Needs to be updated for Leopard. Doesn't appear to be functioning ):

I can only say: Bravo!

This is an awesome looking clock. I'd strap one to my wrist if I could... I'm getting an issue on OS X though. Twice a minute it's reporting start times to console.log. It's very messy... it looks like it might be left over debug stuff still running. Can this be eliminated? Here's an example:

2007-03-14 20:24:00.843 Yahoo! Widget Engine[404] [Retrograde3v1.1.widget] start(): Item 0 already running via start()
2007-03-14 20:24:00.844 Yahoo! Widget Engine[404] [Retrograde3v1.1.widget] start(): Item 1 already running via start()
2007-03-14 20:25:00.843 Yahoo! Widget Engine[404] [Retrograde3v1.1.widget] start(): Item 0 already running via start()

TIA

Nice job. i wish it had an alarm and you could change the size.

I really love your work and designs. Please contact me at 'widgets@revenution.com' to discuss possible commercial work. Thank you.

Bravo et merci !

Congratulations on Widget Spotlight, it is well deserved. The graphics are beautifully done and the presentation is both unique and easily read (a difficult combination).

I wish there was a way to feedback directly to the author instead of this, but I have made some personal modifications (to shade the black to other colors to blend better with my personal desktop) and I would love to offer them to Mr. Izawa for his acceptance or rejection.
Incidently, as form follows function, the code is as nicely written as the widget is beautiful.
Widgets@Ladner.cc

Really nice clock, with nice visuals and display. Few suggestions:
1) It will be nice to reduce the size of widget
2) Increase the size of date and time, in order to reduce the overall size, probably by making Day/Night and Moon phase features optional and on the periphery of the widget, rather than inside.

As a developer.. well done this has got to be the best if seen in a long time must have took ages to do. well don on the widget spotlight . Your dad would be proud.

XX

Looks stunning and is a refreshing change from other analog clocks. The large selection of different materials, reflections and other options make this one of the best clocks on offer. The author's dedication to users is a prime example to other developers.

This is the coolest widget ever. I actually replaced one of the widgets I've made that was on my own desktop with this. I just wish it were a little sharper when scaled down below 50%...

's too bad my desktop realisate is currently so full already...

Beautiful job! Just when I thought clocks had been done to death, I came across something truly unique. The style and the attention to detail are remarkable.

great work, very detailed. (alarm woulth be nice)

My dad pulled a clock from the cockpit of a downed US airplane when he was serving in WWII (on Guadalcanal). It is a 24 hour black clock whose case looks a lot like this widget.
So I get to see the time, and remember Dad too!

This is a great widget i use it all the time. It could be made better if it had an alarm clock as well

This is a great widget, took me a moment to figure out how to read it but I'm a bit slow ;) It has a great look and is very functional. Excellent.

والله البرنامج رووووووعه ومن الصوره أنه تقووم بوظائف كثييييييره بااااااااايو :)

Aaargh. I forgot to add a rating with my last comment. This widget deserves 5 out of 4 stars!

A very intuitive widget! It is plain to see that some hard thinking went into this widget! If it had an alarm system to go along with it (meaning the ability to have multiple alarms like the Digital Clock widget) I could not give it enough Konfabulator stars! ! !

I am looking forward to the next version of this widget with great anticipation!

Three Words To Describe This: THIS WIDGET ROCKS!!!

Exacly What I Was Looking For. Only Beaten By iPod Player 5

This is a wonderful clock! I LOVE IT! You really have a wonderful talent!!! Thank You for sharing with us & especially those, like myself, who can't create something, let-alone something so nice!!!!!

Somebody was thinking!

I don't speak english. cool!!!

What a kick ass widget. I love it. Glad it's a spotlight widget.

Groovy! Well worth being picked for the Widget Spotlight.

its neat, but tooo big. if i make it smaller in the prefs then its is no longer possible to read the text. but either way it looks amazingly good.

Simply awesome! I wish I had a wristwatch like this...

Very very nice!!!

Beautiful widget. So many options for style.. KUDOS!

Looks Gorgeous, only problem is the cpu it uses. I'd love to see it more mechanical as well, moving back at the end of the hour, etc. What update do you run it on? I'm doing every 10 seconds.

Love it. But it would be more useful (which is always good) if it had an alarm.

Simply gorgeous. Could use some more options but really it is just a pleasure to look at anyway.

really beautiful...I find myself staring at it just to watch it work. . You'll get the 4th star once you give me the ability to have it display a different time zone or at least skew it plus or minus hours from my local time.

Another option that would be nice would be to be able to display it with just a thin bezel around the lens - not the larger bezel with screws.

I love this widget.

Really excellent. Now I need one of these for weather and one that combines wifi, cpu, memory and disk. Then I could have my little rack of instruments.

Well done.

It's really nice having a date indicator, but the numbers are too small for most sizes! Could there be an option to enable a larger date display that takes up the entire space of the circle inside the hour numbers? Would be much appreciated.

You win, hands down, in the "virtual machine" widgets category! Incredible clock!

New version 1.0.3 can be downloaded from his website:
http://izappy.web.infoseek.co.jp/kwidgets.htm

Updating for 1.0.2 -- still fantastic .. the new items make it so much cooler.
Want to mention (in case others had same user error issue) ... I thought the day/night thing rotated like in a G-father clock. I didn't even notice the needle until today ... might want to make it a little more noticable?

