It takes a lot for me to be absolutely smitten by an object, but this is it. Marc Newson, in collaboration with Hodinkee, sought out hard-to-find craftsmen to create this stunning, tactile, ultra-designed hourglass. If that sounds frivolous to you, I'd ask you not to pre-judge, and just watch why and how they created it:
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The Hourglass from Ikepod on Vimeo.
Both nice projects, in the Ikepod video, final filling hole seal is a resin?
This is a revived project. He originally did this for Ikepod.