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Intimate travelling immersive theatre production based upon the book Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
The SILICON: the END of horology? Or the future of watchmaking? Full analysis, opinions of greatests Bloggers, and POOL, to try to answer: www.watchonista.com/1/watchonista-administrator/silicium
Precious sophistication with shimmering diamonds- the Bulgari Serpenti Incantati
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Some of the gears from Priscilla's movement. You can also see some of my notes to try and remember how these things all go back together.
This is the main wheel of the repeater. The mainspring (not shown) is wound with this ratchet when the button is depressed.
Mesmerizing details and contrasts- the Zenith Watches Defy El Primero 21
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156/365 - This is the first watch model made by McGonigle watches. It's a basic time only watch but the finish is first class!
The clock tower and eagle weather vane on the building. Eryri is the Welsh for Snowdonia, and means "Abode of Eagles", this having been the accepted origin. Modern research however, suggests that it is from the Latin oriri, to arise, and simply meant highlands. Poets will stick with the old explanation.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO), in London, England played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known as the location of the prime meridian.
It is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames.
The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) at which the longitude is defined to be 0°.
The Prime Meridian and its opposite the 180th meridian (at 180° longitude), which the International Date Line generally follows, form a great circle that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
The observatory was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August. At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal (initially filled by John Flamsteed), to serve as the director of the observatory and to "apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation."
The building was completed in the summer of 1676. The building was often given the title "Flamsteed House".
The scientific work of the observatory was relocated elsewhere in stages in the first half of the 20th century, and the Greenwich site is now maintained as a tourist attraction and museum.
To help others synchronize their clocks to GMT, a time ball was installed by Astronomer Royal John Pond in 1833. It still drops daily to mark the exact moment of 1 p.m. (13:00) year round (GMT during winter and BST during summer). The time ball sits on top of the Octagon Room."
Many horological artefacts are displayed, documenting the history of precision timekeeping for navigational and astronomical purposes.
The Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site incorporates the Royal Observatory, the National Maritime Museum and 17th-century Queen's House.
In 2012, Her Majesty The Queen formally approved Royal Museums Greenwich as the new overall title for the National Maritime Museum, Queen’s House, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Cutty Sark.
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I am going crazy creatively not really shooting any watches because of my current self-imposed #1wc aka One Week Challenge to wear the same watch with no "slipping" of even trying on any of my other watches. But, this is a new Pablo Raez watch I picked up mostly because I was buying other stupid stuff on AliExpress and I liked this dial and $11 is just fun. But, even tho I rarely wear my other Pablo Raez watches, I really like the brand and the quality for the price is amazing. This new sort of casual dress watch is a chinese quartz movement and the watch either feels like titatium or an actual $11 watch but, it looks like a $500 watch! I am only posting this one group shot for now just to satisfy my creative withdrawals but the "ballon -top left" and the "tank - bottom right" look so great on my wrist.
Probably mostly because for all three watches I am only into it for a total of less than $40 but even tho Sanda makes the same configs, I am somehow loyal to Pablo. The logo is not too offensive and the name is only slightly silly.
Lemania monopusher chronograph. Lit by single SB600 from left, reflection in diffuser panel above. Triggered by SB800 on D200
I wanted to do a blog post about adding straps to your watches to really customize your vibe. So, I went out to Red Rock to shoot these images. I am really more of a watch bracelet kind of guy but amazing how these different straps change the vibe.
Titan Alpha is the first of the Titan series of longcase clocks by Lake District clock case designer, Jamie Sims. For more info, please go to www.jdsclocks.com
Omega Cal. 711 detail; lit with single SB600 from top and behind diffuser. triggered by SB800 on D300. Part of the D300 test drive...
Pocket watch that I received as a confirmation gift from my grand parents. This was the first mechanical watch I serviced. ETA 6497 inside.
THis thing is really amazing. It was built in the early 1400s, and the case and dials have been updated several times since, but still uses the same clockworks, running perfectly. The upper hands rotate once every 24 hours. The lower disc rotates once every 365 days. It has 20 or 30 functions, such as from sun and moon rise and set, moon phase, zodiac sign, time, day month year, what bible pages to read, what saint's day, etc. AND it has a huge music box AND Jesus hosts a parade of the apostles across the top at noon.
The IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Grande Complication brings together many of watchmaking complications including the perpetual moon phase display, chronograph and minute repeater. When activated by the repeating slide, the latter chimes out the precise time in harmonious tones.
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Beginning efforts with tabletop photography and the watches I have acquired. I am building a website of my watch collection for my own personal artistic expression; not to be an influencer or to monetize my YouTube channel.
Ornate your wrist with the Chopard Imperiale watch, a testimony of elegance.
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This 1896 building (note the date on the roofline), called Somerset Hall in 1900, was the Philadelphia College or School of Horology in 1918 and 1922; the address is sometimes given as Broad and Somerset, though the building is several doors from Broad Street. The school, which taught other subjects, as the wall sign says, was established around 1893 and had been at 1213 Filbert Street.
Before it was a school, the building was, in 1899 and 1900, part of the Christian Catholic Church or Zionists, a faith-healing group based in Chicago and still in existence. George Armor Fair, who was preaching here, entered a dispute with the group's founder, John Alexander Dowie. A few years later, Fair was far from Philadelphia, continuing as an evangelist with Baptists and other groups closer to the mainstream. The building now serves again as a house of worship, the Greater Love Temple--Faith Church.
Here is a close-up of the facade:
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If you can't see it, please let me know.
Here is a 1924 photograph from PhillyHistory (look to the far right): www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Detail.aspx?assetId=41995