Vulcania HD3
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Vulcania HD3
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Named to honor Jules Verne’s science fiction, the Vulcania is a time machine for the imagination. Fabrice Gonet designed the watch to evoke seafaring technology of Verne’s era. For instance, the minutes are read on a disc resembling an old-fashioned Chadburn telegraph, and the power reserve, indicating how many more hours the watch has to run before needing a winding, is measured on an instrument suggesting a sextant. All of this disorienting – especially combined with the scrolling cylinders showing the hours and the tourbillion clockwork visible through a porthole – and that is what makes the Vulcania so compelling, an instrument of mysterious function, unfathomable complexity and precision, like a machine in one of Verne’s novels. Reading the time on Gonet’s creation takes an hour’s practice. Dreaming about what else the watch might do can sustain days of armchair adventure.
Vulcania Naval Watch: What, No Cannons?
Named to honor Jules Verne’s science fiction, the Vulcania is a time machine for the imagination. Fabrice Gonet designed the watch to evoke seafaring technology of Verne’s era. For instance, the minutes are read on a disc resembling an old-fashioned Chadburn telegraph, and the power reserve, indicating how many more hours the watch has to run before needing a winding, is measured on an instrument suggesting a sextant. All of this disorienting – especially combined with the scrolling cylinders showing the hours and the tourbillion clockwork visible through a porthole – and that is what makes the Vulcania so compelling, an instrument of mysterious function, unfathomable complexity and precision, like a machine in one of Verne’s novels. Reading the time on Gonet’s creation takes an hour’s practice. Dreaming about what else the watch might do can sustain days of armchair adventure.
Vulcania Naval Watch: What, No Cannons?
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