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"When you make something as small and complex as a watch, you can't do a little and put it down and come back the next day and do a bit more. You work until you are exhausted, then pack it in for the night and start again the next day, always working to maximum capacity, or the watch wouldn't get done."
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posted by
IndigoJones
on Nov 18, 2011 -
17 comments
PHILIPPE DUFOUR
-
Horlogerie
compliquée
posted by
Joe Beese
on Dec 31, 2009 -
14 comments
The Richard Mille Planetarium-Tellurium
- 10 years in the making and looking absolutely fabulous.
posted by
tellurian
on Aug 28, 2007 -
12 comments
Marvin Schneider,
New York City's Official Clock Master
is responsible for keeping the giant public clocks of the five boroughs running smoothly;
the beautiful photo essay with an accompanying interview
is not to be missed for fans of giant gears & sprockets.
posted by
jonson
on Jun 10, 2007 -
18 comments
Timeshapes: The wooden clocks of Jim Borden.
Suspended clocks
.
Table clocks
.
Wall clocks
. His
30-foot clock
. The
clock making process
. He's even
listed
in the
Online Movement Catalog
.
posted by
OmieWise
on Mar 29, 2007 -
11 comments
JJ Casalonga's
Gallery of Odd Watches
contains a number of rare and esoteric designs. Some are conventional but for being
nearly transparent
or
made of wood
, while others are truly
bizarre
and
impractical
. Is
this
what the timecube guy wears? Don't miss the Bolshevik
counter-clockwise design
.
posted by
Rhomboid
on Oct 16, 2006 -
12 comments
Claude Théberge
is a Canadian artist. Watch out for the
umbrellas
and
hats
. [MI]
posted by
nervousfritz
on Jul 6, 2006 -
9 comments
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
has some excellent online collections related to maritime history and technology, including
telescopes
,
marine chronometers
,
sundials
, and a whole lot more. Some stuff I've been looking at:
John
Harrison's
chronometers
(described in Dava Sobel's book
Longitude
),
polyhedral sundials
, and
pocket globes
.
posted by
carter
on Mar 15, 2006 -
4 comments
A Master Watchmaker's Notebook.
Fascinating, all of it.
posted by
five fresh fish
on Feb 20, 2006 -
27 comments
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