Date: 14/04/2023 00:15:25
From: roughbarked
ID: 2019042
Subject: About watches and the people who play with them.
Date: 14/04/2023 01:00:47
From: dv
ID: 2019058
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
Date: 14/04/2023 01:09:56
From: roughbarked
ID: 2019060
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
dv said:
Nerrrrrd
I am a watch nerd if that is where you want to put me.
Think of it as akin to the man in charge of how the Westgate bridge didn’t stand up.
and see how I kept the world running on $22 per week.
Date: 14/04/2023 21:15:09
From: Ogmog
ID: 2019324
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
dv said:
Nerrrrrd
Nerd?
…perhaps…
but he instructed me in
How-To Fix my Anniversary Clock
(sight unseen) from miles away with my only input
being that I lived on the ground floor of an apartment building,
with a family of kids that use to bOuNcE down the stairs all day & nite.
Date: 16/04/2023 11:25:02
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 2019831
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
I took apart a clock once. Couldn’t reassemble it.
Date: 16/04/2023 12:36:43
From: roughbarked
ID: 2019885
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
mollwollfumble said:
I took apart a clock once. Couldn’t reassemble it.
This is what happened to a lot of aspiring clock repairers.
Date: 23/05/2023 11:19:57
From: roughbarked
ID: 2034443
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
Watchmaker Joshua Shapiro gripped the machine’s worn handle with his left hand and exhaled.
Standing at the helm of the 100-year-old “rose engine,” he peered through a microscope at a small, square slab of German silver illuminated by a gooseneck lamp.
Shapiro turned the handle. The rose engine came alive.
Wheels rotated in concert. Rosettes spun. And shards of the silvery material were ejected from the plate where the machine’s cutter made contact.
Shapiro, 38, was practicing the pattern that would decorate part of the dial on his new watch. He hoped the timepiece, called Resurgence, would revive a once-great American industry. Shapiro’s watch would be almost fully made in the U.S. — something that hasn’t been done in a half century or so.
On this day, he was adorning the German silver — a fancy name for nickel — with moiré, a wavy motif occasionally seen on high-end watches. This decorative technique is know as guilloché, which was invented in the 1500s and also is known as engine turning. Only a handful of watchmakers in the U.S. know how to do it.
After honing the pattern — and some hand wringing over just how wavy it should be — Shapiro would make the final part in sterling silver. He estimated he’d spent upward of 30 hours designing and fabricating this piece for the watch, a prototype of Resurgence.
It’s part of a process that spanned thousands of hours and began 12 years ago.
“That’s when I got into this and had this wild dream of making my own watch — making every part of a watch,” he said. “It’s been a huge journey.”
Indeed, J.N. Shapiro Watches’ latest project is without equal in contemporary American watchmaking. Resurgence, which debuted Monday, starts at $70,000 in a steel case. Versions in other metals, including tantalum, begin at $80,000.
The Inglewood company aims to make about 30 a year, and each watch will have “U.S. made” engraved on the movement — the mechanical innards that power a traditional timepiece. (Think: gears, wheels, levers and springs.) Shapiro has done his research, and believes Resurgence complies with strict Federal Trade Commission rules that dictate when a consumer good warrants the “U.S. made” designation.
to read more
Date: 15/06/2023 10:52:00
From: roughbarked
ID: 2043506
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
Date: 16/08/2023 22:16:32
From: roughbarked
ID: 2065765
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
Watch an 18th century watchmaker make all by hand – plates, balance cocks, balances, balance springs, fusees, pinions and the verge all with a hand drill!
Originally filmed by the National Museum Liverpool in 2002 it says. Reposted by Philip from the Born and raised in Prescot FB group
Date: 10/01/2024 09:32:05
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112471
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
This rare automaton was conceived and created, in all likelihood circa 1815, by the famous Frères Rochat with a design based on a cavalry pistol. When the hammer is cocked, pulling the trigger releases a hummingbird instead of the firearm’s traditional sight. The bird performs a pirouette, opens its beak, turns its head, flaps its tail and wings, all of this while singing a lively tune, before disappearing as surprisingly as it appeared.
Sadly, when it arrived in the hands of Parmigiani Fleurier’s restorers, this beautiful automaton was damaged in many respects. The passing of time had taken its toll on the mechanism and over the decades, no less than six interventions had been carried-out on the artifact, most of which were rash, faulty and had ended up distorting the piece as a whole.
Parmigiani Fleurier’s restorers had to start from scratch, unraveling the mysteries of the mechanism one by one. They refurbished every single part of the object, from the gear wheels to the enamel and bird’s feathers. And today, after this twelve-month journey, the masterpiece has been restored to its former glory.
In 2016, after twelve months of work, Parmigiani Fleurier has brought back to life a unique object from the Sandoz Family Collection: the double-barrel pistol and its songbird.
