Designer Andreas Dober brings the Catena Wall Clock produced by Anthologie Quartett, still seems familiar in its analog mechanical nature.
The Catena — named after the Latin word for chain — rotates a vertical bicycle chain with attached brass numbers in a clockwise direction. At the top of every hour the time appears at the zenith of the rotation. Between hours you can eyeball the amount of chain between numbers and get a surprisingly accurate estimate of the time. In the above clock photo, for example, it is approximately 11h:05m.