There are a few places one might find a nice timepiece, and the dashboard of a car is probably the last place you’d expect to find one. Proof that fashion is indeed cyclical. In the middle of the 20th century, cars with a beautiful dashboard clock (the art deco-inspired one in the Mercedes-Benz Ponton comes to mind) were the height of luxury, then they fell out of favour some time in the 1980s. They may have been seen as archaic throwbacks, supplanted by functional but bland digital readouts on the centre console or instrument cluster.
It wasn’t until the mid to late 2000s that the analogue clock began reclaiming its rightful place on the dashboards of luxury cars. Notable examples include the Ghost-badged clock in the Rolls-Royce Ghost and the Breitling tourbillon you can have as an option on the Bentley Bentayga. Any luxury car worth its salt has an analogue clock these days, and while they’re all nice in their own right, some are more equal than others.
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