Fast Company reports that Alex Kalman brought the watches back into production through M&Co Labs, which the publication describes as Tibor Kalman’s design-product studio. The three designs were originally part of a larger series dating to the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the source characterizes the series as using the watch face to comment subtly on time itself.
The report identifies the designer as a graphic designer and former editor in chief of Colors magazine, and says he created album covers for The Talking Heads. It also describes the watches as a flagship product for M&Co. One design, “10-4-1,” removes every hour number except 10, 4 and 1; Fast Company also reports that it is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
According to Fast Company, “Onomatopoeia” substitutes some numbers with small pictograms, including a cat for 9 and an egg for 12, while “Askew” jumbles the numbers on its face. The supplied report does not establish pricing, detailed availability terms or a physical event location.