I admit i never used to wear a watch. I just used my cellphone to keep track of time. I don't know about you but it starts to get annoying afterwards, especially when you forget your cellphone at home. You are left without two important things; a way of communicating, and your only method of keeping track of time, ( unless of course you use a sundial), but enough about me, heres my take on the hour glass watch.
In reality its called the "Sand+Time" watch.
The beauty of it lies in the unification of modern technologies and old ways of measuring time (no its not a sundial).
Keeping with the "2 technology theme", the watch employs two modes of telling time.
The first mode is actually a screensaver that takes the form of a sand hourglass counting a certain time unit set by the user to their preference.
As time goes on the "grains of sand", i.e pixels, fall from the top of the watch to the bottom across the LED screen.
The second mode displays the time in numbers, the way most people are used too.
I honestly think its very cool and i would very much love to wear this gorgeous time piece.
Now for the sad part.
It's purely a conceptual design by Russian designer Pavel Balykin, so I guess I won't be seeing one on a store shelf anytime soon. Only time will tell.
Be sure to check out his website.
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Oh, and yes, i do wear a watch nowadays.
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