Published on 11/30/2006
Tian Harlan, a man who had a brilliant mind that combined both art and science seamlessly, created the Chromachron back in 1971, hoping that time was visualized with less rigidity. The Chromachron consists of a rotating disk with a pie-shaped cutout that revolves over different colored zones which represented the hour. Telling the time is less precise this way, but it does come with a coolness factor that square people just don't understand. Unfortunately, the Chromachron concept never really caught on - but Tian Harlan's spirit of alternate time telling still lives on today with the wide variety of selected funky watches. Whatever it is, he certainly was a man ahead of his time in more ways than one.