Halloween is my favorite childhood holiday for good reason; it attempts to imbue fantasy with reality for at least one day. And it is perfectly legitimate to do so. That is why I have been tempted on so many occasions to spend hundreds on fancy costumes.

Likewise, Corum knows how to imbue a healthy amount of fantasy in their watches and make them perfectly legitimate luxury timepieces. Corum has released a number of interesting and high quality watches (many of them limited editions) over the years. For whatever reason, a large number of them have features a skull and other parts of a skeleton. They aren’t spooky per se, but they are certainly avant garde and not for everyone. They are certainly for me though, and I love these mostly limited edition watches from Corum.

Most of these watches are based on the Corum Bubble watch, with its tall domed sapphire crystals, and rounded shaped. Really, this are nice watches to hold and wear. You might be put off by their unorthodox looks at first, but you’d be silly not to give them a chance.

Corum’s obsession with skulls has thus far produced a range of watches unlike anything else. None of these are mere novelty watches. Each has a very high level of quality, with many featuring fully diamond gilded bezels. I am not going to go into detail with each of these watches because there are so many, but if you hover your mouse over the pictures, you’ll learn the model name. My favorite is probably the Jolly Roger model that features the bones as watch hands. This is pure Beetlejuice-esque and extremely whimsical. I mean all of these watches have so much personality it is hard to not like them. It only Tim Burton remained just being a good art director, and never moved on to being a terrible movie maker, but I digress.

You’ll find three hand watches to chronographs, that have either mechanical or quartz movements. The art work on the watches is really nice with a tasteful and almost cartoon like appeal. These watches aren’t for the overly serious of us, and probably won’t heighten your status in a board meeting. However, for most other occasions, and Halloween, these are some of the finest offerings from watch maker Corum.

Oh, and you’ll find one non-Corum watch in the mix below. It is the Krieger Skeleton Skeleton (yes, written twice). This is a rare limited edition from watch maker Krieger which is part of their skeleton watch collection. This usually means that you can view the workings of the watch, but they actually use little bones in the frame of the watch movement. Pretty cool.

See Corum Skull and Limited Edition watches on eBay here.

See Corum watches on Amazon here.

CORUM Jolly Roger Chrono Limited SS Leather Watch Ref 19626020 Used W Box Rare $2,762.10 Time Remaining: 2d 43m Buy It Now for only: $2,762.10 Buy It Now

Corum Baron Samedi Bubble Stainless Factory Diamond Bezel with Box and Papers $4,889.99 Time Remaining: 11d 12h 2m Buy It Now for only: $4,889.99 Buy It Now

NEW Krieger Skeleton Mysterium See Through g51001c $7,440.00 Time Remaining: 20d 8h 11m Buy It Now for only: $7,440.00 Buy It Now

Krieger Skeleton With Diamond Dial K7007D1C $4,900.00 Time Remaining: 20d 9h 41m Buy It Now for only: $4,900.00 Buy It Now

Unique CORUM Jolly Roger Skull Alarm Desk Clock Prototype 1 1 2000 w BOX $5,000.00 Time Remaining: 22d 14h 1m Buy It Now for only: $5,000.00 Buy It Now

Corum is clearly taking it slow with the Corum Bubble, but these are nice models. All these 2015 Corum Bubble watches use the same motions that Corum utilized in its previous three-hand Corum Bubble watches, which is their Caliber CO 0082 (an foundation Swiss ETA 2892 automatic). The CO 0082 was skeletonized for its non-limited edition model that’s the return of the Corum Bubble Skeleton. Each of both limited edition models will have a total of 350 pieces. More good news is in respect to pricing – which is quite welcoming for its limited edition models (even in comparison to the costs of original Corum Bubble watches available for sale) in a decent $3,425 for the Corum Bubble All Black and Corum Bubble Vintage, along with a lofty $8,300 for its non-limited Corum Bubble Skeleton.My favored family of watches in the current collection of Corum products is the Admirals’ Cup. According to a currently defunct boat race, the first Admiral’s Cup watch began in the 1980s and was the first yachting watch to wear on or off deck with your boating shoes and skipper cap. What’s indicated the Admiral’s Cup set for so long would be the 12-sided case and using vibrant boat pennant flags over the hour mark. The latter has been mostly depreciated since the colors no longer exist on most new Admiral’s Cup watches. Lots of new Admiral’s Cup watches are still fairly cool. But with watches such as the Chronograph Tourbillon 47 Seafender (that in its very own way is interesting) I feel as the first theme and personality of the Admiral’s Cup series has formally been thrown overboard. CORUM BARON SAMEDI BUBBLE 18 27 DIAMOND 18K ROSE GOLD SKULL RARE WATCH LIMITED $19,900.00 Time Remaining: 23d 12h 19m Buy It Now for only: $19,900.00 Buy It Now