Manufacturers have been trying to reinvent wristwatches since its introduction in the mid 1800s.

Sometimes they got it right, other times they got it spectacularly wrong.

Sometimes they got it… weird.

From Cartier’s attempts to Vacheron’s offset dial, check out these five watches with unusual shapes.

Tiffany & Co. East West Blue

Available from Tiffany & Co with different options for the dial and the strap, the East West timepiece is made of stainless steel, featuring a Tiffany Blue dial with silver numerals.

The watch is powered by a quartz movement and retails for $3,000.

Cartier Crash

Gone and forgotten for many decades, the Crash was made popular again thanks to (duh) the internet.

In 1967, Cartier’s London branch came up with the Crash, a beautifully weird timepiece with a “distorted” face.

Some say the watch is a tribute to Salvador Dalí’s artwork, while others believe the dial (and the name) are inspired by a watch that survived a (literal) car crash.

A Cartier Crash from the first batch sold for $1.65 million last year.

Cartier Tank Asymétrique

Cartier experimented with unusual shapes more than most and in 1936, they launched the Tank Asymètrique.

Like most designs from the mid 20s and 30s, the idea came from car racing and the watch was indeed intended to make reading the time while driving easier.

The Asymètrique is powered by an 18-jewel Piaget cal. 9P2 movement and only 300 units were made, 200 of which come with an 18k yellow gold case and the remaining 100 were made from platinum.

Two years ago, Cartier introduced another version of the Tank Asymétrique at Watches & Wonders.

You can find pre-owned models for around $100,000 on Chrono24.

Cartier Cloche

Cartier unveiled the original Cloche (French word for ‘bell’) in 1922 and the timepiece has been regularly re-edited through the years.

It is always produced in limited quantities but it is relatively affordable, considering history, heritage and rarity, and it can be found in the pre-owned market for under $8,000s.

The watch is available both with quartz and mechanical movement, most modern versions are powered by quartz.

Obviously, when we say “relatively affordable”, what we actually mean is “a bit less expensive than you thought”.

Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921

In 1921, they introduced a wristwatch to celebrate the economic expansion in North America and epitomize the Art Deco trend of the era.

It featured an eccentric cushion case with rotated orientation, designed to help the wearer check the time without turning the wrist.

Believe it or not, the watch was designed with drivers in mind because the rotated dial meant drivers could check the time while holding the steering wheel at 10:20 position.

In 2009, Vacheron introduced a modern reinterpretation of the design, which is the watch you see in the pictures.

The crown is located between 1 and 2 o’clock and the sandblast textured dial features black Arabic numerals and Breguet-style hands.

The 40mm case is made of 18-carat pink gold.

It is powered by a manual wind caliber 4400AS vibrating at 28.800 VPH with a 65-hours power reserve.

And now comes the hard part: it costs €35,900.