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Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire as opened a new special exhibit "Watchmaking in Geneva. The Magic of Craftsmanship, Treasures of Gold and Enamel", from December 15th 2011 to April 29th 2012. One of the sponsers was Vacheron Constantine and they're running a concurrent smaller exhibit, "Watches with special displays... various ways of telling the time" from December 15th 2011 to January 22nd 2012.

One of the more interesting pieces from this exhibit is a early 20th century piece using the Bras en l'air method, where the arms of the figure lift to point to the current time when the button on top is pressed. This one, in particular is both an excellent example of that complication and the quaint, pervasive racism of the time.

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Vacheron (previously mentioned) released a M.C. Escheresque watch for the 2011 Only Watch auction, and has now released 3 more as members of their Métiers d'Art collection, Les Univers Infinis. Well 2.5 more, the Dove design is the Only Watch... Read More

VC&A (you know them well) have another in their line of jeweled, lightly complicated, ladies watches, the Poetic Complications; from the Fairy in 1997 to the Lovers' Bridge in 2010. Starting with the Retrograde mechanism from their Fairy watch, the... Read More

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