Visitor Watch Co. is a brand that is unafraid to just be itself, totally unapologetically. Borrowing elements from calligraphy and pen design, as well as, with the new Duneshore Shallows, elements of fantasy, science-fiction, and heavy metal, the brand truly lives up to their ?Offbeat Timekeepers? branding. It?s rare to come across a watch that is so clearly designed by someone with a lot of other interests. As a watch enthusiast who himself has many other interests well outside the realm of watches, it?s gratifying to see someone incorporating all of the other ?stuff? that they?re into in a watch. A Visitor watch is, almost by definition, not going to be for everyone, but if the charm works on you, it?ll really work on you. 
I should point out, I really have no idea exactly what the specific design inspirations are behind the Duneshore Shallows, besides the calligraphy angle, which is well documented and something we?ll get to. But I kind of like that this watch invites the wearer to bring their own interpretation to it. Even though writing about watches and giving them a lot of thought is what we do here at Worn & Wound, it strikes me that we don?t often think of watches in this interpretive way – you?d never ask someone about the artistic statement of a Tudor Pelagos, for example. But there?s a quirkiness and a veiled mystery to the Duneshore Shallows that invites this kind of thinking. It?s a physical object that seems open to interpretation in the same wa...