Should you accidentally (or on purpose) move any of the balls out of place and break the bond between it and the magnet, the ball will just float around inside the groove – but never fall out – while with a flick of the wrist, they snap right back into their place as the magnets are amply powerful to catch them. Inside the Eone Bradley is a Swiss quartz movement that has been modified in a way so that it comprises two small but rather powerful magnets that carry the two balls around their course. To tell the minutes and hours, two small metallic balls function as the hands of the watch, with the minute ball situated on the top of the watch, while the hour indicator is a ball in a groove cut into the profile of the titanium case. This allows those with visual impairments to reach to the timepiece and determine the location of the metallic balls by touch, and hence tell the time with relative ease.
To accomplish that, the Eone Bradley uses an open dial – it is a watch without a sapphire crystal or watch hands in the traditional sense – allowing the wearer to touch the indices. Eone says that Bradley was the inspiration for the Eone Bradley timepiece and that they have worked together with him and others with visual impairments to create a timepiece that allowed them to easily tell the time. Named after Bradley Snyder, an ex-naval officer who lost his eyesight in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2011 and who, proving his incredible power of will, went on to compete in and win gold and silver medals in swimming at the 2012 Paralympics in London. Since the Bradley doesn’t require eyesight to tell time, Eone likes to call it a timepiece and not a watch – but no matter what we call it, the Eone Bradley is a great alternative for those looking for something that goes beyond your run-of-the-mill fashion watch. The Eone Bradley watch (as I just recently learned, pronounced as the letter “e” and the number 1) was originally designed to accommodate both sighted and vision impaired users equally.
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