Brand: Timex
Model: Timex Mercury
Range: Timex Color Flicks
Type: Mystery Dial Watch
Designer: Pakter Krauss
Reference: 16058
Caliber: M24 (Manual Wind)
Year: 1977
Dial Code: 16058 02477
Lug width: 18mm
Case: chrome plated
Dial: Blue, Mystery Dial
Case: Chrome plated over base metal
Complication: Manual wind. Sweeping seconds hand. Mystery dial

Created by design studio Pakter Krauss, the Timex Color Flicks range uses mystery dial techniques to create a fun and unusual set of watches. This blue dial piece uses a transparent perspex disc containing blue blocks of color that rotates to change the colors underneath. The crystal is perspex, high domed with a faceted edge. This provides room for the mystery dial to turn and hides the edge of the disc. This is a feature missing from the Todd Snyder reissued watch which used a plain domed crystal showing the disc and in my opinion, spoiling the effect.

The case is chrome plated base metal. The dial has colored blocks with black printed markers at 12 3 6 & 9. This makes reading the time more difficult than with a standard watch. This is the largest model of the Pakter Krauss Color Flicks.