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keyboard_arrow_downCloaca
1906
Apr 1, 2018
Here's another one, the Haldimann H9 Reduction Watch. I saw it on a Japanese documentary about a young Japanese watchmaker, which also included a bit of a profile of the maker of this watch, Beat Haldimann. The watch before this one was a skeleton tourbillon einzeiger that only had a seconds hand, but no hour or minute hand. This H9 has an opaque crystal covering a nicely decorated movement that you cannot see.
http://www.haldimann.swiss/en/Collection/Haldimann-H9---Reduction https://www.ablogtowatch.com/haldimann-h9-reduction-watch/
http://www.haldimann.swiss/en/Collection/Haldimann-H9---Reduction https://www.ablogtowatch.com/haldimann-h9-reduction-watch/
Cloaca
1906
Dec 7, 2017
By the way, when they're not pranking us with Schrödinger watches the Krypton guys do sell a normal dive watch, nice and chunky at 47 mm x 19.5 mm, 4,000 meters, 7-mm sapphire crystal, ETA 2824-2, about $1,650.
http://kryptonwatch.com/en/our-shop/krypton-watches/dragonfish/
http://kryptonwatch.com/en/our-shop/krypton-watches/dragonfish/
Cloaca
1906
Dec 16, 2017
ccockI really like the watch, but I have no money to buy it now, and it triggers my pet peeve of being a diver without a metal bracelet with proper end links. The mesh is O.K., but there are no end links.
DimaG
610
Dec 6, 2017
Step 1: Buy watch, walk around, tell people you're richer than them, get some laughs.
Step 2: Buy pliers.
Step 3: Upgrade watch with pliers. Walk around, tell people you're smarter than them, get some laughs.
Cloaca
1906
Dec 6, 2017
Another one: This watch doesn't tell the time, but it indicates whether it is day or night, and it needs two tourbillons to do that. Additionally, it is manufactured out of rusty steel from the wreak of the Titanic. The $300,000 price does not include tetanus shots. The watch was produced in a limited edition of 9. Since initial media reports date from 2008 and the watch is still listed on the company's website, it appears that sales have been slow.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/253848 http://www.romainjerome.ch/product/day-night-tourbillon/
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/253848 http://www.romainjerome.ch/product/day-night-tourbillon/
Cloaca
1906
Dec 6, 2017
More details from A Blog to Watch.
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/titanic-dna-day-night-what-time-is-it-you-ask-at-this-price-does-it-really-matter/
I still can't figure out how to read the day-night time. There are obviously two tourbillons, a sun tourbillon on top and a moon below. There appear to be tiny stubby hands on each tourbillon, but I suppose that these are not hour and minute hands. The movement, RJ One, is described as a double tourbillon, differential sequential, whatever that means. Perhaps the energy of the mainspring is passed off from one to the other every 12 hours. But how is that indicated?
You'd think that the company was founded by a nutcase artsy type, but no:
"Originally founded in 2004 when several professional golfers admitted there was a place for a genuine golfer’s watch, Romain Jérome produced its first niche watch, the Hole in One Golf Counter. This wristwatch displayed a golfer’s score throughout the 18 holes, enabling players to follow their own progress along the course, count the strokes played for each hole and add them up in the process. Aesthetically designed to feature symbols such as clubs, tees and golf balls, the brand quickly established itself within this niche market."
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/titanic-dna-day-night-what-time-is-it-you-ask-at-this-price-does-it-really-matter/
I still can't figure out how to read the day-night time. There are obviously two tourbillons, a sun tourbillon on top and a moon below. There appear to be tiny stubby hands on each tourbillon, but I suppose that these are not hour and minute hands. The movement, RJ One, is described as a double tourbillon, differential sequential, whatever that means. Perhaps the energy of the mainspring is passed off from one to the other every 12 hours. But how is that indicated?
You'd think that the company was founded by a nutcase artsy type, but no:
"Originally founded in 2004 when several professional golfers admitted there was a place for a genuine golfer’s watch, Romain Jérome produced its first niche watch, the Hole in One Golf Counter. This wristwatch displayed a golfer’s score throughout the 18 holes, enabling players to follow their own progress along the course, count the strokes played for each hole and add them up in the process. Aesthetically designed to feature symbols such as clubs, tees and golf balls, the brand quickly established itself within this niche market."
BlueCrowned
5305
Mar 30, 2018
CloacaI'm a little late but this is genuinely one of the coolest watches I have ever seen. Love it, way too broke to ever dream of owning it.
ted
57
Dec 5, 2017
https://hypebeast.com/2013/3/becomb-rose-gold-infinity-piece-by-levi-maestro
same shit, different day
same shit, different day
Cloaca
1906
Dec 6, 2017
tedYou have the love the attention to detail: There's a cyclops lens on the crystal, even though the face is completely blank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hlESuACOeU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hlESuACOeU
Daisy_Cutter
1288
Dec 3, 2017
I want to like this because it's so ballsy, but I can't get past the fact that this seems to be based on a fundamental misapprehension of the Schrödinger's Cat paradox.
