The latest MB&F and L’Epée collaboration, Destination Moon, uses the latter’s eight-day movement to power a rocket. Developed specifically for Destination Moon, L’Epée’s eight-day movement follows the basic engineering of a real spaceship. the power for Destination Moon comes from… Read More ›
Clocks
BREGUET: Baudin’s Voyages and the Hora Mundi 5717
Recently, Breguet Australia held an unusual function in Sydney entitled ‘Explorateurs Espions’, a preview of a travelling exhibition currently at the S.A. Maritime Museum (other states and territories to follow) called “The Art of Science – Baudin’s Voyagers 1800-1804”. Funded… Read More ›
MB&F : Balthazar
MB&F’s continued collaboration with clockmaker Epée 1839 to realise Max Büsser’s horological dreams introduced its latest manifestion a few months ago in the form of a ‘self-named’ (of sorts, but more on that later) 40cm high robot-inspired clock called Balthazar… Read More ›
Real Time : Schiphol Clock
Today we bring you something a bit different and, dare I say, worth travelling to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport for – a 10ft high performance art clock by Dutch designer Maarten Baas. The latest edition of his ‘Real Time’ series, it… Read More ›
MB&F : Sherman, little brother of Melchior
In what has become a ritual of sorts we paid a visit to M.A.D. Gallery Geneva last week. Usually the visit is after SIHH, but this year, it was on the Sunday before the start of the fair, at which… Read More ›
PARMIGIANI FLEURIER & LALIQUE : Le Jour et La Nuit project
Today’s post is not about watches but about clocks – the Le Jour et La Nuit clock project of Parmigiani Fleurier and Lalique. Based on René Lalique’s original Le Jour et la Nuit table clock of 1926 which depicts a… Read More ›
MB&F : Melchior the mechanical robot clock
In thinking about this newly launched mechanical art from MB&F one wonders whether words are, to some degree, superfluous. The connection between Melchior and someone who looks at it is of course partly to do with his mechanical wonder but… Read More ›
VIDEO : A timely topic
Today’s post is another in the irregular ‘video’ series in which I share horologically themed videos that I come across online. This video dates back to 1934, and comes courtesy of the British Pathé archives by way of PuristSPro. As… Read More ›
HANDS-ON : with Urwerk’s Zeit Device
When is a pocket watch not a pocket watch? When even its creators don’t use the term but call it “a grand über complication”. Oh, and there’s also when the ‘pocket’ watch can’t actually fit into a pocket. We are… Read More ›
How long does it take to ‘construct a clock’?
This is not just any clock, it is the “Construct-A-Clock”, intended as an educational toy for 6 – 10 year olds, according to the manufacturers. I had been unsuccessfully looking for one of these on and off for a few… Read More ›