The Gondola is one of 55 one-off watches London jeweler Andrew Grima designed for Omega in 1969. The hands hide behind a slab of cut gemstone set into a cuff of textured gold, so you read the time through the stone, if you can read it at all. Grima sketched these on bar mats and hotel menus, then handed the impossible cuts to craftsmen who’d never tried them.

Fifty years on, the Gondola is still in no rush. While modern timepieces track our macros and steps and feed us emails, this one just feels a little more lost at sea. You could try to guess the time, but it’d only be a ballpark. And that lack of optimization feels like a freshwater breeze.