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The superb and ancient Medieval clock in Wells Cathedral. Another one of those shots where i clamped the camera to part of the church fabric and largely hoped for the best. The little figures that race round every quarter hour are on a corbel above, but proved too illusive to catch for the moment, but the gloriously coloured dial was just as eyecatching.
I met these guys and saw their watches at the recent Austin Watch Expo and really liked the unique design cues. I ordered this black dial and then they ended up hiring me to shoot three of their watches for the social media pages. A really nice watch. I don't wear dress watches frequently because of my lifestyle but this looks great on the wrist!
Lange 1815; watch hanging horizontally. SB600s fired through diffusers top/bottom 3:1 fill, triggered by SB800 on camera. D200 and 105VR with extension tubes; this the full frame - approximately 2:1 magnification. Lighting on this scale is, shall we say, at best challenging.
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I mentioned before that my Dad is a horologist - in fact, he's a Fellow of the British Horological Institute!
He loaned me a couple of pieces he's been working on so I can practise my macros, and I was pretty impressed with my little Nikon's results. When you consider that it's only 4 megapixels and is a fairly basic point-and-shoot, it gives excellent results, even without a tripod!
It's shown me one thing though.
Always inspect one's subject before commencing a shoot.... Damned watch is covered in fluff!
The subject of an upcoming article on watch photography with the Leica M9-P on www.blog.mingthein.com
If you're in KL, come and check out my exhibition of watch photography with Leica and Jaeger Le-Coultre at Starhill Gallery from 3 May 2012!
A solitary watch repairman works on a customer's timepiece amidst the wall and table clocks in his shop.
This is a panoramic shot of the rustic and very cramped Singwa watch store, which has been around since the late 1980s.
Watch repairing is sadly a dying profession today. Many of the skilled horological technicians of the past have either retired or passed on, while few young people are interested in the art of watch repair.
Micro watch company 'UNDONE''s Urbane Vintage "Killy" paying homage to Rolex's Jean-Claude Killy vintage watch..
This company makes customizable watches. Just get on their site and make the watch you want. SEIKO movement, mechanical-quartz hybrid in this style.
The Mason County Horological Society organized the construction of the Village Time Museum, affectionately known as the “Clock Shop” in 1990. The clocks on display are primarily from the large donation of clocks and watches by Mrs. Hazel Oldt.
The Pantograph (engraving) machines are from the Star Watch Case Company, which was one of the leading industries of Ludington for many years. It might be considered a form of mass production as the design that the stylus follows on the master plate is transferred identically 28 – 31 times.
The brass clock, with the ornate long pendulum run by weights, is of French origin and is called a Morbier clock from the region of France where it originated. The style of decoration (the figures of farmers at the top of the case) helps to date the clock to approximately 1815.
The Cuckoo clock dates from about 1850 and is a fine example of a Black Forest German Clock.
The large Seth Thomas one-weight clock was from Hudsonville, MI. To be used, it was attached to external batteries to ring the bell for the Hudsonville High School during the early 1900’s.
Some more great photo props today. On Etsy I found this shop that sells like 50 sheets of various types of paper with actual chinese and japanese writing making for a great base for my Chinese watches...
2025 Chunlei Old Shanghai Diamond Brand Genuine Mechanical Manual -Winding Watch Model 8120
This watch finally arrived...not an expensive watch by any means but even tho this is a "new" watch built in the Shanghai Watch Factory it has a vintage feel. The antithesis ff of today's modern watches with no lume or a fancy case....I will say tho that true vintage Chinese watches were made for Chinese people back in the day and most watches were 32mm, 34, and large was 36mm. I cannot wear anything smaller than 38mm and this watch is 41mm.
Shot with the Fotodiox 22mm extension tube.
Prague astronomical clock - Calendar
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Replacing a deformed hairspring on a Tudor (ETA) 1156.
Lining everything up before pressing on the replacement spring
A flip clock (also known as a "flap clock") is an electromechanical, digital time keeping device with the time indicated by numbers that are sequentially revealed by a split-flap display. The study, collection and repair of flip clocks is termed horopalettology [From horology - The study and measurement of time and palette - from the Italian "orologio a palette" - Italian for "flip clock"]. People interested in the collection, restoration, buying and selling of flip clocks are known as horopalettologists.
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This was one of the hardest parts of the experiment as I had to wait a full minute between shots and it was difficult to time the exposure to include the drop. In the end, while I like the picture, it didn't seem to me to portray the motion blur.
I have been methodically building my tools and parts lists to start my rookie modding and building process....I have two brand names I am not sure of but a key part of watch branding that we ALL CAN relate to is bad logos and good logos - RIGHT?
So, I found Adam at horologyhub.com/logos-and-dial-decals/ after I had created my first version of a logo in Adobe Illustrator...he did a great job cleaning the logo up for this small sized printing...but, as I was waiting for those I came up with another brand idea....and, sent him a second logo. This was much simpler. I got both logos back today....totally super pro decals....
I took apart my $10 Amazon Essentials watch with the gold hands and decided to apply what was designed as a sort of 'GW' logo but by mistake I applied it upside down! SHazammm! BADABOOM! I can hardly wait to try the mountain logo but, the "sterile" dial now looks like a $$$$$$$$$$!!!
Jessie sez:
I has just herded on the grapevine, that Siri is expecting his brand-new Cat-Rolex Cosmograph Daytona (the one in rose gold wif' all these diaminds on its face of course!) to arrive in the post today.
