Thursday, January 26, 2006

The insides


of the Lemania, that is. When other watch collectors started sending me pictures of the insides of watches I thought they were nuts. Now I do it. Not much of the design of these watches is driven by aesthetics. It is like a violin, in that the beauty comes from it being perfectly functional. Bill gave me a book of amazing drawings of these. It was some kind of catalogue, but each coloured rendering is worthy of framing. I'll scan them.

4 Comments:

Blogger Tony said...

Wow, like a Man Ray. Great composition.
(See, I told you, these watch guys are crazy!)

6:27 PM  
Blogger Bill said...

Watch design is really a lot like this site:

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm

Good or bad, there really aren't too many ways of doing it that someone hasn't already tried.

BTW, his page on making your own aiglets is excellent. :-)

7:23 AM  
Blogger Tony said...

I'm pleased to have that site on record here, as one of the most esoteric consumptions of energy. This also comes close:
http://www.airsicknessbags.com/

9:53 AM  
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