I'm speachless.......damn, that's gorgeous.
Yeah...how about a calendar, wich "SteveK" was asking for, and a sort of "What To do" thingie, or a "Wireless Lan" display with this design :-)

Amazing... you are real genius to design something like this

Love this widget! I'm thinking of building a real one.
is there or will be a way for the widget to remember where it was the last time it was on my desktop? Please, this is important to me as my widgets are sorted around the desktop in a special order.

Thanks,
Ori...

Amazing clock. Can't you just add a seconds update interval setting, cause I'd prefer to update the seconds hand every 5 sec for example, but to reduce the CPU usage.

Hey ! v1.0.2 available also, this gets better and better ! Still needs extra animation for the hands as a few folks have stated before...

This is the best clock I've seen widget or not. Using it took a bit of getting used to, but after a couple of days I have no problem - it's actually easier to use.

My compliments Izawa-shi.

Dude... Four stars totally if there was a very smooth mechanical animation for transition for -hours- at least and the day to night thingy needs to do the same.. the minutes would be a big bonus as would the seconds. It is so cool mechanically but it was a let down to see the hour hand just magically appear down at the bottom. It -is- I suppose more precise because of that.. but precision is not necessary.

I Like iT, I like the size control

Completely useless but brilliant. I've got it sitting in the middle of my desktop.
BUT...It seems so beautifully mechanical, yet at the end of each minute and hour the hands just magically POP back to their starting points. It would be great if they could be seen to somehow cycle or bounce back.

Tis is a really cool looking widget. It is one of the better designed widgets on the site. Very innovative in capturing the metaphor of an aircraft-type instrument. The date would be nice, but I am very satisfied with the result.

Absolutely awesome ... running in my Mac at home and XP Laptop at work ... fantastic work!!!! This is the beginning of a series?

I looked at the source "inspiration hardware, and frankly, you went one better. It's a bit of a CPU hog, but then again, it gives back enormous satisfaction to see it run. I'd like to see a series of widgets along these lines for system monitoring -- memory, CPU consumption, disk space, calendar, wifi activity, and especially network throughput (I know that's a rough one, especially cross-platform.) Anyway, my complements, and my vote, such as it is, for the most aesthetically pleasing widget ever.

Original, functional, and oh so beautiful. Only needs a tweak to make the day/night function work correctly (v1.0.1 doesn't fix the problem). A nice piece of work.

Awesome! Especially Sand Black with Type B reflection. Not really useful as a clock, but who really cares ? Five stars! Well, actually, I've tried 7 clocks, but I just cannot remove Retrograde3 from my desktop!

8 stars: each of my * is worth 2, here: absolutely amazing widget.
Is is perfectly original, and functional, and, well, beautiful.
This is creation at its best: how often do we not trace existing schemes, or do we not extrapolate from common reality and achievments our own work?
Retrograde3 reveals inductive thinking, rather than deductive: the author is a creative artist.
I repeat my enthusiasm: this widget is outstanding.

Excellent:
One suggestion: Can you have an option to eliminate the frame?
It's attractive, but I'd really like to save the screen real estate.

I love this style!

Really Love this widget really innovative
Would love to see the date on it also.

これは素晴らしい！
こんなクールな時計待ってました！

Am I the only one to notice this? Everyone else seems to have given it 4 stars or no rating at all.

I'd love to give this 4 stars, but it makes my CPU sit on 10% constantly. Would be a wonderful widget otherwise, I'd like to run it all the time.

Thanks for the comment.
The watch of "Opus 5" of Harry Winston became the hint of this clock widget.
Opus 5: http://www.opus5.ch/

An amazing widget. I was curious... i'm begining to develop widgets, and I was wondering how you managed to rotate the angle of the hands and the number wheel. That's awesome.

Wicked design! Is it based on any real world counterparts? I would kill for a watch like this... if not patent it and manufacture your own man.. brilliant.

Fantastic ! It would be REALLY nice if the indicator "hands" were animated on their "return", ie seconds from 60 to 0, rather than "snapping" back... apart from that, I LOVE IT !

Gorgeous graphic! Very neat design.

Terrible!!!

Gorgeous! I love it! Is this based on a real watch? Can you give info on where to see it, if it is?

Smart Design...

Brilliant!

Very nice design!! Only thing I really miss is an alarm functions ;)

Hmm, why do Japanese characters never survive in comments?

Woah, I'm smitten! Otsukaresama desu. ???????
I second the CPU usage comment though.

awsome and original...realy! :)

amazing, i love it!

It's Coooooool!
Very Nice
ARIGATO! ありがとー！

A way to reduce cpu usage would be nice. Maybe you could have a user-adjustable update interval for the hands or something.

Awesome! Possibly inspired by this truly unbelievable timepiece:
http://www.thepurists.net/Patrons/members/ian_s/felixopusv/part2.htm

Looks and works perfect!
Would it be possible to add an option for a time offset?

edit to comment below:

"Having the actual month name isn't really necessary"

Well done! Would be really nice if the month's date were in the center of the circle containing the hour numbers, underneath the the day/night indicator. Having the actual month day isn't really necessary.

Impressive graphics! How about a matching calendar?

Mmmm.... eye candy...

Just downloaded it, and it's awesome. :)

Wow! I haven't even downloaded it yet..but it looks amazing.

This thing is gorgeous!