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Nostromo: The $15k DIY luxury desk clock designed to get you invested

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If you've ever bought a clock worth north of US$15,000 and wished that it were more like a piece of flatpack furniture, then MB&F and Maison Alcée feel your pain. The result is the Nostromo, a haute horlogie clock you put together yourself.

Top-end timepieces are not only works of art, but also feats of great craftsmanship. The purpose of such objects isn't just to display wealth, status, or beauty, it's to showcase what true master artisans can achieve with their brains and hands.

The fly in the upmarket ointment is that it's remarkably easy to overlook that effort. You swipe your card, walk away with a masterpiece, only to put it on a shelf to admire but never to truly appreciate what has gone into creating it.

The Nostromo is an attempt to square this circle by borrowing a psychological trick from the opposite end of the market. Flatpack...

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