The hands appear to be moving through invisible means, suspended in the middle of the fully transparent dial — a reference to the horological tradition of mystery clocks and watches.

A patent has been awarded on the movement, which utilizes an innovative mechanism to adapt the mystery time display for a quartz watch without a stabilizing central axis.

Turn the watch over and the immediate shock of seeing the hands proceed anti-clockwise is undercut by the inescapable logic of it — time being kept as precisely and as impeccably as we’ve ever known, but told in a fundamentally unfamiliar way.