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My guess is it's not possible...
The key design parameter is the duration and phasing of the time window when the impulsing and synchronisation have to happen. The Shortt and Woodward clocks work because the window is long enough for everything to happen in phase without having to have components moving at extremely high speeds. Even with a slow 18k balance as the slave and a much slower balance as the master the time window is still incredibly small, and my guess is that it's not posible.
I've always imagined it as a marine chronometer, with a majestically slow-moving master balance, closer to an Ato than a watch, is impulsed every 30s or so, while an 18k balance gives the time. This is getting into the realms of kinetic sculpture.
Alex
You have a "fairy watchmaker"...
...who will grant you three wishes. You used up your first wish by asking that all traces of [brand name deleted] watches be wiped from the face of the Earth (or the bottom of the sea, or the moon, or wherever else they got those dials); and you were very...
Man that's ONE BIG WISH!
1) MBF 2) All Sapphire case 3) 10 day power reserve, skeleton gyro tourbi, perpectual calender, minute repeater and not round shape. You did ask for a wish list. cheers PAt
Can I use my wish to ask for extra wishes? :-) my
Choice would be Dufour Grande et Petite sonnerie ( but with a more silent regulator system), tourbillon on the back, dead seconds indicated by a central seconds hand, inline perpetual calendar with a large moon phase display.
soon Alex
Volker had been raising the cows that are being used to make the leather straps. He has actually been living off the same cow as food, to ensure that his entire life is sustained using the same watch making philosophy. eat the cow, drink the milk, use the...
DeBethune
like Mo's (with my birth star chart not Mo's ) + GS reverse face of watch Digitale Thank you fairy! Best Damjan
Easy
Voutilainen Decimal Repeater in Titanium, Black Dial, Blued Hands and Blued Arabic Numbers. S
Master-slave twin balance (a la Shortt)
I want a watch that applies the principles of the Shortt master clock, with a huge, high-inertia balance that keeps the master time and a smaller balance that indicates the time via a classic train. The smaller balance has a 10s countdown timer that trigg...
It SOUNDS feasible...
...but is it do-able without the pendula? "Calling David Walter". Cheers, pplater.
My guess is it's not possible...
The key design parameter is the duration and phasing of the time window when the impulsing and synchronisation have to happen. The Shortt and Woodward clocks work because the window is long enough for everything to happen in phase without having to have c...
I'm not sure exactly what complications I'd want...
...but I do know it would have to be a joint effort from Dufour and Voultilainen with at least a gyro tourbillon. Emil
Start with the idea of a Breguet Sympathique
Which, at least as of a decade requires the assistance of FP Journe to implement, but build it around the recent DeBethune dead-second tourbillon. The watch will only be 3 hands but the clock will be a perpetual calendar for both the Gregorian calendar an...
Here's a dial for you...
...but will it run clockwise or counter-clockwise??? :-) [IMG]http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa56/pplater/Frommilechaidotcom.jpg[/IMG] Cheers, pplater. [pic from milechaidotcom] ...
Roger W. Smith Open Dial...
...with a custom engraving on the movement in the shape of a dragon (my birth sign) and the words "Slaynt Vie" (Manx Gaelic for "good health," like "cheers" in English). :-) A girl can dream! Cheers, Daos
It seems only fair to put the cards face up....
So this is the watch which the 'fairy watchmaker' will be asked to produce: Design by George Daniels. Overall execution and regulation by Kari Voutilainen. Tolerances, black polishing, anglage (such as there is) and final finish by Philippe Dufour. Polis...
Wow.
Much more detailed but we had somewhat similar thoughts: - FPJ to conceive and design the movement - KV to effect, regulate and ultimately to case up - RS to frost, PD to do the polishing and finishing on the edges, angles and escape wheel
Apart from the price?
:) Time only (perhaps with date), or perpetual, or repeater with P&GS. Each would bring a balance of form and function involving a degree of compromise, but I think I generally wouldn't mind where the compromise was made provided the watch was in one ...
Sorry, Damjan...
The car is a Ferrari 250 GT SWB 'California' in black with cherry red leather interior, Nardi wheel and high octane leaded fuel. The insurance is restricted to one driver only and Uma fills the passenger seat. Besides, anyone who has seen "Ferris Bueller'...
This is not just any watch...
...it is an M&S watch... Sorry, probably only those n the UK will have any chance with this one.. Gary
... and after that we might well close...
all watchmaking workshops for good - is there anything worth following such a piece? I noticed that this watch does not contain any modern, freaky materials nor would it necessarily have to rely on any CNC-made parts. It could well be a masterpiece of man...
Come, come, Magnus....
As a known champion of the Independents, and as an aesthete par excellence, you must share with us your wish... Cheers, pplater.
Happiness is a cigar...
I'd be very unhappy after the occurrence of your first assumption. I feel that assumption nr 2 is irrelevant when choosing once dream watch. When and if I get to the 3rd, i'd take plenty of time to allow myself to dream and embark on a loooong tour of AHC...
You're safe, Z...
Only one brand was wiped from the face of the Earth by that first wish, and that brand was [brand name deleted]. You may now go to the fairy watchmaker in confidence! Cheers, pplater.
OK, I've got simple taste
You cannot be serious PPlater. Your watch sounds like a long shopping list. Being too greedy can be a recipe for disaster, you know. I'll settle for something more humble and certainly more balanced. Urban Jurgensen's latest manual chronometer with detent...
Please, "fairy watchmaker" give me your skills....
then I make my own in my own way! Cheers, Francois
Humm... I don't think it is the right way to process with an AHCI watchmaker.
I will not give him any idea, any wish. What I expect from him/her is a surprising result, a new concept and fresh ideas! Fx
Yes, exactly the way you stated it
The watchmaking independent should avoid pandering to the tastes of his customers who may require or demand "a little more of this and a little less of that" for a unique, custom-made or personalized watch - and then claiming to have played a modest but d...
I am not such a follower of this thought...
If I see a painting I like, then I hang it on my wall and admire the artists work and my only input might be which frame and where it is hung. If I pay as much as a sportscar for a watch, then like the car I would like to choose the colour (hmmm... orange...
OK, so don't hate me
...I have one piece coming soon that has some of my desired bespoke attributes (that I can't talk about) and a second piece in joint design that has some of the rest (that I also can't talk about). That takes a lot of my desired fairy watchmaker attribute...
Greubel forsey IP1 with rattrapante
Short sweet simple...reserved for the vernacularly and horologically challenged. Best, Horo
No watch.
Just the skill, talent and patience (not to mention the time off and financial support...) to be able to make one at that level myself.