Video: Itay Noy Watch with Map Dials
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is simply impossible not to love watches, and the designers convince us of this. Sometimes they create such masterpieces that you can only admire. And they simply cannot dislike, although not everyone puts design above convenience and comfort …
Perhaps, not all clocks will allow each of us to determine the exact time. For example, the watch offered by Itay Noy is definitely not created for children and people who are learning to tell the time by arrows. However, they have a lot of other advantages, and which ones you cannot immediately discern. Nowadays, after all, a lot of new ideas and trends appear, and it is not always possible to distinguish one from the other. But there is something about this watch that immediately makes us understand that it is far from being a toy. The thing is that the dials depict the main squares of the cities of the world, it is not for nothing that the collection of watches was named "City Square".
Here we can see Trafalgar Square in London, St. Peter's Square in Rome and the Columbus Circle in New York. But, as you might guess, these are not real images of the squares, but aerial and mapped ones. Maybe we won't immediately recognize the most famous squares in the world in these mini-maps, but the indigenous people of these cities and countries will surely see and understand everything right there and then.
In addition to the idea itself, which is certainly great, it is worth noting the design - the combination of a brown strap with green specks on the dial cannot be called a winning one. Although, in my opinion, there is a small minus - on such an original dial, the hands are a little lost, and it is not immediately possible to notice them. But this is only a minor flaw, and in general, the project is extremely successful.
Idea by designer Itay Noy
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