Lord Orville Pott
Officer
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I watch The View
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« on: March 05, 2008, 01:47:49 am » |
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I so want to make one of these, on the simple side but think i could do it. Just need to borrow a CNC .  |
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JingleJoe
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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2008, 02:05:24 am » |
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I Don't normally like watches, except maybe a good fancy pocket watch or a watch that wouldn't look out of place in Mad Max, but I love that watch!
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J.F.Dawson
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2008, 02:34:29 am » |
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Oh my, this IS one interesting design... a great concept which only could be improved by adding brown leather armbands and reworking the clock-body in brass, covered with a nice engraved cap. *sigh*  |
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'To Bring Light Into Darkness'
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Goggleyed
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« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2008, 02:50:56 am » |
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Hmm... I like it. I really dont know what some of those dials are for though, specifically the second ring in the bottom left dial...
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Inventrix
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« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2008, 02:54:16 am » |
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Hmm... I like it. I really dont know what some of those dials are for though, specifically the second ring in the bottom left dial...
It counts every 4 years so you know when it happens to be a leap year.  I want to see inside! |
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Goggleyed
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« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2008, 02:58:29 am » |
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Well, that makes much, much more since now...
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HAC
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« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2008, 04:11:51 am » |
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Have fun with the movement.. Vianney-Halters are quite the complicated bits of horology... Mechanical perpertual calendars are generally complex in nature. The calendar has 100 year accuracy and the watch takes 900 hours of watchmaker bench time to make. Cost? for this Antiqua Perpetua in 18K rose gold? $74,000 US The dials are also a bit more complex than the average: As is the case.. Cheers Harold |
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You never know what lonesome is , 'til you get to herdin' cows.
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Prof. A. Morphous
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« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2008, 04:37:18 am » |
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Have fun with the movement.. Vianney-Halters are quite the complicated bits of horology... Mechanical perpertual calendars are generally complex in nature. The calendar has 100 year accuracy and the watch takes 900 hours of watchmaker bench time to make. Cost? for this Antiqua Perpetua in 18K rose gold? $74,000 US The dials are also a bit more complex than the average: As is the case.. Cheers Harold That is not horribly expensive then. 900 hours from skilled watchmakers...does math...82.222 $/hour. Factor in the high cost of rose gold (any gold these days $964/ozt -wow!) and parts cost and the deal gets better. I wonder how much the company actually makes on this watch and how much their watchmakers make. Puts things in perspective. Thank you HAC, I was just about to post the link to those pictures, beautiful. -Prof. A. Morphous |
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Lutra
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« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2008, 04:38:38 am » |
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That is one beautiful watch...drool
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
-Nikola Tesla
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-Mark Twain
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rogue_designer
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« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2008, 04:41:01 am » |
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43 jewels?
*drops monocle*
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
(Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. But deserve a nice glass of absinthe. I have some Montemarte in the cabinet, if you wish.)
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Kuma
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« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2008, 05:39:32 am » |
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I work on watches in my shop, that is the only brand of watch that has never walked through the door, but they are gorgeous.
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Wrath the Mad
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« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2008, 05:46:10 am » |
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I was going to suggest an analogy comparing this watch to Lamborigini...
Except that Lamborigini ain't got $#!^ on that. Can you imagine the patience and delicate hand required to concieve, design, and then build such a thing?
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"It works!" -BOOM- "Ah... heh... Uhm, it's not supposed to do that..."
Less is NOT more... Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was just a cheapskate!
Back off. I'm doing Science! (Being resized) ^^
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Mexican_Pirate
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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2008, 05:56:01 am » |
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Wow, that is quite the chronometer there. And one that I highly doubt you'll be seeing knockoffs of in New York City.
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Kuma
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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2008, 05:57:25 am » |
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Wow, that is quite the chronometer there. And one that I highly doubt you'll be seeing knockoffs of in New York City.
Youd be amazed |
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akumabito
Rogue Ætherlord
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Mundus Patria Nostra!
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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2008, 09:21:48 am » |
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I'm not usually one that goes soft over watches or other clockwork, but I gladly make an exception for that watch! What an utterly amazing piece of design! This really is perfection in every imaginable way..  |
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Mechanism Man
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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2008, 09:47:13 am » |
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If you liked that, then this may just tickle your fancy too....  You need a spare $220,000 in your pocket though... Edit - it's by a company called Cabestan by the way. Yum. |
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akumabito
Rogue Ætherlord
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Mundus Patria Nostra!
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« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2008, 09:50:23 am » |
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This one is cool too, but the other one is infinitely more refined, as well as far more practical..
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Commander Obadiah
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« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2008, 10:25:09 am » |
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Want.
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The Steampunk code: 'To delicately dismantle the system from within, if it's not too much trouble'
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Mechanism Man
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« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2008, 10:30:30 am » |
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Want.
Commander C. Obadiah
But you'll have to fight me for it first - my sabres almost finished... |
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