The venerable flip clock has become an outsized part of timekeeping culture that belies the simplicity of its mechanism. People collect and restore the electromechanical timepieces with devotion, and ...

Remigio Solari, whose family had been making clocks in Northern Italy since 1725, had one of the most profound yet lesser-known effects on travel and timekeeping when he came up with the idea for the ...

Flip Clock turns your iPhone into a retro-style timepiece. The $1 download mimics the old fashioned analog-digital clocks with flipping, plastic-card numbers (as seen waking up Marty McFly in the ...

TWIST AND SHOUT: Our guess is you’ve never laid eyes on a timepiece quite like this. The Flip Clock by Kikkerland is a steel contraption with rubber feet, swinging legs and plastic numbers that rotate ...

Many of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are entirely built from scratch, or perhaps reuse an unusual display type. But sometimes, an old clock is just perfect as it is, and only needs a bit of ...

Before LCDs and LEDs became cheap enough to add to nearly any device, mechanical flap displays were used in large-scale signage and bedside alarm clocks for improved legibility. Shinsaku Hiura has ...