There?s a whole category of watches that I have come to genuinely love that I think can be fairly described as highly impractical art objects that also tell time. I wrote about one quite extensively here, and if you follow me on Instagram or have chatted with me in real life or in the Worn & Wound+ Slack community (which, to be fair, is technically ?real life?) you know that I gravitate more and more toward the avant-garde, and love challenging designs that try to break what a watch even is. The new limited edition regulator from Louis Erard fits into this category nicely, and indeed was made in partnership with a Swiss abstract artist with a reputation for this type of challenging work. The new Le Régulateur Louis Erard x Olivier Mosset is perhaps the brand?s most purely abstract creation yet. 
Let?s start with the obvious question: how do you tell the time on this thing" This is not an unreasonable query – many who have encountered this watch on Louis Erard?s Instagram feed since its unveiling on Tuesday morning have been confused enough to send their question into the void. I won?t say it?s ?simple? because even I have to admit that telling the time on this thing is probably difficult in a pinch, but the idea is straightforward. It?s a regulator, with the top hand reading the hours, the middle the minutes, and the bottom the seconds. But the task of actually reading the time is intentionally (I?m assuming) made more challenging for a few reason...