A 30 cm disc of solid travertine with three walnut hands turning on a brass spindle, and a concealed warm light behind it that lifts the whole clock off the wall at night. There are no numerals and no printed face. Four small pits in the stone mark the quarters and that is all the help you get.
It is the only piece here that is not a light fitting, and it earns its place next to them because it is made the same way from the same materials. In a room already carrying travertine lighting it reads as part of the set rather than as a clock someone hung up.
Where it earns its place
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Kitchens. The one room where a clock still gets looked at, and the halo makes it legible from across an open plan space.
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Above a sideboard or a mantel. Big enough at 30 cm to hold a wall on its own.
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Home offices. Quiet, unbranded and free of numbers, so it tells the time without shouting it.
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Alongside the wall lights. Same stone, same walnut, same warm halo as the Windermere disc. They were made to sit together.
Real stone, so no two are the same
A 30 cm face is the widest single piece of travertine in the whole range, so the banding, the seams and the open pores are all on show at full size. The walnut hands have their own grain. Yours will not match the photographs, and on an object this plain that variation is doing most of the work.
Putting it up
Solid stone at 30 cm across is heavy, so fix it into something structural rather than into plasterboard alone. The backlight is a separate matter from the movement: it needs a power supply, so plan for a spur behind the clock or accept a visible lead. Agree that with an electrician before you commit to a position, because there is no way to add it neatly afterwards.
