And as for the price? “It feels like you’re holding $40,000,” he said, reluctantly relinquishing it.
Online, he found a considerably less expensive option: the RabLabs Cele clock, made of a slice of agate. “I love stones, crystals and gems,” he said, and “this is a sculptural object that would look great on your night stand, as opposed to a piece of plastic.”
And the QwlockTwo Touch received high marks for its deceptive simplicity. “It’s fantastic how they are able to figure out how to arrange the letters in those columns so they spell everything out,” Mr. Buzzetta said. “That’s a complex layout, but when you look at it, it seems so simple in its design.”
An added bonus, he noted, was the light it emits: bright enough to read the time in the dark, but not so bright as to disrupt your sleep.
Another good option for the light-averse, he suggested, was the Kikkerland block clock, an “unobtrusive” plain wood block that doesn’t show the time unless you clap. “If it’s on a stack of books on your night stand or desktop,” Mr. Buzzetta said, “you don’t know what it is.”
But would you really be willing to clap whenever you needed to check the time, something that calls up images of the much-parodied commercials for the Clapper?
Mr. Buzzetta paused and then answered decisively: “I would clap.”
