Japanese studio Nendo has designed a fractional, boxy clock with hands that completes its square form just twice per day.
The Cubic Clock takes the form of a solid, brushed-aluminium cube that appears to sit at a slant, balanced on one of its corners, due to its sliced-off tip.
Designed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of luxury watch retailer The Hour Glass, the clock aims to "blur the lines between art, design and watches".
The clock only "reveals its true form" twice per day ? at midday (12:00 pm) and midnight (12:00 am).
These are the times when the long and the short hands vertically align with each other, and with the cube itself, to complete the clock's shape.
Throughout the rest of the day, the angular hands overlap one another 22 times.
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