Hodinkee Wall Clock
Its form is directly inspired by the vintage travel alarm clocks found on our personal desks ones that we have traded among ourselves as gifts and tokens of appreciation.
Hodinkee wall clock. The travel clock was picked apart for not showing the movement for ripping off the design from older travel clocks while claiming originality for using a stock typeface which they called custom and for the idiocy of releasing a travel watch while the world. This clock does way more than telling time it testify of a bygone era where the time was not easily available thus those massive wall clocks being one of the best marketing medium. I only joined in because they censored the comments on instagram. Watch and horology experts hodinkee has crafted a vintage styled eight day travel clock perfect for those constantly on the move whether you re a jetsetter with wanderlust or a frequent business.
Its look is also reminiscent of the 1960s which marked the development of the air travel. The hodinkee eight day travel clock is the most recent development to come from our deeply rooted fascination with beautiful objects related to the passage of time. Introducing the patek philippe ref. 7234g 001 calatrava pilot travel time.
That people read the time by the positions of the hands which made numbers obsolete and that most people wore wristwatches thus transforming wall clocks into decorative elements rather than precision driven time tellers. The piece fit perfectly in nelson s thorough analysis of clock usage which had two main points. The hodinkee eight day travel clock is the most recent development to come from our deeply rooted fascination with beautiful objects related to the passage of time.