December 18, 2008
Time for change
…No sooner had Obama hit the campaign trail, in early 2007, than the "watch guys" started studying the photos, trying to identify his watch. And he was an easy study. With an image for being somewhat casual, and summertime tours through the Southern states, he often rolled up his sleeves. And when he rolled up his sleeves, the watch freaks saw a big, stylish watch . . . not the usual plastic Timex or Casio, so popular among those running for office (or in office), but a large, light-dialed sport style watch.
But was this watch? The discussion forums came alive. Most experts saw a light-dialed TAG-Heuer sports watch . . . probably either a Series 1000 or Series 2000 . . . one of the common quartz watches of the mid-1990's.
Then suddenly, something strange happened late in the year 2007. In the place of this rather common TAG-Heuer, the experts spotted a huge black Panerai; others saw a black-dialed Carrera re-issue; and still others saw a Royal Oak, something that Governor Schwarzenegger might wear. Wow!! Could this be true? That rather than switching from the TAG-Heuer to the nondescript Timex or Casio, Senator Obama was actually stepping up his horological game? Could it be that he had gone from Wal-Mart to Wempe? What would the pollsters say? What would McCain say? Could this man of the people, the law professor and community organizer, be wearing a high-end Swiss watch?
Barack Obama's Watches. (By Jeff Stein at On the dash, the definitive online guide to Heuer chronographs and dashboard timepieces)
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Life clocks 02 - Clock mechanism slowed down 61320 Time: each number represents 7 years. Collection Antoine de Galbert
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November 16, 2008
Etch-A-Sketch Clock
Etch-A-Sketch Clock Draws Out the Time, Erases Itself
A Cathode Corner Nixie Waist Watch and 9 other weird watch concepts
Unrelated: Ouch
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September 16, 2008
New ways of telling time
Time Beat Clock, created by Leo Mariño of Barcelona
Grid based clock
Word clock, a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X and Windows. Also, a rotary version. 24 other screensavers
Markrokosmos by Mark Bischof. (From Computus)
John Walkenbach invented a new way to tell time. It's pretty simple, and it will revolutionize time-keeping as we know it. In his system, the time is based on the percentage of the day. 12:00 midnight is 0%, 12:00 noon is 50%, 6:00 PM. is 75%, and so on
AION - World's largest Rolling Ball Clock
Stephen Hawking is to unveil The Corpus Clock, a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker
Cool Clock, the Javascript Analog Clock. (From Presurfer)
2,200 clock cliparts. Among 38,000 other pieces of free quality educational clipart
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May 25, 2008
Procrastinator's Clock
How do procrastinators think of time? Why is it that they leave things until the last minute? How does their internal clock operate? Now you can customize your Google page with Procrastinator's Clock, a clock that will make you get there on time, since it can be up to 15 minutes early. (No Joke)
Analogy by Jesson Yip is a typographic clock which explores the numerical and spatial qualities of digital and analogue clocks.
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March 29, 2008
Watchcocks
Unreadable minimalist watches (at Oobject. Many other displays there, f. ex. Great climbing walls)
Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy Helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion. (From Presurfer. Also there, Remember You Will Die Watch)
In the 17th and 18th century Baroque art period, time was less insisting, and artisans of the old world devoted countless hours fashioning intricate covers to protect the delicate balance wheels of fine watches. These covers, or watchcocks were placed on the movement and inside the watch cases, thereafter seen only on infrequent occasions when the cases were opened
Robert Lang, creator of delightful Origami insects,, and author of many Origami books (including Origami Design Secrets) has made an Origami Klein Bottle
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, Tony Zimnoch’s Bench from West Yorkshire, UK (I presume)... Submit yours for consideration.
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March 12, 2008
Etch-A-Sketch Clock
It draws out the time every minute and then erase itself. Built by Angela Yuan
A drunk was proudly showing off his new apartment to a couple of his friends late one night. He led the way to his bedroom where there was a big brass gong and a mallet.
“What’s that big brass gong?” one of the guests asked.
“It’s not a gong. It’s a talking clock,” the drunk replied.
“A talking clock? “How’s it work?” the friend asked, squinting at it.
“Watch,” the drunk replied. He picked up the mallet, gave the gong an ear-shattering pound, and stepped back. The three stood looking at one another for a moment.
