First Concepts:

The idea was to create a timer, so the first attempt was to make a kind of smartwatch, made of magnets, mixed with a transformer.

The Eye:

At some point, thinking about the Thron movie, I thought it would be cool to create a cybernetic eye that watches you while its iris rotates, all against a moving background traveling through a time tunnel.

I made a quick animated concept, just for the iris, to see if the idea of the eye could work.

I loved the it!

Final design:

The client was not sure about that, it´s disapointing for an artist, but it happens. So I made a more minimalistic design based on his feedback:

And the last and selected version: