Sure, Analog:Shift is a business built around the love of watches — mostly mechanical watches. But, in essence, it’s our love for timepieces and timekeeping in general that are the common themes throughout the items we procure. And that includes the love of clocks in general: pocket watches, travel clocks, and more. 

After all, in the couple hundred years before the First World War, personal timekeeping was all about the pocket watch, and before that, it was larger clocks that were front and center, horologically. We still believe a good clock — such as a classic travel model from the 1920s or 1930s — has a place in the watch lover’s collection.

This particular timepiece is an absurdly cool vintage belt clock from Cyma. And yes — you heard that right — we’re talking about a small mechanical clock that fits into a belt buckle and swings open so that you can read the time. 

Dating to the 1920s and designed in the Art Deco style, its sterling silver case measures 57.1mm x 27.9mm x 57.2mm with the timepiece itself measuring 26.9mm in diameter. Featuring a silvered dial with radium-filled ‘Arabic’ indices, a matching ‘spade’ handset, an inner ‘railroad’ minute track, and a sub-seconds display, it’s a gorgeous vestige of Roaring Twenties design.

And you can wear it!