Suddenly, someone on the other side of the wall screamed, “You asshole, it’s three-fifteen in the morning!”
(From Miss Cellania)
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January 31, 2008
Great Clocks of Christendom
The Typo clock
Great Clocks of Christendom. (From Quiddity)
The 10 Most Difficult to Read Tokyoflash Watches
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November 23, 2007
Photoshopped clocks
Welcome to my private collection of Soviet and Russian timepieces
Binary Clock by Michael Battle. How to Convert an analog wall clock into a binary clock
Photorealistic Watch Drawn by pencil artist Eivind from Norway
Photoshopped clocks - In this contest you are asked to design new clocks from other things, or redesign existing clocks with some unusual elements
Angeling Around Clock. (From Presurfer)
The Shinshoku
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September 11, 2007
Watch Tattoo
The Now Watch - A timely reminder of the moment at hand
Music Dance Uniqlock
More from Japan: Steampunk watches by Haruo Suekichi
Real (dead) Cuckoo Clock by Michael Sans crucified
HD3 Vulcania and other complex watches
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June 25, 2007
Heeeeeere's Johnny's Clock
Beautiful, elegant design. Fun to watch: Polar Clock v2 at Pixel Breaker
World’s Largest Clocks visible on Google Earth
Chris Dimino's The Shining cuckoo clock
Marvin Schneider, New York City's Official Clock Master
Wake up to the gentle sound of wind chimes with Wind Chime Alarm clock
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April 26, 2007
Around About
Online alarm clock. (From Presurfer)
Another online clock
Fake watches by Real Fake Watches
Anthony Dickens Rotating clock
The entire top surface of the Time table is a digital clock
Verbarius Clock spells out the time in a different way every minute
The Shinshoku is a continuous stainless steel band that wraps around your wrist with a matrix of punched out holes. Beneath the surface are 29 super bright LED's which illuminate to indicate the time. (From The Boings)
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February 10, 2007
Water Clocks
Swiss clockmaker Heinz Mutter designed three unique pieces:
Canna is a water clock. It has twelve crystal clear tubes that fill like a cascade with colored water. Filo is a column clock with time or date, and Quadro has a display face which grows as time passes
Other water clocks:
At a water museum in Saint-Jean-Du-Bruel
Bernard Gitton Time-Flow Clock at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
The Borugak Jagyeongnu in Seoul, Korea
Su Song’s Water Clock from the 11th century
The 14th-century Bou Inania in Fez, Morocco
Old TV clocks mostly from the UK, re-created in Macromedia's Flash by Dave Jeffery
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one” and other Clock Quotes
Animated Mechanical SVG Clocks with moving gears
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December 23, 2006
How Italians tell time
Stephen Fry-voiced alarm clock
Aluna, the world’s first tidal powered moon clock. (From Activity Book)
Clock composed of Flickr photos at flickr Time
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November 16, 2006
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Hacker's Bench Unofficial Registry of Giant Digital Clocks where “Giant = greater than 1 foot tall”
A Seiko wrist watch with computer, 1984
A Chinese watch on flickr. More there: Squared circles
The World Clock (Weltzeituhr) in Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Re-post: The Watchismo Times, a blog about unusual, vintage wristwatches of the 1950s-1980s
News: Business Week reports on a new survey by Seiko that indicates that ownership of wrist watches has fallen from 70% in 1997 to only 46% today. Why? People use their mobiles to tell the time these days
I am away on a short vacation to China at the moment. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment
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September 19, 2006
Biological clocks
When I first started collecting Unusual Clocks and Watches in 2003, it was mostly to archive all those flash-type clocks. Since then, the collection have grown to include many hundreds of odd time pieces. Have some more:
A clock by Billy Chasen
Online clock and Online Stopwatch
Odd watches - "Why make it simple when it can be complicated ?" (From Information Junk)
Making a Watch by Hand. In these days of “fast” and “convenient” I decided to commence a work of “painstaking” and “craftsmanship”, making my own wristwatch
10:08, 8 minutes past 10, is roughly the time analog watches are set to in most advertisements, though actual times shown vary between about 10:08 and 10:10. There are several reasons offered by watch companies, many of them psychological, and none of them verifiable as the actual origin of the practice
Re-post: Clockr uses random digit images from Flickr to display the current time
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