« a day of poetry in a box
Quick draw »

Alphabet Watch

A watch whose dial, instead of being divided into 12 hours that repeat twice, and shows minutes 60 seconds long, is divided into the 26 letters of the roman alphabet, and shows minutes 52 “seconds long” (upper and lower case). No more “one thirty”, instead we can say it’s about “L after C”, or “I’ll be there in a few letters.” or “I have to work until F.”

Tags: , ,

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 31st, 2008 at 5:29 am and is filed under Products, Textual, by Dan Waber. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Alphabet Watch”

  1. Kathleen Godwin Says:
    June 1st, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Brilliant…taking that in a slightly different direction…if the letters were musical notes, and the hours divided into three sets of 8, 6:30am might be F-sharp on a high octave, and 6:30pm would be F-sharp on a lower octave!

  2. John Shapter Says:
    June 1st, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    or….one hand for longitude, the other for latitude. “I`ll be home about Melbourne.”

    or… Lovers watches, one has the hours the other watch has the minutes.

  3. Kathleen Godwin Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    I think we have something here…