The Hourglass By Marc Newson


Australian designer Marc Newson has designed an hourglass for watch brand Ikepod, which contains tiny stainless steel balls in place of sand.

The Hourglass is the consummate Ikepod anachronism , a merger of an age old time keeping mechanism crafted by hand, filled with millions of high tech metallurgical nanoballs, resulting in a 10 or 60 minutes chronometer unlike any other.

Our glass blower based in Basel, Switzerland individually produced each piece by hand, closely reproducing Newson’s design.

Read the original blog post here on Dezeen.

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