While the overall appearance of the clock was the result of careful consideration by our in-house design team, one of the most exciting details we have to share about the HODINKEE Eight-Day Travel Clock has to do with its typeface. The grey dial fades in its central portion, leaving behind stylistic cues that are both sophisticated and subtle.

It's built from PVD-coated steel that has been upholstered by hand with goat leather dyed our signature shade of HODINKEE grey. Our clock highlights the key design elements shared between our favorite vintage examples. While the purpose of these clocks may have shifted away from being a utilitarian object on the cutting edge of society over the decades, we believe their design transcends the original form factor as a coherent expression of timelessness, fully able to be appreciated by today's watch collector. The clock is easily portable, and its compact dimensions allow it to fit in the palm of a hand, in the pocket of a jacket, stowed away discreetly in an attaché or messenger bag, or at your bedside right at home. But its function remains identical to the clocks found in the luggage of the early adopters of air travel, and the movement is the equivalent to what would be found in the premium travel clocks of yesteryear.Īt its simplest, the HODINKEE Eight-Day Travel Clock is a manually wound mechanical clock with an eight-day power reserve and alarm functionality. Its form is directly inspired by the vintage travel alarm clocks found on our personal desks, ones that we have traded among ourselves as gifts and tokens of appreciation. The HODINKEE Eight-Day Travel Clock is the most recent development to come from our deeply rooted fascination with beautiful objects related to the passage of time. What The Eight-Day Travel Clock Means To HODINKEE Although the concept of a GMT wristwatch was still a few decades off, and the idea of a worldtime wristwatch complication was still in its embryonic state in Louis Cottier's mind, early travelers required ways of telling time in transit, and the eight-day travel alarm clock was the solution. We've also always been fascinated by the substance and style of products associated with the advent of commercial aviation in the late 1920s and early '30s, including the clocks carried in the luggage of early globetrotters.

There's a single thread weaving across these subjects that we keep returning to – involving transportation of the past, and how horological innovation was a driving force in its development over time – and that we'd like to share with you today.įor years, we've marveled over the beauty and impressive accuracy of the railroad-grade, lever-set pocket watches produced in fin-de-siècle America – these were some of the most elaborately decorated and technically impressive timepieces ever produced on American soil. And the history of travel, and what its future could look like. The history of HODINKEE, and how much we've grown in a relatively short period of time.

There's the history of watchmaking, and how it relates to so many aspects of our lives. We've been thinking about history quite a bit these days.

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