Birthday present tip
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I've always been a sucker for cool timepieces but this one really blew me away big time. Created by Felix Baumgartner and Max Busser, for Harry Winston Rare Timepieces: The Opus 5. In case you didn't know what to bring me for my birthday at June 9: now you do!
It has a totally different concept in time telling with its ‘satellite hour’ display where the hour consists of three blocks with numbers on each side. The hour hands rotates while each blocks rotates and as it reaches the minute indicator it is the correct numeral that is shown. Note that the minute arrow is not connected to the hour cube and once the arrow gets to 60 it will drop down to 0 to meet the next rotating hour block.
I really love alternative ways of displaying the time. In the early nineties I designed one that incorporated four rotating discs divided into six colored parts to display the current time. I built a prototype that only 'ran' if you turned a wheel on the back but it did show the principle perfectly. This ultra cool watch brought back the idea!
TODO: Build a working version of the color-clock
Note: I don't know if anyone here is remotely interested in this kind of stuff. If so I could write another posting on the idea behind my color clock.
Note 2: link found on Bob's site
At 06 April '05 - 17:13 Bram wrote:
At 08 April '05 - 16:44 Rwin wrote:
heel errug very cool ex-collega!