This chronometer was probably used on a World War II USAAF bomber. Graham (on the Watchuseek forum) sold it recently through Bonhams of London.
24 hour
Airnautic
From the Airnautic Watch Company web site:
The guiding design philosophy of AirNautic® Watch Company is to separate day and night as the elemental parameters of the perception of time. The course of the sun determines our regeneration phases and influences the biological processes of all life forms on our planet. In extreme conditions under water, in space, in the labyrinth of a cave system, or in a polar night, the holistic information on time can save lives. Being able to easily and instantly read this information at a glance is part of the philosophy and design concept of the new AirNautic Watch Company.
How can you not want one of these!?
Site move
I’ve just completed moving this site over to WordPress. If you’re reading this, we both made the move successfully. Apart from a few broken links, most of it appears to be OK. If anything isn’t working that should be, please let me know (there’s a Contact form on the Welcome page) .
This is a picture of my current screensaver project – a one-handed design. I’m still undecided as to whether I like the diluted precision.
Time is racing
The debut release from the San Diego three piece band “Spirit Photography” is called “Time is Racing”. The front cover features, appropriately, this astrolabe clock by Thomas Tompion.
Find them on myspace or at http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/releases/sbr016/.
A day in the life
The sound of one hand ticking
A new single-handed 24 hour watch:
Here’s Klaus Botta on the philosophy of simplicity:
We live in a time of increasing complexity – the consequence of which is growing uncertainty and stress.A reduction in complexity and a focus on the bare essentials gives rise to a sense of security and calm. Coupled with the highly functional orientation of the product‘s stylistic vocabulary, this embodies the philosophy of Botta-Design, a philosophy which is particularly noticeable in our one-hand watches. Things become clearer and easier to comprehend when they are stripped down to the bare essentials
Prices start from 300 Euros. Visit Botta Design for details.
Cognitime’s DØGN watch
The new DØGN watch from Cognitime is certainly a thing of beauty:
It features an ingenious figure-of-eight display for the hours, surrounded by a circular minute dial. The segments light up according to the time: 12 noon and midnight meet in the center. The first 12 hours of the day are shown by an illuminated segment that marches counter-clockwise round the top circle, and the second 12 hours of the day marches round the lower circle.
It’s also got some scheduling and calendar features, but I haven’t been able to find out much about how these are supposed to work.
Where are the iPhone clocks?
Native applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch are arriving in droves at the iTunes App store. However, there are very few clock apps, and only one of interest to 24 hour clock fans. It’s called Sol, written by Alexander Valys, (web site http://sol.avalys.net/). It’s an elegant sun clock showing the rising and setting times of the sun for a number of locations, on a 24 hour dial (12 noon at the top, 24:00 at the bottom).
iPhone clock
Here’s a software experiment: a time piece for the iPhone. It’s a ‘web app’, which means that it’s an ordinary web page that’s been designed specifically to work on an iPhone or iPod Touch. In fact, I suspect that it won’t work in any other browser apart from Safari. The artwork is mostly in PDF, for one thing.
If you have an iPhone (or an iPod Touch), please try this out, and let me know what you think!
Note that a single tap will rotate the dial so that 12 or 24 is at the top.
Cool watch design
Here’s a cool watch design contributed by Pazzy. Notice the moon’s age dial markings (orange) and moon disk (near the 20), and the magenta digital controls around the edge. I think the world map in the center animates too.
