‘Pastel’ colours can be defined as ‘any colour that has just enough white mixed into it to look pale and soft while maintaining its colourful personality’. And it’s that notion of softening colours with a hint of white that comes to the fore in clock designs that are undeniably stylish but don’t need to shout about it.

The clocks’ colours say it all – shades with serene-sounding, evocative names such as Silver Cloud, Hedgerow, Honey, Dusty Pink, Snowberry and Seagrass, Moonstone, Pearl, Plaster and so many more…