Strom ‘In Memoriam HR Giger’ Watch.

Swiss*watch*brand Strom presents the “In Memorian HR Giger”*watch, one of the final projects on which the noted Swiss artist worked before his death in 2014 at the age of 74. A veritable ‘wrist sculpture’, the timepiece features HR Giger’s legendary bio-mechanoid creature.

Acclaimed for his “fantastic-realism” works, HR Giger shot to fame with his creation of the monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 film,*Alien, for which he received an Oscar in the “Best Visual Effects” category the following year.

Deeply saddened by the death of Giger, Daniel Strom waited three years before presenting the*watch*that they had created together, named “In Memoriam HR Giger” in tribute to him. For the official launch, he has chosen the HR Giger Museum in Gruyères, which features a sculpture of the biomechanoid creature emblematic of HR Giger’s work proudly displayed at the entrance.

Alongside the artist’s widow, Carmen Giger, the Bienne-based watchmaker unveiled this exceptional*watch, of which just 99 pieces have been produced.

Sculpted in the*silver*case, the elongated skulls of the Cyborg creature extend from the lugs, while its body parts are etched into thecase middle.

The entirely hand-worked silver cast dial was inspired by another of HR Giger’s works, and one of his best-known: the “ELP II” canvas (work no. 217) painted with an airbrush in a single night. A work that was stolen in 2005 and never returned to its rightful owner, despite the presence of tangible clues.

For Daniel Strom, with its lively, sensual mouth, the skull in the painting symbolizes the ephemeral nature of existence – a subject already explored in one of the preceding creations in his Agonium collection, of which the “In Memoriam HR Giger” is the sixth opus. The asking price for the*watch*is*$17,500.

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