Cast no. 01 · 2026
Gauges for the night watch
Three dials that can be read by the light of the seam alone - no lamp, no guessing, in the heat of the lower level.
- Client
- The night watch, lower level
- Year
- 2026
- Material
- Brass, glass, blued steel
- Scope
- Three gauges, one log slate
The watch asked for gauges that would still read true at the end of a twelve-hour shift, in air hot enough to fog ordinary glass. We cut the dials in brass, blued the needles so they stand out against the glow, and set the danger arc as a strip of ember enamel that catches the light of the seam itself.
The slate that hangs beside them is ruled to match: one line per hour, three columns of figures and a single word for the joints.
