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A New Now
One hand.
One year.
One moment.
Welcome to a new way of seeing time.
What is The Present?
The Present is a timepiece with a single hand that takes one full year to complete a circle. It shows where you are in the cycle of life—revealing time as calm, continuous rhythm of the natural world.
What does it do?
It shifts your perspective. Instead of tracking time as something to spend or lose, The Present helps you see it as something to move within—spacious, steady, and always unfolding.
Why should I care?
Because placing The Present in your home restores something you've lost. It's a way to see time as spacious, grounded, and whole. It doesn’t ask for your attention. It changes what attention feels like.
Measuring The Moment
Now
Day
Moon
Year
Why should I care?
The Time You’re Missing
Since 2012, people in 43 countries have shared how living with The Present changes the way they feel about time itself — bringing a sense of peace, presence, and connection they didn’t know was possible.
See the Whole Story of Time
Most clocks show seconds. The Present shows the seasons. The shift in scale helps you see yourself as a part of time, not racing against it.
What It Feels Like to Live with The Present
Owners say it brings a quiet sense of peace, connection, and wonder. It changes how you feel about time itself. Not by making you work at it but just by being there.
Most clocks tell you what time it is.
The Present shows you what time feels like.
It gently reveals the slower rhythm hidden beneath the rush waiting to be seen.
A softer rhythm.
A broader horizon.
A return to seeing time as gift.
The Experience
"A 21st century Walden."
With over nine thousand units shipped to forty-three countries worldwide, we invite you to learn more about The Present directly from its owners.
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About
I wanted to see time differently.
Seconds, minutes, and hours are useful, but they leave something out. The natural world has its own rhythms but we can only catch fragments of it, never the whole picture.
So I made The Present.
Since 2012, thousands have welcomed it into their homes to reveal the time they've been missing.
Scott Thrift
