The Electromagnetic Force and the Four Laws of the Universe: Grönefeld 1941 Grönograaf Tantalum
From Faraday’s lines of force to Maxwell’s four equations, and from there to a chronograph of 408 parts forged in …
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The Strong Nuclear Force and the Iron Fist of the Nucleus: Kollokium Projekt 02
From the particle Yukawa found on paper to a turquoise topography of sixty-seven plates stacked by hand.
The Galaxy Beyond the Skin: The Kees Engelbarts Platinum Organic Tourbillon
Thirty-seven trillion cells, a hundred thousand kilometres of vessels, two metres of DNA in a single nucleus. In Geneva a …
From the Roots to the Wheels: The Grönefeld Parallax Tourbillon Platinum
A pine lifts water forty metres without a single pump, and dies if one air bubble slips in. The watch …
Cinematographic Time, Raskolnikov’s Confession and the Ulysse Nardin Circus Minute Repeater
In an auction room in Mondorf-les-Bains, a girl of seven stands in front of a vitrine. The circus inside the …
Cosmic Sinking, the Titanic’s Deck and Tolstoy’s Well: The Ulysse Nardin Jazz Minute Repeater
You are being flung through space at eight hundred and twenty-eight thousand kilometres an hour right now, and you cannot …
A Symphony of Ashes and a Monument to Resistance: The Grönefeld 1941 Quadrivium
In thirteen minutes a city centre six hundred years old was gone and eighty thousand people were homeless. The four …
The Smallest Brick of the Quantum and Planck’s Constant: The Kees Engelbarts Arabesque Damast
In Berlin the light leaking from the pinhole of a black furnace was measured, and energy turned out to travel …
Frequency, the Seasons and the Journey of a Sound: The Boegli Four Seasons
What Vivaldi heard in the plains of Mantua is a vacuum in the throat, a Mexican wave in the air …
Chemical Love, the Divine Balance and an Inherited Cosmos: The Kudoke 5
An explosion that shook a cold cloud of gas, constants that never slip by a decimal, and a lamp that …
The Balance of the Invisible Architect and Cavendish’s Mind: The MB&F HM9 Flow
In a garden shed, the twist of a wire between two lead spheres was measured, and out of it came …
From the Nucleus to the Dial, the Silent Loyalty of the Strong Force: The URWERK UR-106
What holds protons that violently repel each other inside a nucleus is a bond stronger than the repulsion. On your …
The Mad Revolt of Classical Architecture: The Christopher Ward C1 Loco Classic
A dial with its centre emptied out, a balance wheel working in the open below it, and a mainspring that …
The Roar That Tears the Night: The Chopard L.U.C XP Urushi Year of the Tiger
Resin gathered from the wound of a tree, a hundred and sixty hours under a microscope, and a golden tiger …
An Assembly of Letters: The FVF Genève FVF1 Tourbillon Superligero 7 Dead Poets
Seven poets in place of the seven days. A seven-sided roller that shows one name each morning, and a tourbillon …
The Quantum of Time and the Leap on the Dial: The URWERK UR-300 Time Quantum
Could the time we take for a flowing river be cut into pieces, like the twenty four frames of a …
Fluidity That Ignores Gravity: Superfluidity and the De Bethune DB28 Kind of Two
A liquid whose friction falls to nothing near absolute zero and climbs the vertical wall of its glass; and a …
The Invisible Global Compass and Quantum Entanglement: The Konstantin Chaykin Mars Conqueror Mk3 Fighter
A compass that works inside the eye of a bird that never loses its course in the dark, and a …
Starfire Born of a Sound Wave: Sonoluminescence and the HYT H5
In the middle of freezing water, a bubble reaches the temperature of a star on nothing but a sound wave. …
The Universal Dance, the Guarded Ceiling and the Human Eye: The Voutilainen 28GML SOUYOU
From the lighting of the Sun to the central heating of the sea, from the blue of the sky to …
From Cortébert to Tankograd, from Tankograd to Sirkeci: The Serkisof Demiryolu and the Molnija 3602
The precise mind of Switzerland, the unbreakable steel of the Urals and the commercial wit of a Sirkeci merchant, all …
Destiny, the Chain of Causes and the Architecture of an Accident: The Paris Crash before the Assembly, and the Hajime Asaoka Chronograph
A forgotten coat, a cup of coffee, an alarm nobody set and a broken shoelace. Not one of them is …
The Veil of Time and the Five Languages of Art: A Metaphysical Assembly around the Vacheron Constantin Métiers d’Art Les Masques
A dial with its hands given up, a poem spiralling across sapphire, and solid gold masks from four continents. Five …
Destiny and Partial Will: The Great Assembly of East and West, and the Breguet Classique Hora Mundi 5719
Did a driver who ran a red light shorten the life of the person he hit? Theologians, philosophers and neuroscientists …