If you had ?Eight-Day Travel Alarm Clock with Vintage Movement? on your Hodinkee limited edition bingo card, well, you just hit it big. In what on the surface seems like a surprising move (but after a little reflection, is actually a great fit) our friends at Hodinkee have released a very limited, very cool, retro inspired mechanical clock as their latest limited edition. It’s a really nice looking product, and completely unlike anything else on the market right now, so let?s jump right in to the Hodinkee Eight-Day Travel Clock.

Hodinkee Eight-Day Travel Clock

Case Material: PVD coated stainless steel
Dial: Gray
Dimensions: 4.5 inches long; 2.5 inches wide; 1.2 inches thick                     
Movement: Vintage Pontifa 8 day movement Price: $5,900
Reference Number: n/a
Expected Release: Available now

The travel clocks that inspired this edition were once fairly common among frequent travelers in the first half of the 20th century. The first travel boom was of course well before the age of the cell phone and other passive methods of timetelling, so a travel clock with an extended power reserve that lasted for roughly a week would have been incredibly useful to throw in with your luggage. As a bonus, these clocks were often fitted with alarms, and designed to be portable, often by folding in on themselves. 

Hodinkee?s take on these classic clocks is contemporary in its execution but inextricably tied to the past – there?s a roma...