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Moonstruck and completely loony

You have made me ...

want one!

I recently wrote Svend that there would always be a place for another Andersen in my collection, and I am afraid this one might be it, a little bit too early for me.

The picture with the apple was a stunner.

Newton was hit on the head by an apple from the Tree of Knowledge and went on to develop his Theory of Gravity.

Einstein was talking to somebody who had just fallen from a roof and went on to develop his Theory of Relativity.

I saw a video presentation of what might seen when driving down the road very, very, very close to the speed of light. The objects on the side of the road (buildings, trees) became distorted in much the way that the the roman numerals and the blue gold guilloche do on this particular Kamar dial!

Which is also ultra-romantic, ingenious, adventuresome, highly artistic - gorgeous, serious - and fun!

But can you wear it?

I am not doing an extremely fast F1 ralley, but plunging on past the moon into the Black Hole in my wallet. There are versions in jade and aventurin, an interesting mineral, if you care to look it up - or better, get the chance to look at it; but in the brochure these are only displayed with elongated arabic numerals. Hello Moon, goodbye to the Fourth Dimension!

Ah yes, the dimensions on the Kamar are 45 mm and 11 mm thick. It's an automatic with a Piguet 1150 base and 70 hours power reserve.

My Grande Jour et Nuit is 44 mm and 7.5 mm thick but fits comfortably and looks flat on a wrist "designed" for 40mm. It is hand-wound and (yes) has a blue gold dial face. You need bright sunlight to do it justice.

Too much macro is not necessarily a good thing, as with other lenses. It used to be that contrast was bought at the expense of resolution, good for reproduction in magazines but not for portraits. That was another passion I had to put aside.

Thanks very much for the pictures, much better than on the andersen-geneve website, or their brochures. As Ph. Dufour once told F.P. Journe about his vastly improved finishing, "good enough". Journe was overjoyed.

Warm regard to the Snake and Eva,

Amery