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Offering rare insight to the design process, Ian Skellern of Horomundi has just shared the feature “From Sketch to Machine”, showcasing the drawings and evolution of the phenomenal Horological Machine N1 –> Link Read the rest of this entry »
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Little is shown in the movie trailer for “Youth Without Youth”, Francis Ford Coppolas first new film in over 10 years but watch it and you’ll understand why I’m posting it here. Coppola adapted, produced and directed the movie based on the 1976 novel by Romanian-born religious historian Mircea Eliade.
The movie stars Tim Roth as a 70-year-old who is struck by lightning and suddenly gets younger and more brilliant.
Enter The Watchismo Times 1st anniversary vintage chronograph giveway!–>LINK Read the rest of this entry »
The Accurate, Mantra, Decider, Right or Wrong, and More or Less are all the latest limited edition conceptual timepieces from Mr. Jones Watches.
Last time I featured Mr. Jones Watches–>Link, he had an exhibition-only series of prototype electronic watches developed to explore new cultural expressions, technologies of timekeeping and how they relate to contemporary life. “Each one was the embodiment of a social critique or observation.” With a perfect sense of black humor, cultural irony and dry wit, London based Crispin Jones, the man behind the Mister, described his concepts as “work which lives in the intersection between Fine Art and Design - broadly this area is known as Critical Design - using the language and tools of design to articulate a critical perspective.” Read the rest of this entry »
“The story of the radium watch-dial painters is a classic case in the history of occupational disease. Attracted by easy work and high wages, these young women painted the luminous numbers on wristwatches that, designed for soldiers involved in the trench warfare of World War I, became a consumer fad in the 1920s. The women were taught to sharpen the tips of their paintbrushes between their lips and, as a result, they absorbed substantial quantities of radium. Their tragic illnesses and deaths led to crucial discoveries in radiobiology and contributed to the establishment of standards for the level of exposure to radiation in the workplace.” -From The New England Journal of Medicine Read the rest of this entry »
Two hands? That just so second millennium. Get with the times man and check out the minimal Botta Uno one handed watch. Designed by Klaus Botta and available in mechanical automatic or quartz (229-490 Euros).
Seconds? minutes?? Screw it all to hell. With the Uno, be on time-ish. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, maybe you won’t know what time it is, but you’ll be the coolest cat in that sweaty speakeasy! From an article in the September 1934 issue of Popular Science. Original text below…
ICEBOX ON WRIST TO COOL THE WHOLE BODY
“Purdue University physicists say the whole body may be kept cool during the hottest weather by a recently developed miniature refrigerator that straps to the wrist in the manner of a watch. The refrigerator is somewhat larger than a wrist watch and encloses a pellet of dry ice solid carbon dioxide. As the dry ice evaporates, it forms an invisible gas. Escaping from the case, the gas has the same effect as cold water poured over the wrists. It lowers the temperature of the blood in the arteries and this cooled blood is carried to every part of the body. The metal case is insulated from the wrist by rubber, as the temperature of the dry ice is 109 degrees below zero and its contact with the skin would result in a severe burn. With proper insulation, however, there is no danger of this occurring. And thus the device can be worn in perfect safety.” Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been waiting to see more invasive photographs of the fusee and chain mechanism of the Breguet Tradition 7047 Tourbillon and am happy to direct you to Watching Horology where that feat has been captured in great detail–>Link
“The second of this year’s remarkable tourbillons from Breguet is the La Tradition Tourbillon, which extends the tourbillon as an art form both forwards into the future and which also reaches backwards in time, incorporating one of the rarest horological complications of them all- the fusee and chain.” Read the rest of this entry »
A collection of rare historical timepieces is now on show at the premises of A. Lange & Shne. Entitled From Dresden to Glashtte the roots of precision watchmaking in Saxony, the exhibition features selected clocks and pocket watches from the Mathematisch-Physikalischen Salon collection. Read the rest of this entry »