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This is a Russian Navy Clock (or Ship's Watch) made for use aboard Soviet submarines during the height of the Cold War by the Chistopol Watch Factory (sometimes called the Vostok Factory).
This factory was founded in 1942 when a Moscow watch-making plant was evacuated from Moscow to a little town, Chistopol (Чи́стополь Now in the Republic of Tatarstan), located on The Kama River.
The company was appointed an official supplier of watches and clocks for the Defence Department of the Soviet Union in 1965. This clock was made in 1966 and has a 12 jewel 8-day movement.
Versions of this clock can often be found on eBay. The ones with Hammer and Sickle on a Soviet star and ones with pictures of submarines are of recent manufacture, and usually have plastic where the glass should be. Real Cold War era versions are more difficult to find and are often not in working condition.
This clock is located on US 95 across from Mel's Diner. Since it's two-sided, I present two different views.
孔乙己知道“茴”的N种写法，和此前辈不同的是：我们知道一个数字的N种写法，从1到12都伪装、变形、修饰了，我们将这种做法称为“婉约”。
为什么LOG(55)是4？ 因为太Geek了。
In most commonly-used programming languages, including C, C++, SAS, MATLAB, Fortran, and BASIC, “log” or “LOG” refers to the natural logarithm.
大部分编程语言都使用LOG的写法表示以自然对数为底。
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm#Notational_conven...
特色：
1. 实木外框，高温蒸汽弯折工艺。
2. PVC钟面丝印文字。
3. 生活大爆炸的必然选择，谢耳朵的闺中密友。
4. 太阳牌静音扫描机芯，宁静如水。
5. 球形钟面，反光效果独特，更显科技本色。
材质：
1. 实木外框，回归自然，质朴无华。
2. 铝制黑色表针，黑白分明。
3. PVC钟面（非纸质）。
4. 球形玻璃钟面。
尺寸：
直径：31.5CM
配件：钢钉一枚，螺钉一枚，胶塞一枚，创可贴一张。
重量：
净重：0.7KG；毛重：0.96KG
This is located next to the downtown theater, but the business is different than the name on the clock.
A "mystery clock" on display as part of the "Jazz Age" exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
A "mystery clock" is a timepiece whose hands appear to "float". Such timepieces were fashionable between 1900 and 1940.
This clock was made about 1921 by Cartier, a French jewelry firm established in Paris by Louis-François Cartier (1819–1904) in 1847. In 1916, his grandson, Jacques Cartier, emigrated to the United States and opened a New York City branch of the business on Fifth Avenue.
The actual designer of this timepiece is not known. The creator of the movement is not known. The piece itself is made of gold, platinum, ebonite, citrine, diamonds, and enamel. Ebonite (or Vulcanite) is a very hard artificial resin created by Charles Goodyear in 1844. Citrine is a yellow to brownish-red variety of quartz (the second-most used quartz gemstone after amethyst).
This clock was first owned by Anna Thompson Dodge, wife of automobile manufacturer Horace Dodge.
#CMAJazzAge
The Clock
Y Cloc
Well-meaning, and right-mindedly
I sing. Fate is kind to me:
My soul takes flight to the fair town
With round tower at crag’s crown,
Finds a girl, of former fame:
My unforgotten old flame.
Through my Dream, moonlight fleeting
Beams on her a Dream of greeting.
Nightly now, her fetch shall fly
To tryst with me and linger nigh,
Or when, as in exhausted sleep,
My soul, unfettered, comes to creep
Within her chamber, I’ll appear
And speak with her till day is near
Like an angel, though my head
Lies pillowed in a distant bed.
Thus my otherworldly thought
Finds the lover I have sought
For age on age. The spell will break
The very moment I awake.
Damn the clock beside the dyke
That awoke me with one strike
Of the tongue between its teeth!
Curse the ropes and wheels beneath,
The stupid balls that dangle,
The hammer, the iron rectangle
Of its frame! Curse its quacking
And its endless mill-wheels clacking!
Churlish clock with canting clatter,
Clodhopping cobbler’s chatter,
Lies and treachery in your guts!
Hound-whelp’s maw that chews and gluts
On garbage, clapping jaws of spite!
Owl’s mill grinding through the night!
No saddler, crupper caked with crap
Could withstand the endless tap-
Tap-tapping of your ticker!
The very angels bark and bicker!
I had enjoyed – until this –
A dream of Heaven, untold bliss,
Wrapped within this woman’s arms
My head between her breasts. Charms
Of Eigr, beyond all cost.
Dong! Dong! Dong! And all are lost!
