What wall clocks could look like.
15.05.2025There are analog clocks, mechanical clocks, digital clocks, automatic clocks, cuckoo clocks, church clocks – and there are surprising clock creations. As part of Milan Design Week, the 24 Hours Exhibition showcased 24 crazy and wonderful clocks by various designers that couldn’t be more surprising. The designers were all given the same task by the exhibition’s curators, Canadian designer Jamie Wolfond and Milan-based Studio Simple Flair: to design a wall clock that fits into a square 1.6 ft box.
The online magazine dezeen writes: “Wolfond said the aim was to show the scope for creativity within this particular object. There are all kinds of materials, shapes and mechanisms among the resulting clocks, revealing the different design methodologies of each contributor.”
“A clock is a measuring instrument, but it also has characteristics that other devices of this type do not have,” the Toronto-based designer is quoted as saying in the article.
He continues: “Unlike measuring instruments such as rulers, scales, or thermometers, a watch is not only practical, but also a beautiful decoration, a sign of craftsmanship, and a status symbol. It is truly remarkable that a Rolex, a grandfather clock, and Big Ben can all belong to the same category.”
In a recently published article, dezeen showcases seven particularly unusual watches from the exhibition, including one by Wolfond and others by Marco Campardo, Studio Œ, Shigeki Fujishiro, Sam Newman, Chris Kabel and Dach & Zephir.
Other artists who contributed their watch creations to the exhibition include Alban Le Henry, Chris Fusaro, Daniel Schofield, Earnest Studio, Hugo Passos, and Sam Weller, John Tree, Julien Renault, Jun Yasumoto, Kindkow, Maddalena Casadei, MSDS, Rui Pereira, Sam Stewart, Shane Schneck, Sina Sohrab, Studio Gorm, and Théo Leclercq and Camille Viallet.
If you would like to learn more about this unusual project, read the full Dezeen article.
Featured image source: dezeen, Belle by Studio Œ