Spherical pocket watch
Watchismo's got a freakish and wonderful new pocket watch, the Eris:Eris Planetary Sphere Watch (Thanks, Mitch!)Either way, this watch, designed by students from l'Ecole d'Arts Appliqués Genèva is a 100 % Swiss made product by Pierre Junod Switzerland and can be worn as a pocket watch, pendant or used as a small desk clock. The Materials are white hour hand & orange minute hand, anthracite anodized aluminum case, laser engraved figures, mineral glass, Swiss quartz movement, each watch is sold with a natural rubber strap to hang from your neck, a wall, anything you wish to have time fly by.
The time is displayed with two pointers (extended from hidden hands) floating around the "equator" of the globe. The minutes indicated on the upper hemisphere and the hours highlighted down below.
Previously:
- Watchismo Xmas guide - Boing Boing
- Pocket-watch made from carved bone - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: History of electric watches
- Early calculator watch prototype - Boing Boing
- History of armored military watches - Boing Boing
- Pictorial history of kids' watches - Boing Boing
- Steampunk "gothic pirate spaceship" watch - Boing Boing
- History of slide-rule wristwatches - Boing Boing
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