Horological Machine No. 2: pure watchporn
Maximilian Büsser's Horological Machine No.2 is pure watch-porn, whose obscure mechanical innovations read like the demented fantasy of some clockpunk virtuoso.
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Horological Machine No.2 (HM2) is a holistically conceived and engineered three-dimensional timekeeping machine for the wrist. The functions and indications were specifically conceived to tailor to the strengths of HM2's chief watchmaker, Jean-Marc Wiederrecht. The bespoke architecture of the highly technical movement was developed to both fit and complement the radical form of the modular case. HM2 is the world's first mechanical movement offering: Instantaneous Jump Hour, Concentric Retrograde Minutes, Retrograde Date, Bi-Hemisphere Moon Phase and Automatic Winding.
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Looks really comfortable.
Pinky severed? Must be time for lunch!
$59,000 - Must put it on my Christmas list.
Ok, I'll bite - what are concentric retrograde minutes? And when (presumably some time after I've got through counting my $59,000) might I need to use them?
I'm not sure what an instantaneous jump hour is, but I sure as hell want one
Isn't that what they use in sliders?
Concentric Retrograde minutes means that the minutes are written on a dial that rotates (backwards) past a pointer.
Look at this close-up:
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The minutes are the outside of the right hand dial.
Instantaneous jump hour means that unlike a normal watch where the hour hand takes an hour to move from on number to the next, the hour hand on this watch just jumps at the instant the hour changes. Well, it used a concentric disk instead of an hour hand, of course, but same idea.
Why, how...useful.
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Are there watch geek conventions where people parade around with their left wrists thrust out ahead of them, showing off their prize pieces? Because there should be.
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Which side is up? How heavy is this thing? I can't even tell what time it is! I could see this being in a museum case somewhere but nowhere else. Give me something practical sturdy...and pretty...then I'll bite.
But does it tell time?
Don't make me laugh! Clockpunks (and their cousin steampunks) are mechanically inept dreamers that wouldn't have a hope of crafting something as beautiful and functional as this watch. All they can do is hamfistedly glue together ojects that other people have already made. If they are really on top of their game, maybe they have the ability to add a blinking light or something similarly useless.
The *****punk folks can look at this and dream about their next brass doorhandle that they'll hot-glue to a piece of varnished mahogany mantelpiece.