Making the rounds this year on a couple of design-y gift guides is The Present, a clock designed by Booklyn-based creative firm m ss ng p eces. The clock automatically sets itself to the current calendar date when you insert two AA batteries and then takes a year to make an entire revolution as the single hand highlights colors associated with the passing season. An original run of the clock was successfully funded on Kickstarter last year, but the clock is now available to the general public through their website.

Designed by Jana Ferreira, the Moirée Clock has an abstract pointer generated from interference between two graphic patterns — the moirée effect indicates hour and quarter-hour.

Flat Time by designer Finn Magee is a poster of a digital alarm clock that is actually a functioning clock. Scroll down to see his other functional posters: Flat Sound (a speaker) and Flat Light (an LED light). Flat Time is available for pre-orderat AREAWARE.

Designed by Leo Chiu and Siu Man, the Sealed Watch has a face made of sealing wax. Choose from different colors of wax, then mix and match its case, hands, and strap."
$85.

Dave Hurban clearly feels the love for his iPod Nano - taking the unusual step of drilling holes in his arm, adn plugging the holes with four magnets to keep the iPod nano literally close at hand. Awesome!

Made in Sweden, this touchscreen watch is both simple and intuitive.
“Just tap the flat surface and the touch screen lights up, then swipe through the functions clock, alarm and timer.”
See it in action after the jump

Pebble is an e-paper watch that syncs with Android smartphones and iPhones and can be customized with apps and interchangeable faces (video). Engineer Eric Migicovksy and a small engineering and design team are preparing the watch for manufacture. They’re pre-selling Pebble on Kickstarter, and so far they have raised in excess of six million dollars (a new record for Kickstarter).
VIDEO HERE: http://vimeo.com/40128933

Perhaps you remember the QLOCKTWO Wall Clock that we wrote about a few years ago? Well, designers Biegert & Funk are back with a watch based on the same design. Instead of numbers, the QLOCKTWO W lights up with words to tell you what time it is. That’s right, it spells it out for you in plain English (or German). I love how it makes you pause for a moment to read what time it is.

The White & White Clock is designed by Vadim Kibardin and is meant to be a three-dimensional version of a traditional digital clock. We featured the original black and white incarnation years ago, but this new updated one is even more fantastic.

Remember those giant Swatch watches people hung on their walls? This is the modern version. “One size fits wall.”