A fresco of "Time Carrying Truth", rediscovered during renovations of a small Venetian Palazzo. (source)
A fresco of "Time Carrying Truth", rediscovered during renovations of a small Venetian Palazzo. (source)
There were some good computer renderings when it was announced, but now the Richard Mille "Hommage à Boucheron" pieces finally exist in the real world. Over on thePurists, there are four pages, with pictures galore, and a fascinating explaination of how the wheels, made of semi-precious stones with brass gear-teeth, are created, with a 90% failure rate. I borrowed these two pictures of the catseye model from there. The stone cut for the wheels is so thin that it becomes translucent. Both the front and back plates are sapphire, with the red ruby jewels, upon which the pinions pivot, set into the clear sapphire.
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This time with pictures!
First the watch
Now a closeup of the dial. You can see the little gold woman, indicating the hours, and man, indicating the minutes. The slowly approach on the bridge, meeting at noon and midnight
Finally a shot of the enamel being painted onto the reverse of the dial, before being fired.
(All pictures via)
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In the Boutique district of NYC (Madison Ave between 55-70, not to be confused with the Diamond district on 47th st) I came across two different high-end jewelers selling watches. First is Buccelatti, whose somewhat classical designs in jewelry I've referenced before, with a heavily bejeweled piece. I find it unattractive, but somewhat in keeping with their designs
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The second jeweler was Graff, owned by a man who clearly has too much money. They have a line whose case design and dialwork are clearly intended to suggest a brilliant-cut diamond. The first piece, called the Graffstar, is a simple three-hand watch with a sub-second dial who reinforces that with the design on the dial
The second jeweler was Graff, owned by a man who clearly has too much money. They have a line whose case design and dialwork are clearly intended to suggest a brilliant-cut diamond. The first piece, called the Graffstar, is a simple three-hand watch with a sub-second dial who reinforces that with the design on the dial
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In case the size isn't clear, the Tourbillon named "Mastergraff" has a DLC (Diamond-like Carbon) coated case an a diameter of 47mm.
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In case the size isn't clear, the Tourbillon named "Mastergraff" has a DLC (Diamond-like Carbon) coated case an a diameter of 47mm.
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From the Dutch design firm of <a href="http://www.bloomming.com/">Bloomming</a> comes this electric clock. The worm-gear as a step down is not all that unusual, it is pretty common in synchronous electric clocks, but the wheels as display make for an interesting look.
And finally a close-up of the minute wheel and a worm-gear
All of the pictures from the Bloomming website
(seen on WeirdClocks)
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Eisenbrauns runs an annual Valentine's Day contest, write a love poem in any ancient middle-eastern language (Greek too!). This year the third-place winner was remarkably amusing:
The Song of the Four Locusts
She loves you
Let us sing it twice,
Even three times,
She loves you.
And so on....
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The Song of the Four Locusts
She loves you
Let us sing it twice,
Even three times,
She loves you.
And so on....
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From this years Salon International de Haute Horology (SIHH) come two of the complications of VC and A. Both the Butterfly and the Lovers are based on a small JLC caliber, adapted by the wizards of Agenhor. Over at The Purists there are photos of a tour of Agenhor, including both ov these pieces under construction.
Ian Skellern provided a fantastic video (posted to Horomundi) demonstrating the complications.
For an even higher resolution video
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EDITED: I can't figure out how to embed the video without it auto-playing, so you'll have to click over to Horomundi or the hi-res link to see it
From The Onion:
Representatives from the sports drink manufacturer Powerade announced Wednesday that Nisroch, the ancient Assyrian god of agriculture, has been resurrected from the depths of Assyro-Babylonian mythology to serve as the key marketing figure for their newest product, Nisroch: Eagle Heart X-TREME WHIRLWIND!.....
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Representatives from the sports drink manufacturer Powerade announced Wednesday that Nisroch, the ancient Assyrian god of agriculture, has been resurrected from the depths of Assyro-Babylonian mythology to serve as the key marketing figure for their newest product, Nisroch: Eagle Heart X-TREME WHIRLWIND!.....
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It's been a while since I worked on my Prolog-based parser for Akkadian verbs, but I noticed a bug and realized I wanted to get back to it. As part of that, I've added a change log, to track bugs and improvements
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Consider this a follow-up to the previous post on the current Boucheron necklace collection celebrating twenty years of Cirque de SoleiI. I was able to track down some more promotional pictures of the necklaces, this time with names even!
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| Believe | Kooza | Love |
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| Nouba | Ovo | Saltimbanco |
(All pictures from Paris Joaillerie, and can be clicked for larger versions)
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