Antikythera as a Wristwatch

By Aaron Macks on February 4, 2010 6:35 PM StumbleUpon Toolbar | No Comments | 1 TrackBack
Because the modern manual-wound wristwatch is not enough of an anachronism, Jerome Siegrist who is one of the Confrerie Horlogere*, has designed a wristwatch driven by a replica of the Antikythera mechanism

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* A watchmaking group sponsored by BNB Concept to create unusual and innovative watches, previously referenced

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