WHOA
I AM GOING TO PEE MY PANTS
LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL THING
Midnight Planétarium from Van Cleef & Arpel’s Poetic Astronomy series.
One of the comments on the video: “In addition to telling time by way of a shooting star that rotates along the outmost area of the face, the watch more prominently features an accurate rotation and representation of the Earth and the five other planets visible from here around the sun—Mercury in 88 days, Venus in 224, Earth in a year, Mars in 687 days, Jupiter in 12 years and Saturn in 29. It’s a very complex watch and a true display of supreme watchmaking. But as complicated as the piece is—with 396 parts to the movement—it’s also beautiful.”
FREAKING
CRAP
I really need to get a book (or two) on watchmaking, ‘cause these things are becoming a bit of an obsession.
I’M WATCHING YOU
If I’m ever in a city with one of these stores, I’m spending like 15 hours in it and no one will be able to stop me.
I like to think I’m not a very materialistic person, but I really like fancy-ass watches.
Pretty ones:
More Haute Horology
Incredibly ostentatious watches are like my favorite things now.
This is the Antoine Martin Slow Runner (picture from here).
I love how celestial it looks. And check out the video on the site linked above. It looks like it’s breathing!
Now, a watch from De Bethune (picture from here):
Finally, the Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon (picture from here).
They’re so preeeeeeeeeetty.
WATCH PORN
No, that wasn’t a command. I meant “watch porn” as in this beautiful nonsense right here:
This is the Aeternitas Mega 4, designed by Franck Muller, and is apparently the most complicated wristwatch ever made (it’s also like 2 million dollars so yeah).
The Aeternitas Mega 4 is an example of haute horology, which is basically like extreme pimping of a car, except the car is a watch and the pimping is like, “let’s see how many dials we can put on this thing!”
MOAR!
Yeah, this is pretty much awesome.
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