But enough about grammar and scientific facts, let’s get to some MB&F facts. So yes, if the Octopod vaguely reminds you of yet another clock that MB&F made in partnership with Switzerland’s revered clock maker, L’Epée 1839, you would be thinking about the Arachnophobia.

The clock being announced today is, of course, fashioned to look like a sea dwelling cephalopod with, again, eight articulating limbs to pose the creature as your heart desires. Its domed head bears its time keeping mechanisms.

The level-up on MB&F’s part with the Octopod is that it’s clear dome head actually is able to move in a 360-degree motion, in all directions. But this it manages while keeping the clock’s display, always in a readable plane.

However, here’s the kicker, and the most mind-boggling quality about the Octopod: It is that the going train’s regulating organ, on this particular clock, is part of the minute hand of the clock. Making the clock — albeit not in the traditional sense — a tourbillon of sorts.

Now, the Octopod will be produced in three variations: black PVD, blue PVD, and palladium (silver). 50 pieces per type will be made.

Technical Specifications: MB&F Octopod

Movement

L’Epée in-house designed and manufactured manual winding movement; hours and minutes, with regulating organ mounted on minute hand; 192-hour power reserve.

Spherical Body

Two Polycarbonate hemispheres; legs and frame made of stainless steel, nickel and palladium plated brass.