Vintage Watches
These Watches Don’t Tell the Exact Time—and That’s the Point
Vintage Chromachron watches offer bright colors and a radically new approach to time
Originally published by Louis Westphalen on Hodinkee.
The "Anti-stress watch." This is how the Chromachron was described; it was praised for its inability to ever display the exact time. Its colorful dial instead offers a new interpretation of time, and, dare I say, of punctuality. The Chromachron concept might not have replaced our conventional understanding of time, but it definitely challenged the standard notion of time and left a mark in wristwatch design. For these reasons and more, I've been obsessed with these weird little pieces and I've hunted them for years.