starck palindrome watches a study in simplicity
December 27th, 2007 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
Design virtuoso Philippe Starck continues to crank out some beautifully minimal timepieces, and these are no exception. The Starck Palindrome series offers up a design so clean that it doesn’t even look like it has a minute hand at first glance.
Look closer, and you’ll notice that the minute hand is actually replaced by the Starck logo on the watch’s slightly ovoid face. Then, a single rectangular block displays the current hour.
I was able to find these watches from Fossil in a men’s black ($125) and women’s white model ($110). With a little digging, you might be able to grab the hard-to-find, but oh-so-cool silver and orange version if you Google around a bit.
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December 27th, 2007 comments (5): stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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frickin cool! frickin cool! i even like the texture on the watchband.
good,very creative
surely its the other way round? The name sticking out less suggests that that is the hour hand, and the longer rectangle the minute.
Yeah, that’s what I thought would make sense too — but the description I was able to find (translated from French)…
“The hour hand of this watch unisex seems to float by magic while the minutes (symbolized by the logo Starck) runs on a disc.”
Just got an orange/silver one as a present. Yes, it’s weird: the hour hand is longer than the the minute one. I don’t know if I can get used to it.