Function, Form, Design
No matter what any designer wants to think about his/her designs, function to a large degree has to dictate form.
A watch has to fit on a wrist, not be too heavy but big enough in this cast to read a screen so the upper and lower limits are not going to be very different from on manufacturer to another, then we get down to the arty part round corners or square etc. Very square corners may not be very appealing to look at and may catch on clothing so it's probably going to be rounded.
Any designer is sooner or later going to come to similar conclusions for similar items so really they are limited to colour , texture and material which are still dictated to some degree by function.
A lot of good engineers design as well or better than many 'Designers ' simply because they understand what dictates an elegant functioning piece of equipment, successful as he is Ive is no Conran.
If he doesn't like that he can sue me.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
