Compass Road
“Think of your journey through mortality as a sequence of valid movies and the pain is ameliorated. Forget the tedious 60-minute division of the lecture hall or dead television (quartered by adverts): arrange just enough markers for the 90-minute slots of Golden Age cinema. And then it’s only a question of nominating the eight guides, culture-figures who will dominate your thoughts (and reveries) for as long as you stay upright. The road is endless, you aren’t.” Iain Sinclair 2010
Compass Road was designed with author Iain Sinclair. The names of eight writers and visionaries are positioned around the dial, each according to their geographic link with London. A pattern on the hour disk causes names to fade in and out of view as the time passes, a visual expression of Sinclair’s interest in uncovering forgotten layers of the city’s history.
The watch hands and typography pay tribute to the British road signage system designed by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir and also makes a link to Sinclair's "London Orbital" book, which documented his walk around the M25 motorway which encircles London.
This watch is available in an edition of 100 pieces, each watch numbered on the caseback and comes with an insert card signed by both Iain Sinclair and Crispin Jones.
The table below shows the available numbes (table updates daily)
Each watch comes in a MJW presentation box with a specially commissioned artwork by Hannah Davies. Inside the box you'll find the guarantee card - every watch is guaranteed for 12 months from the date of purchase against any original manufacturing defect.
Specifications:
Case: Stainless steel
Strap: Black leather with undyed white stitching
Width (3 o'clock to 9 o'clock): 37mm
Height (from lug to lug): 46mm
Mechanism: Single jewel quartz mechanism
Waterproof: 5ATM
Guarantee: 12 months
Biography
Iain Sinclair has lived in Hackney since 1969. After a few years as a gardener in Limehouse, white-line painter on Hackney Marshes, ullage cellar labourer in Truman's brewery in Brick Lane, he started a small press, publishing books of poetry which included ‘Lud Heat’ (one of the inspirations for Peter Ackroyd's ‘Hawksmoor’). Novels from mainstream presses followed. ‘Downriver’ was the winner of the James Tait Black Prize and the Encore Aware. ‘Lights Out for the Territory’ was a well-received account of a series of pyschogeographic explorations of London. ‘London Orbital’, the documentation of a walk around the M25, London's motorway hoop, was the inspiration for the watch designed for Mr Jones. Sinclair's most recent book is ‘Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire’, which as well as being BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week succeeded in getting the author banned from Stoke Newington Library, for the crime of being critical of Olympic developments in the Lower Lea Valley.
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