(Or "Not every hit can be a home run")
From the unorthodox yet fertile minds of Jorg Hysek, Fabrice Gonet* and Valerie Ursenbacher comes another watch under the brand HD3, the Black Pearl. Clearly trying to capture all the momentum still left seven years after the release of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, this massive watch is as pirated-up as possible without including an eyepatch or a parrot. It has a skull-and-crossbones on one side, a death's head in the compass on the back and a crown said to resemble a ships wheel.
The movement, which appears to have been realized by BNB, has a double-axis Tourbillon and an 80-hour power reserve. Telling the time is a bit of a challenge, with the hours represented on the left (conventional 9 o'clock) digitally and the minutes at the top with what seems reminiscent of a ships telegraph from the 19th century. There is also a power-reserve display at about 10:30 in the vague form of a sextant. The movement is identical to that in the Vulkania released in 2008.
*Fabrice previously designed a piece for the HD3 brand that had a quartz watch under a tourbillon as a way to get a big date and second timezone without any of that pesky watchmaking.
The following pictures are from the HD3 website.
First, the promotional picture in what has become almost a required pose, front and back digitally composited together.
Face and crown
Back and 9 o'clock side
Closeup of the Tourbillon carriages and the dial pieces
Closeup of the engraving on the sapphire back
And finally the crown, in all its glory
A
ps. If you have to ask, it has a retail price of approx $400,000
From the unorthodox yet fertile minds of Jorg Hysek, Fabrice Gonet* and Valerie Ursenbacher comes another watch under the brand HD3, the Black Pearl. Clearly trying to capture all the momentum still left seven years after the release of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, this massive watch is as pirated-up as possible without including an eyepatch or a parrot. It has a skull-and-crossbones on one side, a death's head in the compass on the back and a crown said to resemble a ships wheel.
The movement, which appears to have been realized by BNB, has a double-axis Tourbillon and an 80-hour power reserve. Telling the time is a bit of a challenge, with the hours represented on the left (conventional 9 o'clock) digitally and the minutes at the top with what seems reminiscent of a ships telegraph from the 19th century. There is also a power-reserve display at about 10:30 in the vague form of a sextant. The movement is identical to that in the Vulkania released in 2008.
*Fabrice previously designed a piece for the HD3 brand that had a quartz watch under a tourbillon as a way to get a big date and second timezone without any of that pesky watchmaking.
The following pictures are from the HD3 website.
First, the promotional picture in what has become almost a required pose, front and back digitally composited together.
Face and crown
Back and 9 o'clock side
Closeup of the Tourbillon carriages and the dial pieces
Closeup of the engraving on the sapphire back
And finally the crown, in all its glory
A
ps. If you have to ask, it has a retail price of approx $400,000
Had they done this all steampunk like, it would be far cooler.
While I can't exactly call it pretty, it does have a certain coolth to it. (Although I have to agree that a steampunk version would actually show that they were with the zeitgeist, as opposed to trailing it by several years...)