Your entire day in symbolsHere Comes The Sun & Moon
This
special edition Mr. Jones Sun & Moon has been designed by New York
illustrator Kirsten Ulve, “I like the notion of doing away with specific
time telling, and embracing a more relaxed attitude. Symbols indicate
the general time: dreamy unicorn sightings in the morning, the universal
quest for cheese in the day, then some heavy drinking in the evening,
followed by a bump in the night and monsters in the wee hours. Typical
day kind of stuff without the need for those bothersome numbers."
The
crescent shaped sky on the dial represents 12 hours, with the hours
running from left to right: When the sun is next to the leftmost marker
the time is 6am. The sun slowly climbs in the sky until it reaches the
apex of the crescent, at which point the time is midday. The sun then
gradually descends until it reaches the right hand marker at 6pm. After
6pm the Sun ‘sets’ and disappears from view, meanwhile the Moon ‘rises’
on the left. The position of the Moon in the sky therefore shows the
hours from 6pm until 6am. The minutes are display in the center of the
dial and these run in the conventional way, so each marker on this dial
corresponds to five minutes.
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Sun
and Moon watches were first produced in Britain in the late 1600s
during a period of experimentation with the watch face and how to
represent the time. Eventually, following this period of experimentation
the concentric hour and minute hands became established as the
universal standard.
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About Mr. Jones:
Mr Jones Watches
is the cult watch brand from London. They believe that a watch should
do more than just tell the time: it should make you think, start a
conversation or simply make you smile.
About the artist:
Kirsten
Ulve is a New York City based illustrator and designer. She blends
crisp conceptual design with a graceful fashion sensibility. She lives
in Manhattan with her husband and two black kitties Romulus and Remus.
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