Charnière

Charnière turns iPhone Duo into a pocket watch. Close your Duo and the cover becomes the watch's lid: engraved metal, lacquer or stone, cut to the cover's own shape, with your initials in a cartouche and a crystal window onto the dial. The hinge knuckles sit on the real hinge, and the camera is set like a jewel. Open it and one dial lies across both halves, hinged through 12 and 6 like the phone it is on. Fold it like a book and each half takes the light differently. The hinge is the crown. Stand the phone in laptop pose and tilt the screen to wind a seal, from 5 to 120 minutes, one detent at a time. Close the phone and the time is sealed: the lid counts it down. Open early and, after five seconds of grace, the seal breaks. Close it again to reseal. Every kept seal joins your ledger. Eight Maisons, each drawn entirely in code, with its own hands, numerals and sound: - Titane:…