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Agreed!
It was the description of the jump that had me imagining the outstretched legs...
Regardless I am very impressed with the level of poetic and artistic expression that has been occupying ladies watches in the last few years. Cartier, even Dior, and in particular Van Cleef et Arpels, are really trying to create something new and horologically impressive instead of simply shrinking the case and adding diamonds!
R
BaselWorld 2016: AHCI Master Paul Gerber develops The Frog - a bionic timepiece for Sarcar
AHCI watchmaker Paul Gerber , creator of the most complicated wristwatch in the world, surpised me with a very emotional, funny and entertaining 'bionic' complication he had developed for Geneva-based watch and jewellery house Sarcar : a charming timepiec...
Beautiful
But in the video the frog appears fixed on the lillipad. Are the frog's legs articulated to move when it jumps? A really nice poetic timepiece. R
Yes, its fixed to the leaves - articulating legs - that would be wonderful but I guess...
given the challenges of implementation nearly impossible. Magnus
Agreed!
It was the description of the jump that had me imagining the outstretched legs... Regardless I am very impressed with the level of poetic and artistic expression that has been occupying ladies watches in the last few years. Cartier, even Dior, and in part...
Surprise! I've tried a Sarcar watch on my wrist before (PHOTO inside)
Magnus, Thanks for the detailed report. Paul Gerber showed me this watch at Baselworld 2016 but as my German language skills do not exceed the utterance of "bier und bratwurst, bitteschon", I'm afraid the technical understanding had to wait until today. S...
Beautiful watch and mechanism!
Now, the idea of manually start the jumping frog is a clever one! But, what I do next? (the watch shows the wrong time now.) Do I have to do it 12x so that the time is right again?
Well understood!
I have discussed this option with Paul Gerber, and he reckoned that an advanced mechanism which would control 12x jumping on demand would be possible but utterly complicated (and simply not possible to realise within the few weeks he had between the order...
In my opinion I would omit this feature!
If you can just push the button and the frog "jumps around" I think it will become boring rather fast...Everything that is freely available gets "normal", and boring. However, if you have to wait (like a good girl or boy) and get - as a reward for the lon...
But if you want to demonstrate your watch its very useful...
... and all other times you could train to restrain yourself ;-) Magnus