It’s a skydial.
It tells you where you are in the day, not what time it is.
One hand travels once around the day, across the sky you’re standing under: Dawn, noon, dusk and night, with no numbers to read.
Scroll through a day Read the storyNothing to read. Everything to see.
One hand, one turn a day
Noon sits at the top and midnight at the bottom. The hand takes twenty-four hours to go around once, so the whole day is always in view, from beginning to end.
The sky is the dial
Above the horizon line is day; below it is night. Dawn, full daylight, the warm hour before sunset and the dark with its stars each have their own color.
Solar time, always
Noon on the dial is when the sun is highest where you are. It keeps the sun’s time, not the government’s.
The same dial, four times a day.
The sun climbs from the left.
The sun at its highest, at the top.
The sky warms as the sun goes down.
Stars, and the hand straight down.
The day, at a glance
A glance tells you how much daylight is left, how long since sunrise, how deep into the night you are. It answers the question you were actually asking.
Series 00
The first edition. Twenty, made by hand.
Twenty, because each one is prepared by hand on my bench, and twenty is how many I can do well and answer for myself.
The first five are $180. The other fifteen are $360. When it goes on general sale, it will be $540.
You reserve with a small deposit and pay the rest when yours is ready. Before it ships, every one spends a full day and night on a wrist and is checked against the original dial. If it doesn’t pass, it doesn’t ship, and your deposit comes back.
If anything isn’t right with yours, tell me, and I’ll make it right.
$50 now, refundable any time before it ships. The rest, plus shipping, is charged when yours has passed its bench test. Fix, replace or refund within 90 days of delivery.
For now, Series 00 is open to people who already know my work. Whatever is left after that opens to everyone.
“Watches always made me feel like time was ticking away, and they never showed any beginnings or endings, just endless motion. The Skydial gives an expansive sense of time, yet bounded by the opening of a sunrise and the close of a sunset.”Robert Richman
Series 00
$50 now, refundable any time before it ships. The rest, plus shipping, is charged when yours has passed its bench test. Fix, replace or refund within 90 days of delivery.