Horological Meandering

MTF
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Form and Function: The Aurora

KT: thanks for the photos: as usual very "moody"

I guess we must have seen this piece separately and almost contemporaneously.

Since my last posting "Man or Machine" click here    I am still puzzled by the underlying ethos of Sarpaneva watches. Are they timekeepers or art?

Early work was more industrial and exploration of how and what to do with materials and processes e.g. "I want to make a watch out of the kickstart pinion of my Harley Davidson bike" or "Let's use martensitic steels with at least 12 % Cr and low Ni content (Stavax ESR) instead of 316L steel".

There was some hint of Art to come. Check out the names of the watch models so far:

Loiste=shine

Supernova=stellar explosion

Korona='crown' or plasma atmosphere of a star/Sun

Have we got some astronomical influence from the far Northern realm of the midnight sun?

Of course, I am now speculating the next model is the Aurora

The topics for future consideration will need to be:

* What does Sarpaneva Watches stand for?

* Watchmaking Art or Art of Watchmaking?

* Form or Function?

* Man or Machine?

Regards,

MTF