The Lexon Around Clock, by designer Anthony Dickens makes the three arm traditional timepiece into a much more simple dial: this is an analogue clock showing time by the cylinder rotation and use the red wire to identify time.

At a size of 11 x 5.5cm, the Anthony Dickens design is available in both black and white. Priced at $45, this is the perfect inexpensive gift for your friends!

The Effect:

A few minutes before the hour a number rolls down a track and a bell sounds. On the hour a cuckoo sounds and a new number indicating the hour appears at the right end of a row of numbers.

The Mechanism:

Cuckinetic is a true timepiece, run by an AC synchronous motor, like those in an ordinary electric clock. The dial of Cuckinetic is a row of cylinders that roll on an upper and lower track.

Mounted on each cylinder is a weighted wafer bearing a number. As the cylinders roll, the number remains upright and legible.

The art of contemporary living is summed up in this luxurious clock from Matthew Norman with its mechanical movement housed in a case of precious wood.

Movement is an 8 day power reserve caliber with 18 jewels, beating at 18,000 bph, with sprung balance escapement on incablocs, a jewelled pallet with ruby pallet-stones, skeletonized gilded brass plates, steel arbors and pinions, and gilded wheels.

Require a winding key. The case, done in Macassar ebony, is inlaid with pear wood, the glass is mineral. It measures 195mm X 195mm x 90mm.