Orbital Decay watch uses single 'hand' to show hours & minutes

Design submitted by Peter from the UK.

Peter says: I was trying to think of a very simple and intuitive way of showing the time with essential a digital “one handed analogue” type of time telling format. The easiest way it seemed to do this is to have a hand moving in two directions, rotationally for one part of the time telling and towards and away from the pivot for the other. I soon realised after looking at one of my older designs “Tri-Ripple” that the most intuitive way of doing this is an expanding orbit around the pivot point. Like a satellite slowly moving slowly away from the object its orbiting.

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Maori watch from a series of ethnic designs.

Design submitted by Yatin from India.

Yatin says: Basically, I am a tattoo artist and designing is my passion one fine morning one of my friend Hemant came to me with this design challenge and we both sat together and studied the the designed by various artist and decided to create watch representing the culture of different countries their traditional designs.

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Chronicle analogue ninja watch design

Design submitted by Firdaus from Malaysia.

Firdaus says: Dated back in 2011, I designed this watch but hesitated to submit it to the TFJDS blog. I was afraid it might look quite similar to Uzumaki concept design. Recently during digging some old files in my computer, I stumbled upon this design and thought to give it a chance and submit it this time considering it doesn’t actually look similar to realized version of Uzumaki.

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