This latest offering from the iconinc Mondaine shop, designed by Martin Drechsler, offers an interesting twist to time-telling. The red seconds hand takes 58 seconds to swoop around, before pausing for two seconds to synchronize, much the same way as the original Swiss Railway (SBB) clocks it draws inspiration from.
Since Schofield Watch Company‘s Signalman was released, its designer Giles Ellis has been riding his self-made wave of design-inspired success right into the upper echelons of modern horology. With his second timepiece, the Blacklamp, Ellis has taken his successful design and refined so much that one has to wonder where he’ll go next. When it comes to the details there is simply no other modern …
Albert Einstein once said, “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen all at once.” Well Dr. Einstein, we can think of another reason. Without time, there would be no reason to wear one of these stylish and socially progressive “uncorporate” gift sets from Shinola. The Swiss-quality timepieces are built by hand in a Detroit watch factory, by visionaries with a plan …