Ulysse Nardin

Good news for UN: a new point of sale has just opened at the Bucherer Store of Paris.

My weekly visit at this candy shop gave me the opportunity to shoot a wristshot of one of the icons from UN: the Moonstruck.



I wish to UN a lot of success with this new point of sale.

Fx

We don't see this one too often.

NT 

Thanks for the superb wristshot, Fx.

Best,

Nicolas

... but it has to be made one by Ulysse Nardin itself: persisting mentioning, pointing it out in catalogues, advertisments, showcasing it whenever possible. If you consider the Sonata to be a UN icon, then the Moonstruck must be one as well.

Just my 2 cents.

Marcus

Their first set may well be iconic, I think.

That is why I don't see the Moonstruck as an icon.

The Sonata is unique.

Best,

Nicolas

hand painted enamel globe !!

Very interesting complications which include high and low tides , right ?

Cheers,

Gordon

... over the globe, although only very roughly, of course. All other tidal watches indicate the tides only for a specific place, coupled to the moon phase display.

Marcus

Indicated??

Reading the tides display of the "Moonstruck" is an ease: Both, the sun and the moon disks show dark blue sectors, symbolising the gravitational forces of these two celestial bodies, as well as the centrifugal force of the Earth rotation.


The dark sectors printed around the sun symbol and moon window are their gravitations, pulling the Earth's oceans towards them. The smaller sectors On the opposite side indicate the ocean waters that are permitted to rise as an effect of the Earth's centrifugal force.

Sun and Moon are each causing their tidal mountains to follow them on the Earth's oceans, with smaller mountains on the exact opposite side. However, when both gravitation sources are straightly aligned on either the same side of the Earth, or on opposite sides, their tidal effects add to "spring tides".


When Moon and Sun are offset at a roughly 90 degree angle, when seen from the Earth, their tidal effects compensate each other to a certain degree, causing "neap tides" on the oceans.






 Hope this helps,
Marcus

I confess that I do not understand 100% but the information are very interesting !

Given the pull by the sun and moon to create high tides, what are the indictors for low tides ? Or am I not understanding the functions properly ?

Cheers,

Gordon

... since the "low tide" is wherever there is no high tide. The reason is simply that the water used for building up the "heap" that follows the gravitational pull of moon and sun has to be amiss elsewhere, which is causing the low tides in all reagions that are facing neither the sun nor the moon (or the opposite sides, where the centrifugal force is strongest).

However, one has to keep in mind that tidal changes and there predictions are a science in itself. Trying to depict this by a menchanical wristwatch must result in a more playful than serious instrument.

Marcus

And an example of what I like about UN in terms of originality.