MCT Dōdekal One, a new mechanical-digital display

Occasionally you see a watch that does something completely different. This is the area of “nouvelle horlogerie,” and Dōdekal One D110 by MCT, Manufacture Contemporaine du Temps, is the perfect example. The watch has a large digital hours display right at the centre, with the looks of the classic luminous digit that was a feature…

A new way of displaying the time: rotating prisms

This was something that I was thinking about a few months back, but at that time I was thinking about a watch that could change colour by means of a dial formed of rotating triangular-section prisms. As a prism has three faces, if you want to use a block of prisms to display a number,…