Ludovic Ballouard

Upside Down A one-idea watch carried out with total seriousness. There is no hour hand: twelve numerals sit around the dial and eleven of them are always upside down. Only the current hour reads the right way up, and when the hour changes it flips back over while the next one turns upright in an instant. A central hand shows the minutes and a small seconds sits at six. Ballouard spent seven years at F.P. Journe, working on the Sonnerie Souveraine, before going independent, and the Upside Down shows how a single maker can build a whole new display around a joke and make it mechanically sound.