[Skip this paragraph if you already know all about the Schrödinger's Cat paradox] Essentially, under a popular interpretation of quantum physics, a quantum system (e.g. a radioactive atom) exists in a superposition of various possible states but does not adopt any given state until it is observed or interacted with. Erwin Schrödinger proposed his cat paradox to highlight the absurdity of this interpretation; essentially, you put a cat in an opaque box that is rigged to a small amount of radioactive material, such that if the radioactive material decays and triggers a geiger counter, poison will be released into the box and the cat will die. Since the radioactive material exists in a superposition of states (decayed and non-decayed), and the cat's being alive or dead depends on the state of the radioactive material, then the cat must consequently also be in a superposition of states; i.e. both alive and dead. It is only when you open the box that both the radioactive material and the cat's state collapse into one or the other.
There are two problems with this conception of "Schrödinger's Watch". First, a watch movement is not a quantum system, and doesn't exhibit quantum effects. Second, and more significantly, the uncertainty derived from not being able to actually read your watch is trivial. Either your watch is accurate, or it is not. Either way, there is an objective measure of time that is external to your watch and will keep marching on regardless of what your watch says (or doesn't say because you can't read it).
There is a way to make a truly meaningful Schrödinger's Watch. The first step would involve miniaturizing an ultra high-precision atomic clock to the size of a wristwatch. Next, get all the countries in the world to agree that this miniature atomic clock is the world's master clock (i.e. whatever time it displays, that is The Time for the entire human race). The world must also agree that its existing network of atomic clocks is not definitive but merely an approximation of the master clock. Finally, fully cover or remove the display of the new master clock, mount it on straps, and sell it.
This would truly be Schrödinger's Watch. This miniature atomic clock would be a quantum system which is unobserved and therefore exists in a superposition of states (decaying faster, slower, or not at all). Since what Time it is depends on the state of the Watch, the Time is therefore also in a superposition of states, which could be literally any time from the manufacture of the Schrödinger's Watch.
The upshot is that the owner of Schrödinger's Watch will never again be late for a meeting, because the Time could well be whatever he says it is. This is what it would truly mean to not follow the time, but take the time with you.
[Skip this paragraph if you already know all about the Schrödinger's Cat paradox] Essentially, under a popular interpretation of quantum physics, a quantum system (e.g. a radioactive atom) exists in a superposition of various possible states but does not adopt any given state until it is observed or interacted with. Erwin Schrödinger proposed his cat paradox to highlight the absurdity of this interpretation; essentially, you put a cat in an opaque box that is rigged to a small amount of radioactive material, such that if the radioactive material decays and triggers a geiger counter, poison will be released into the box and the cat will die. Since the radioactive material exists in a superposition of states (decayed and non-decayed), and the cat's being alive or dead depends on the state of the radioactive material, then the cat must consequently also be in a superposition of states; i.e. both alive and dead. It is only when you open the box that both the radioactive material and the cat's state collapse into one or the other.
There are two problems with this conception of "Schrödinger's Watch". First, a watch movement is not a quantum system, and doesn't exhibit quantum effects. Second, and more significantly, the uncertainty derived from not being able to actually read your watch is trivial. Either your watch is accurate, or it is not. Either way, there is an objective measure of time that is external to your watch and will keep marching on regardless of what your watch says (or doesn't say because you can't read it).
There is a way to make a truly meaningful Schrödinger's Watch. The first step would involve miniaturizing an ultra high-precision atomic clock to the size of a wristwatch. Next, get all the countries in the world to agree that this miniature atomic clock is the world's master clock (i.e. whatever time it displays, that is The Time for the entire human race). The world must also agree that its existing network of atomic clocks is not definitive but merely an approximation of the master clock. Finally, fully cover or remove the display of the new master clock, mount it on straps, and sell it.
This would truly be Schrödinger's Watch. This miniature atomic clock would be a quantum system which is unobserved and therefore exists in a superposition of states (decaying faster, slower, or not at all). Since what Time it is depends on the state of the Watch, the Time is therefore also in a superposition of states, which could be literally any time from the manufacture of the Schrödinger's Watch.
The upshot is that the owner of Schrödinger's Watch will never again be late for a meeting, because the Time could well be whatever he says it is. This is what it would truly mean to not follow the time, but take the time with you.
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The company calls it a "superposition" watch (a term from quantum physics). "The time cannot be read. We do not follow the time. We take the time with us."
Do you want to be part of this piece of performance art? It's guaranteed to be a great way to start conversations with people ... who will then slowly back away from you and run. Only 2,000 euros, limited to 36 pieces.
http://kryptonwatch.com/en/our-shop/krypton-watches/schroedinger1936/
Wikipedia entry on Schrödinger's cat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat