Minimalissimo

Designer Andreas Dober brings us back to tradition with this unique mechanical clock. Though it’s unlike anything we’ve seen before, the Catena Wall Clock produced by Anthologie Quartett, still seems familiar in its analog mechanical nature.

The Catena — named after the Latin word for chain — rotates a vertical bicycle chain with attached brass numbers in a clockwise direction. At the top of every hour the time appears at the zenith of the rotation. Between hours you can eyeball the amount of chain between numbers and get a surprisingly accurate estimate of the time. In the above clock photos, for example, it is approximately 11:05.

I love the clever simplicity of the Catena’s design, as well as the look.

 

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  1. alex

    brilliant, more industrial that minimal, but very very nice take on the traditional clock

  4. Chris

    @ rachael… pointless to make that comment about finding a pinpoint time. may as well have wrote that it’s not so good for military time either. you could have just commented saying “unique & interesting” and left it at that. just saying.

  5. ctd

    Interesting variant on this clock I have: http://www.e-potpourri.com/index.php/2007/10/24/monolithic-tower-clock-tells-time-via-a-rotating-square/

    No, precision time is not always needed or desirable. Methinks it is rarely needed, and the effort to convert 3:57 into “four” (for most practical purposes) is a waste. Visual proximity is good enough most of the time. Likewise, my preferred watch is a Movado with a silver dot at 12:00 and a uniform flat black on the rest; rough minute & hour angles is enough.