I FINKS I'll just hang around here at the door until it arrives. Siri usually gets Brushtail Mousie to answer the door when important deliveries are expected, but in this exceptional case, I finks I'd better get there first, so that I can check the watch over and ensure that there is no problims wif' it. Who knows, I mite just as well hang onto it miself if it passes all mi' tests? Siri has no idea about horologies anyways! >8-)))))
Recently I sent this Orient watch to a small watch repair service store, as the inside glass was slightly fogging up.
The elderly gentleman usually does a good job cleaning the inner crystal of annoying vapor, but as this watch was tricky to disassemble and piece together, he accidentally nicked the inner rotating 24 hour dial between 5 and 6 o'clock. ☹️
This discontinued Orient World Timer automatic is one of my favorite watches, but has always been plagued with moisture issues on the inside glass.
Photo taken in dimly lit Asian fare restaurant, right after I collected this watch from the repairman. This watch has a domed or curved glass, which makes photography a nightmare with overhead lights.
"Columbia, formerly Wright's Ferry, is a borough (town) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 10,222. It is 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg, on the east (left) bank of the Susquehanna River, across from Wrightsville and York County and just south of U.S. Route 30.
The settlement was founded in 1726 by Colonial English Quakers from Chester County, led by entrepreneur and evangelist John Wright. Establishment of the eponymous Wright's Ferry, the first commercial Susquehanna crossing in the region, inflamed territorial conflict with neighboring Maryland but brought growth and prosperity to the small town, which was just a few votes shy of becoming the new United States' capital. Though besieged for a short while by Civil War destruction, Columbia remained a lively center of transport and industry throughout the 19th century, once serving as a terminus of the Pennsylvania Canal. Later, however, the Great Depression and 20th-century changes in economy and technology sent the borough into decline. It is notable today as the site of one of the world's few museums devoted entirely to horology." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
Replacing a deformed hairspring on a Tudor (ETA) 1156.
Putting the new hairspring in place, to be pressed on
After almost two years of waiting, my @mingwatches Worldtimer 29.01 is finally here. There is a lot to like: Firstly, it’s a true Worldtimer, which means that you can tell the time in every time zone (as indicated by different city names in the outer rings of the dial) at all times, in one glance, without having to press any buttons or touching the crown. The Schwarz-Etienne movement designed for Ming is a sight to behold: it has a lot of depth for the size, it comes with a gold micro-rotor and a skeletonized barrel and just the right level of decoration to suit the overall aesthetics. The hands are made of sapphire. The lume is incredible: every single city name (pretty much every element of the dial) is coated in super-luminova, so it can be easily read in the dark. The size is perfect: it is big enough to be legible and to command the right wrist presence yet it’s also the kind of piece that you can slide under the cuff with ease. All of the above makes it an extremely wearable watch yet a relatively odd one: some kind of distant relative to the archetypical world timer that Patek has deeply implanted in our imagination. What is it really? A sports watch or a dress watch? Well, it is very wearable in its own right, but it is not the classic mapa-mundi world timer with the kind of design language preferred by 90-year-old Swiss bankers (you would probably never find lume in one of those). In the style of Ming, it does away with all those old-world design elements that speak of understated wealth in favour of contemporary versatility: It is a watch that you can wear under the cuff or in plain sight, with a business suit at a board room or with your sneakers at a Sunday soirée. It probably wouldn’t work too well at a ballroom gala, but it doesn’t need any type of Swiss-banker regalia to fit in on your daily life. It’s just extremely easy to wear.
It is not a bargain by any means, but released in a limited edition of 100 (excluding the 25 pieces of the Dubai edition with arabic city names) it seems to me that Ming has stayed true to its motto of making watches for connoisseurs. This is not the watch that you buy to impress your Tinder dates, but a piece of horology for real watch geeks. For people who are deeply lost in this rabbit hole, for the kind of oddballs who don’t need to be explained what a worldtimer or a micro-rotor are. For the type of dudes who want those two elusive complications in their collections and realise that having them packed in a limited edition of 100 by a very promising independent watchmaker is something special. Not a bad deal after all, even at the price point.
Nitpicks: (1) No way to account for daylight savings, but hey, Patek doesn’t do that either. (2) The Ming signature lugs are also not my favorite thing but they are growing on me.
An 'Anniversary Clock'. German, 'Urania', just a bit later than 1905, the year of publication of Einstein's Special Relativity paper, which had a bit to say about clocks. But time is not slowing, it's speeding up! The internet radio behind it is about a century younger.
These torsion pendulum clocks could run for a year or more on a single wind, hence the name. The were often given as wedding presents from husband to wife. Only eighty windups to a Ruby anniversary. But many more adjustments -- more pretty than precise. Watching their dawdling oscillations has the same calming effect as fish in a bowl...
I haven't played around yet with ISO overrides, neutral density filters, or time exposure settings on my digital camera. So I failed at first attempt to do what I wanted here (and would have easily done with my old analogue cameras), to blur the rotating pendulum. The camera had an extra degree of freedom and aims beyond mine. It did the equivalent of push processing by upping the ISO to 6400. But the pseudo grain seems to me OK for the context.
Within the (1/80)s exposure, the pendulum would have rotated around a third of a degree. This model has a relatively unusual cylindrical inertial base, so not much blur could be expected to show up on that part in any case. Maybe I'll have another go with different settings in another few million oscillations or so...