Parmigiani Fleurier is one of the only watch companies in the world that possesses a Restauration workshop. It’s a secondary activity within the manufacture, when you consider its three dedicated watchmakers, the small work premises they are busy in, but the impact of Restauration on Parmigiani Fleurier’s expertise is colossal.
Video link
Date: 10/01/2024 09:54:29
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112490
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
More on Parmigiani Fleurier.
La Rose Carée
Date: 10/01/2024 10:00:38
From: captain_spalding
ID: 2112493
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
More on Parmigiani Fleurier.
La Rose Carée
There was a music box similar to that on an old Sherlock Holmes movie that i watched on Youtube a few nights back.
This one, ‘Dressed to Kill’, at the 12min 35 sec mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KMgDbxuXoE&list=PLSw44_vYFutscmdACChSR-4eVvizglrDI&index=13
Date: 10/01/2024 10:06:27
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112498
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
More on Parmigiani Fleurier.
La Rose Carée
There was a music box similar to that on an old Sherlock Holmes movie that i watched on Youtube a few nights back.
This one, ‘Dressed to Kill’, at the 12min 35 sec mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KMgDbxuXoE&list=PLSw44_vYFutscmdACChSR-4eVvizglrDI&index=13
:) yes they came in all shapes and sizes.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:17:54
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112741
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
A tad dirty and sans its case because some scrapper removed this from its case to melt the case down. All the good gold watches that aren’t in collectors hands have had this sacrilege happen to them.
This is by one of the masters, Agassiz who was heavily involved with Longines. Is a split seconds chronograph from about 1894.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:19:05
From: captain_spalding
ID: 2112742
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
A tad dirty and sans its case because some scrapper removed this from its case to melt the case down. All the good gold watches that aren’t in collectors hands have had this sacrilege happen to them.
This is by one of the masters, Agassiz who was heavily involved with Longines. Is a split seconds chronograph from about 1894.
It’s beautiful.
I’ll give you $10 for it.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:19:11
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112743
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
A tad dirty and sans its case because some scrapper removed this from its case to melt the case down. All the good gold watches that aren’t in collectors hands have had this sacrilege happen to them.
This is by one of the masters, Agassiz who was heavily involved with Longines. Is a split seconds chronograph from about 1894.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:22:08
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112745
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
A tad dirty and sans its case because some scrapper removed this from its case to melt the case down. All the good gold watches that aren’t in collectors hands have had this sacrilege happen to them.
This is by one of the masters, Agassiz who was heavily involved with Longines. Is a split seconds chronograph from about 1894.
It’s beautiful.
I’ll give you $10 for it.
LOL. I haven’t watched the auction but the bloke who buys a lot of these and has designed his own program to print up cases so that they can go back in a case, usually pays somewhere between 30 and 50 bucks for them. Maybe sometimes up to $100 if somebody else wants it.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:23:44
From: transition
ID: 2112748
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
little car can have new engine oil tomorrow, and spark plugs, gots a bit of bypass the engine has, those pistons, pistons rings, bores, not all snug like new, I does what I can to keep it happy, longevity ya knows, makes it last longer long time
Date: 10/01/2024 19:25:14
From: transition
ID: 2112749
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
transition said:
little car can have new engine oil tomorrow, and spark plugs, gots a bit of bypass the engine has, those pistons, pistons rings, bores, not all snug like new, I does what I can to keep it happy, longevity ya knows, makes it last longer long time
maybe inappropriately in an inappropriate thread, forgives me
Date: 10/01/2024 19:26:23
From: captain_spalding
ID: 2112751
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
transition said:
transition said:
little car can have new engine oil tomorrow, and spark plugs, gots a bit of bypass the engine has, those pistons, pistons rings, bores, not all snug like new, I does what I can to keep it happy, longevity ya knows, makes it last longer long time
maybe inappropriately in an inappropriate thread, forgives me
S’ok; you good kid.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:29:33
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112754
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
A tad dirty and sans its case because some scrapper removed this from its case to melt the case down. All the good gold watches that aren’t in collectors hands have had this sacrilege happen to them.
This is by one of the masters, Agassiz who was heavily involved with Longines. Is a split seconds chronograph from about 1894.
It’s beautiful.
I’ll give you $10 for it.
LOL. I haven’t watched the auction but the bloke who buys a lot of these and has designed his own program to print up cases so that they can go back in a case, usually pays somewhere between 30 and 50 bucks for them. Maybe sometimes up to $100 if somebody else wants it.
Like this:
He also has made wristwatch cases for them.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:32:18
From: captain_spalding
ID: 2112757
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
What prices does he sell them for?
Date: 10/01/2024 19:34:00
From: Michael V
ID: 2112758
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
It’s beautiful.
