Saturday 25 February 2012

EleeNo Jekyll and Hyde

EleeNo are a Japanese watch design company that work on the principle of 'handless time', or designing watches without the use of hands in the normal way. This principle leads to many unusual designs, with many of them being of limited production. The EleeNo is under the umbrella of SeaHope (a distributor of unusual watches, who also design and sell their own watches). More details on the brand can be found at http://whichwatchtoday.blogspot.com/p/seahope-watches.html

The Jekyll & Hyde or (J&H) is one of the EleeNo designs from the 2000s with an unusual feature - 2 different ways of telling the time on the same dial.
In the black & grey mode, the dials rotate (hours in the middle, minutes on the outside) and can be read by looking where the fixed red line crosses the dial.
In the blue & grey mode, the numbers are fixed, and markers (hands) mode round (hours with a thick line and minutes with a narrower line).
The bezel of the watch rotates anticlockwise, and this allows the mode to be changed. It is possible to read the time when not fully set in one mode, but only if the red line on the black & grey mode is visible.
It is quite hard to read the blue & grey mode at some times due to difficulty seeing the markers when they cross, or are at the 3 and 9 positions where you need to switch between the two parts of the dial.
There is no model number or movement number shown on the watch itself.



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