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Designer's Prize for ISPO Member

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh presented a clock to Brian G. Blatchford MBE, winner of the 1976 Duke of Edinburgh’s Designer’s Prize, at a special ceremony for the 1977 Design Council Award winners at the Eden Court Theatre, Invemess on 27 May. Mr. Blatchford was awarded the 1976 Duke of Edinburgh’s Designer’s Prize for the design of the British Modular Assembly Prosthesis. Unlike Design Council Awards which go to the manufacturer, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Designer’s Prize is given to the designer of the product considered to be the most outstanding of all the Design Council Awards in any one year. Winners of the prize are invited to design or commission a product of their own choosing. Mr. Blatchford commissioned the design of his clock with a mechanism based on the principle of the “Mysterious Circulator” devised by Johann Andreas Schmidt, a Master Clockmaker captured by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen. Mounted in an elegant black chrome plated brass case, the single hand hard gold plated circulator pivots on a pair of ball races fitted to a pierced titanium dial. A blue oxidised titanium strip sepwating the clock base from the main body contrasts pleasantly with the deep lustre of the clock body. Aptly described as the Mysterious Circulator, there ‘is no visible mechanism to move the single hand. In fact, well known horologist David Evans of Birmingham Polytechnic Horology Department, has adapted a production watch mechanism to motivate the hand. Powered by a tiny mercury long life