I’ll give you $10 for it.
LOL. I haven’t watched the auction but the bloke who buys a lot of these and has designed his own program to print up cases so that they can go back in a case, usually pays somewhere between 30 and 50 bucks for them. Maybe sometimes up to $100 if somebody else wants it.
Like this:
He also has made wristwatch cases for them.
Nice.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:35:42
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112761
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
captain_spalding said:
What prices does he sell them for?
Special orders. That pocket watch he made to give to a good friend.
I’ll ask for you if you wish.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:37:36
From: captain_spalding
ID: 2112762
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
What prices does he sell them for?
Special orders. That pocket watch he made to give to a good friend.
I’ll ask for you if you wish.
No, but thanks anyway. I’m sure that i couldn’t afford them.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:40:30
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112763
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
What prices does he sell them for?
Special orders. That pocket watch he made to give to a good friend.
I’ll ask for you if you wish.
No, but thanks anyway. I’m sure that i couldn’t afford them.
You’ve likely got more money than me, that is spare like.
That is a branded Tiffany with an Agassiz Longines in it. Tiffany only bought the very best movements to put their name on.
Date: 10/01/2024 19:41:49
From: roughbarked
ID: 2112765
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
Special orders. That pocket watch he made to give to a good friend.
I’ll ask for you if you wish.
No, but thanks anyway. I’m sure that i couldn’t afford them.
You’ve likely got more money than me, that is spare like.
That is a branded Tiffany with an Agassiz Longines in it. Tiffany only bought the very best movements to put their name on.
‘Tis unfortunate that a very good casemaker had made the case for it and some dipshit melted it for the used gold price.
Date: 15/01/2024 08:46:40
From: roughbarked
ID: 2114509
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
John Harrisson is probably banging on the coffiin lid.
At the Greenwich Observatory:
You can now buy a commemorative watch stamped with his name and the dates of his birth and death.
Made in China and a piece of cheap chrome plated shit.
Date: 15/01/2024 09:17:02
From: captain_spalding
ID: 2114518
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
John Harrisson is probably banging on the coffiin lid.
At the Greenwich Observatory:
You can now buy a commemorative watch stamped with his name and the dates of his birth and death.
Made in China and a piece of cheap chrome plated shit.
Just how big is the John Harrison Fan Club, that this would be thought of as a good marketing ploy? (Obvious answer: bigger than i thought, anyway.)
Date: 15/01/2024 09:21:32
From: roughbarked
ID: 2114522
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
captain_spalding said:
roughbarked said:
John Harrisson is probably banging on the coffiin lid.
At the Greenwich Observatory:
You can now buy a commemorative watch stamped with his name and the dates of his birth and death.
Made in China and a piece of cheap chrome plated shit.
Just how big is the John Harrison Fan Club, that this would be thought of as a good marketing ploy? (Obvious answer: bigger than i thought, anyway.)
Well I’m a fan of J.H’s work but I’ve seen enough of this Chinese crap not to be fooled into buying one for a keepsake.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:19:41
From: roughbarked
ID: 2197637
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
Mid C19th Russian Bronnikov – only 500 made by the family over many years and about half that known to exist. Currently needing some TLC. Unusual and somewhat rare.
“Bronnikov Wood & Bone Pocket Watch – 1865
€21.000
Whether you are a (pocket) watch enthousiast, seeking rarities or even a woodworker; you will be amazed by this delicate piece of art. As if it left Mikhail Bronnikov’s workshop yesterday, we present to you today; a functional watch made out of birchwood and ivory. Unique in its kind and therefore widely renowned and celebrated by watchmakers all over the world. Scroll down to read more about one of the finest examples still in existence, enjoy.”:https://tempusfugitwatches.com/collection/bronnikov-wood-bone-pocket-watch/
Date: 19/09/2024 12:24:29
From: roughbarked
ID: 2197643
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
Mid C19th Russian Bronnikov – only 500 made by the family over many years and about half that known to exist. Currently needing some TLC. Unusual and somewhat rare.
Bronnikov Wood & Bone Pocket Watch – 1865
€21.000
Whether you are a (pocket) watch enthousiast, seeking rarities or even a woodworker; you will be amazed by this delicate piece of art. As if it left Mikhail Bronnikov’s workshop yesterday, we present to you today; a functional watch made out of birchwood and ivory. Unique in its kind and therefore widely renowned and celebrated by watchmakers all over the world. Scroll down to read more about one of the finest examples still in existence, enjoy.
Tried to fix the link.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:27:33
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 2197647
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Mid C19th Russian Bronnikov – only 500 made by the family over many years and about half that known to exist. Currently needing some TLC. Unusual and somewhat rare.
