back in a big way, it was seeing a 20-something friend of a friend with a Stussy tattoo on their wrist. For me, that sealed the deal. And while street/skate style has been an accepted new norm in the world of fashion for sometime now, the cycle of fashion turns a little slower in the watch industry. But it does turn, as the return to favour of yellow gold and two-tone shows. So, in that spirit, here are nine watchmaking innovations from the ’90s that challenge the common perception that it was the decade that horological innovation forgot. Sitting between the now nostalgia-laden ’80s and the innovation explosion of the 2000s, the 1990s is seen as something of a watchmaking wasteland, a bold (and brash) period that’s currently out of fashion, but not far enough away to be viewed through the rose-tinted glasses of history. But were the ’90s really a write-off? Here are nine groundbreaking ’90s watches that redeem watchmaking’s forgotten decade. 1991 – Audemars Piguet Star Wheel What is it? Watchmakers are, by and large, bound by tradition and stick to tried and true methods, like…
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