One of the first unusual presentations was the wandering-hour clock, also called "floating hour dial" or "chronoscope," which became popular in the 17th century.
In just one hour dialling telephone numbers published on the internet, two reporters from Superwizjer spoke to dozens of traders willing to discuss a deal.
In 2000, Michel Parmigiani was asked by the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation, the arts branch of the Sandoz Family Foundation, to restore an early 19th-century yellow gold pocket watch with a floating hour dial by Perrin Frères, a watchmaking firm in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Busser's latest, the HM2, shows the time on one face with jumping hours and retrograde minutes (meaning that the hour dial advances instantaneously as the minute hand springs backward from 60 to zero).
Slide hour and minute dials until your alarm is set to the right time.
We see, for example, a rare clock from 17th-century Florence, Italy; it's rare because so few could be used elsewhere: the Papal States divided the day into four periods of six hours, so many of its clocks had 6-hour or 12-hour dials repeating the numbers 1 to 6.
Activists spend too many hours dialing Democratic politicians and angrily demanding impeachment votes, they say.
Romney and his team have spent the last 24 hours dialling down expectations of a victory.
Inside is Breitling's latest movement, Calibre B12, giving the watch a military-inspired 24-hour dial, a chronograph, a power reserve of 70 hours and chronometer-certified accuracy.
"Moreover," Mr. Stavisky said, "not having to spend countless hours dialing for dollars and hosting rubber chicken dinners enables a candidate to focus more on other priorities, such as talking to voters.
It had a 24-hour dial and could tell two timezones at once.
