The watches blow are some of Projects’ first entries into the world of timepieces. Graves’ square watch has its origins in the now “classic” Oh Watch. Richard Meier draws from his use of planes and lighting while Stanley Tigerman “plays” on time with his use of orange and teal elliptical hands.

Project’s original line of “Building Timepieces” can be seen here.

he Figure 5 in Gold (left)
The design of this watch is adapted from Charles Demuth’s (American, 1883–1935) vibrant painting The Figure 5 in Gold (1928). The dynamic study refers both to Demuth’s friend, the poet William Carlos Williams, and his poem “The Great Figure,” which begins: “Among the rain/and lights/I saw the figure 5/in gold/on a red/firetruck.” In the center of the composition are three figure 5’s, appearing to either recede or rush forward, depending on the eye of the viewer. The painting emanates energy, motion, and speed, qualities encapsulated by a powerful, commanding firetruck as well as by Williams himself, a boisterous extrovert and respected friend and adviser to the art world. (Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949, 49.59.1).

Time Flies - Right
The Egyptians used the hieroglyphic script for nearly 3500 years, from about 3100 b.c. until the end of the third century a.d. Some hieroglyphs were simplified images or pictures, called ideograms, which were symbols for the objects they looked like. For example, a wavy line meant “water.” The Egyptians also used hieroglyphs phonetically, stringing together the sound of the symbols without their original meaning. An equivalent in English would be to spell “belief” with pictures of a bee and a leaf. It is possible to construct riddles using hieroglyphs in this manner. Because English and ancient Egyptian are not from the same language family, some sounds used by the Egyptians do not exist in our alphabet, and some of our sounds do not exist in Egyptian. 

Time Flies, designed for The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, is based upon Egyptian Hieroglyphics dating back to 3100 BC. Copper dial and black graphics.

Reading clockwise, the hieroglyphs on this watch translate to “Time Flies.” The watch is stainless steel with a copper dial, and is water resistant to 100 feet. Out of production.