Bronnikov Wood & Bone Pocket Watch – 1865
€21.000
Whether you are a (pocket) watch enthousiast, seeking rarities or even a woodworker; you will be amazed by this delicate piece of art. As if it left Mikhail Bronnikov’s workshop yesterday, we present to you today; a functional watch made out of birchwood and ivory. Unique in its kind and therefore widely renowned and celebrated by watchmakers all over the world. Scroll down to read more about one of the finest examples still in existence, enjoy.
Tried to fix the link.
21 Euro seems a reasonable price.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:28:58
From: roughbarked
ID: 2197649
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
roughbarked said:
Mid C19th Russian Bronnikov – only 500 made by the family over many years and about half that known to exist. Currently needing some TLC. Unusual and somewhat rare.
Bronnikov Wood & Bone Pocket Watch – 1865
€21.000
Whether you are a (pocket) watch enthousiast, seeking rarities or even a woodworker; you will be amazed by this delicate piece of art. As if it left Mikhail Bronnikov’s workshop yesterday, we present to you today; a functional watch made out of birchwood and ivory. Unique in its kind and therefore widely renowned and celebrated by watchmakers all over the world. Scroll down to read more about one of the finest examples still in existence, enjoy.
Tried to fix the link.
21 Euro seems a reasonable price.
Methinks you aren’t counting the zeroes.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:31:56
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 2197650
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Tried to fix the link.
21 Euro seems a reasonable price.
Methinks you aren’t counting the zeroes.
I’d be happy to pay an additional 0 thousandths of a Euro, if required.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:33:01
From: Bubblecar
ID: 2197651
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
Mid C19th Russian Bronnikov – only 500 made by the family over many years and about half that known to exist. Currently needing some TLC. Unusual and somewhat rare.
“Bronnikov Wood & Bone Pocket Watch – 1865
€21.000
Whether you are a (pocket) watch enthousiast, seeking rarities or even a woodworker; you will be amazed by this delicate piece of art. As if it left Mikhail Bronnikov’s workshop yesterday, we present to you today; a functional watch made out of birchwood and ivory. Unique in its kind and therefore widely renowned and celebrated by watchmakers all over the world. Scroll down to read more about one of the finest examples still in existence, enjoy.”:https://tempusfugitwatches.com/collection/bronnikov-wood-bone-pocket-watch/
It is an impressive timepiece. Looks like the chain is made of wood as well.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:33:18
From: roughbarked
ID: 2197652
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
21 Euro seems a reasonable price.
Methinks you aren’t counting the zeroes.
I’d be happy to pay an additional 0 thousandths of a Euro, if required.
:)
It is about all I could afford as well.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:33:54
From: roughbarked
ID: 2197653
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Mid C19th Russian Bronnikov – only 500 made by the family over many years and about half that known to exist. Currently needing some TLC. Unusual and somewhat rare.
“Bronnikov Wood & Bone Pocket Watch – 1865
€21.000
Whether you are a (pocket) watch enthousiast, seeking rarities or even a woodworker; you will be amazed by this delicate piece of art. As if it left Mikhail Bronnikov’s workshop yesterday, we present to you today; a functional watch made out of birchwood and ivory. Unique in its kind and therefore widely renowned and celebrated by watchmakers all over the world. Scroll down to read more about one of the finest examples still in existence, enjoy.”:https://tempusfugitwatches.com/collection/bronnikov-wood-bone-pocket-watch/
It is an impressive timepiece. Looks like the chain is made of wood as well.
Yep. and so is the case.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:35:46
From: roughbarked
ID: 2197656
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
Bubblecar said:
roughbarked said:
Mid C19th Russian Bronnikov – only 500 made by the family over many years and about half that known to exist. Currently needing some TLC. Unusual and somewhat rare.
“Bronnikov Wood & Bone Pocket Watch – 1865
€21.000
Whether you are a (pocket) watch enthousiast, seeking rarities or even a woodworker; you will be amazed by this delicate piece of art. As if it left Mikhail Bronnikov’s workshop yesterday, we present to you today; a functional watch made out of birchwood and ivory. Unique in its kind and therefore widely renowned and celebrated by watchmakers all over the world. Scroll down to read more about one of the finest examples still in existence, enjoy.”:https://tempusfugitwatches.com/collection/bronnikov-wood-bone-pocket-watch/
It is an impressive timepiece. Looks like the chain is made of wood as well.
Yep. and so is the case.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:36:44
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 2197657
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
Tried to fix the link.
21 Euro seems a reasonable price.
Methinks you aren’t counting the zeroes.
Rev would be sorely disappointed at the checkout in a German supermarket.
Date: 19/09/2024 12:38:24
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 2197659
Subject: re: About watches and the people who play with them.
Little gears spinning around, do da, do da, little gears spinning around all do da day.