Come, my Dream, and seek once more
The airy highway to her door
And set my golden girl aglow
With slumbering love. My soul! Flow
To meet her! Moth! Take flight
And plunge into her orb of light!
Source material: Poem by Dafydd ap Gwilym, paraphrased by Giles Watson. Mechanical clocks of the kind derided in the poem were a newfangled technology in the fourteenth century, and are also mentioned by Chaucer and Jean Froissart. Once again, this poem draws on the llatai tradition, but in this case, the love-messenger is not the clock, but the poet’s Dream, which confers upon him the ability to fly by night to his beloved Eigr. As with Dafydd’s other beautiful dream poem, ‘Y Breuddwyd’, there are strong affinities with ‘The Dream of Maxen’ in the Mabinogion. It has been suggested that the town with the round tower on a hill is Brecon, which, with its marvellous setting, surrounded by the Black Mountains and the Brecon Hills, would seem to be an ideal place for souls to take flight. The poem implies that his soul can only make contact with that of his beloved when both of them are asleep and dreaming, and at the end of the paraphrase, I have introduced the soul-moth motif, which is a common feature of Celtic folklore. Cathedral cities such as Wells, Salisbury and St Albans did possess clocks of the type described by Dafydd, with chimes to mark the hours for the monastic offices, but it is impossible to know with which clock Dafydd was acquainted, and in the context of this poem, it appears that the clock was far removed from Brecon. For a more detailed examination of the historical background to this poem, see the notes to Rachel Bromwich’s prose translation, Dafydd ap Gwilym: Poems, Ceredigion, 1982, pp. 123-4.
Image derived from a photograph of the works of a mediaeval clock at Astbury church, Gloucestershire.
Antique Clock (detail). Thank you to Bill of Clockworks in Hartlepool for letting me photograph in his workshop.
An Ah Tay half-tester bed
Last Quarter, 19th century, Manila
Narra, cane or solihiya
272 x 225 x 137 cm (107 x 88 x 54 in)
In the past household items like beds, especially with canopies, were an important symbol of wealth because only the richest families could afford them. In 18th century Europe, stately homes would have majestic four-post or half-tester beds with the most lavish decorations and draperies. In the Philippines, by late 19th century, half-tester beds with Renaissance design elements became “de rigueur,” but only among the most opulent with the grandest homes. Renaissance-style incorporated elements from ancient Greece and Rome: large proportions, rectilinear shapes, columns, pediments, cornices, arabesques, etc. Don Julian Montilla (born 1831) established Hacienda Trinidad in Pontevedra, Negros Occidental and named it after his wife.
The hacienda covered up to thousands of hectares for growing sugar canes and manufacturing centrifugal sugar. During the second World War, Japanese soldiers burned the house in the hacienda to the ground. This bed would have been lost in perpetuity if not for the bravery of the farm workers who pulled this bed from the galloping fire and carried it to safety in the middle of the cane fields. It would have been a tragic loss. This bed was made by famed Chinese furniture maker, Ah Tay, who had a workshop in Binondo, Manila. Rising from a rail of stubby urn spindles at the bottom of the headboard, a big rectangular plank is flanked by carved flanges. A Roman-style pediment has a scroll and shield cartouche at the center and interlaced foliage, then topped by pierced crest with an inscribed palm frond surrounded by foliated C-scrolls. Protruding from the posts are carved brackets that help support the soaring D-shaped canopy.
The frieze and cornice are decorated, and so are the projections from the bends accentuated with a bulbous urn finial and a turnip drop finial. Surmounted on top is a crest similar to that on the headboard. The footboard has similar design elements as the headboard. Below the arch at the center is an inscribed highly stylized monogram. The posts topped with steeple-turned finials terminate in feet mounted by bulbous, perfectly-shaped kalabasa or squash, Ah Tay’s trademark carved signature. One-piece woven cane or solihiya serves as sleeping surface. The bed is in overall very good condition. Several design elements can be seen used as gadrooning on various areas, all done lavishly and masterfully.
A similar bed, though with some design variations, owned by the Lacson family of Negros (related to the Montillas), is featured on page 38 of the book Household Antiques & Heirlooms by Felice Sta. Maria.A legacy from the first sugar baron of Negros Island. Aristocratic and elegant, measuring close to a double / full size, and with craftsmanship and hallmarks of a master artisan unrivalled up to this time
Provenance: Heirs of Don Julian Montilla
Estimate: PHP 800,000 - 850,000
Lot 421 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on 22 September 2018. Please see www.salcedoauctions.com for more information.