Dal canale YouTube di 10e10.ch: breve relazione sulle invenzioni che hanno consentito di proteggere i movimenti degli orologi.
Dal canale YouTube di 10e10.ch: breve relazione sulle invenzioni che hanno consentito di proteggere i movimenti degli orologi.
THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
100 MILESTONES OF 20TH CENTURY WATCHMAKING
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The Museum Collection will shortly be available for purchase here
La cassa da 43 mm di questo orologio da tasca, impermeabile fino a 3 atmosfere, è rivestita di PVD nero. Attraverso i vetri zaffiri che proteggono ambedue i lati è visibile il Calibro Unitas 6498, movimento a carica manuale con scheletratura che ricorda la trama di una ragnatela. La sagoma di un ragno accompagna la lancetta dei secondi. Il modello è disponibile anche con cassa d’acciaio satinato.
Between 1968 and 1975, Swiss Army combat divers were equipped with a Doxa Sub 300T Professional. It was the same watch as the one launched in 1967, with a few modifications meant to eliminate any risk of glare: the matte black case and insert diving bezel, and the sand-beige dial. Now the company reissues a 100 pieces edition of the model in collaboration with its partner Watches of Switzerland. The new Doxa Army features a matte black ceramic case rather than stainless-steel case blackened by oxidation of its predecessor, and a self-winding movement.
Never before has such an important private watch collection been revealed to the public. The London’s Design Museum is currently hosting the best of the OAK collection – 168 of the over 600 exceptional pieces owned by the French businessman Patrick Getreide (pictured above), who acquired them over the span of 40 years. The collection almost exclusively features One-of-A-Kind watches (hence the acronym OAK), produced in limited series as special edition or on special order. It also includes many items worthy of being showcased in museums.
Among the latter are the timepieces that once belonged to Henry Graves Jr, the American banker and railroad tycoon who commissioned 39 watches from Patek Philippe. Thirteen of them are currently on display at the company’s Museum, whilst Mr Getreide is the world’s only private collector who owns five. Above, the platinum-cased tourbillon pocket watch that won the Geneva Astronomical Observatory Timing Contest in 1933.
The Rare Handcrafts section of the exhibition features pieces such as this Patek Philippe Ref. 2481 with “cloisonné” enamelled dial.
Among the Rolex Sports Chronographs is the 1966 Cosmograph Daytona with Paul Newman dial that belonged to the NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who occupied the Lunar Module Pilot seat for the flight of Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission.
The London stage of the OAK Collection travelling exhibition runs until May 25. It will then move to Bahrain, China and the USA.