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.
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