Color Theory-Inspired Time Pieces

Designers Rinat Aruh and Johan Liden of Aruliden design the captivating Blend Watch that tells time using the color theory. The timepiece boasts the designs of a traditional watch, except for one crucial detail -- it lacks the time-telling hands, altering the perception of the piece completely. The Blend Watch makes use of the subtractive color model to develop color compositions to tell time instead. This color model is essentially how pigments are created -- an example is the fusion of magenta, yellow, and cyan creating the color black. The watch uses this theory to construct blocks of color instead of relying on hands to tell time.

The watch does so using two sheets of transparent plastic pieces with a slight time and cuts hands out of them to emit the color compositions. It is then placed on a white face in the watch and the layered tinted sheets will showcase different hues. Every hour that passes creates colorful hues and when the two hands line up together, it reveals the white dial that is beneath.