Cyclops Watch

The artwork is inspired by the image of the Cyclops from Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey (2026), an adaptation of Homer's poem. In Greek mythology, the Cyclopes were one-eyed giants, whose single eye was traditionally associated with a vision at once limited and intensely focused. In this blueprint, the Cyclops becomes a Horological Archetype: his eye is merged with a day/night indicator, its yellow and blue segments alternating within the circle much as an eyelid might open and close. His gaze is structured the same way a dial is, as a cycle rather than a fixed state.

The artwork is executed in watercolour and pencil. The Cyclops's face is formed from a texture of waves set within the circular case, while an ornamental meander along the bezel recalls the classical antiquity from which the figure originates. The moon phase indicator sits where the mouth would be: a crescent moon sinking into dark water turns the lower part of the dial into a kind of horizon, above which it rises, equating the watery element that produced the Cyclopes in myth with the celestial one governing the alternation of day and night.

The dial's composition reads as a portrait, yet it is built from functional components: the facial features remain, at the same time, indicators. The classical figure thus becomes both a decorative reference and a structural principle for constructing the watch, one in which the mythological and the technical are joined together.