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The Benefits of Bulk Metal Glass

A high-level overview of scratch-resistant, BMG production using lasers, from PhD graduate, Navid Sohrabi.

I’m Not Languishing, I’m Dormant

A Modernized Palace of Horological Appreciation

Bovet through the eyes of Bovet. A visit to the brand's state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the recently restored Château de Môtiers.

Image credit Bovet Fleurier SA

Oystersteel Synonyms

904L, SUS904L, SUS 904L, Uranus Steel, SS2562, UNS N08904, WNR 1.4539, KS STS 317J5L, BS 904S13, WERKSTOFF NR. 1.4539, EN X1NiCrMoCu25-20-5, DIN 1.4539, & DIN 17440.

Code as Therapy

Craig Mod on finding solace & salve in the rudiments of computing.

How Hairsprings Are Made

Time for the Future

An antique clock, ticking away fastidiously in a lab at IBM's Advanced Functional Materials Group in Zurich, Switzerland ca. 1997.

Captured & detailed by Doug Menuez, in his book Fearless Genius.

Image credit Doug Menuez

Naoya Hida Caliber 3019SS

One would be hard-pressed to discern quickly that this caliber is built off of the rock-steady, tried-and-true ETA caliber 7750.

Image credit Naoya Hida & Co.

Naoya Hida Type 3A Moon Phase

Built atop a heavily reworked ETA 7751, with a solid gold moon phase display, cased in 904L stainless steel, Hida has done an admirable job executing on the details in this piece.

What Does It Take to Hear Big Ben Again?

Working from a covert location, Ian G. Westworth is among the 500 workers who have been busy restoring Elizabeth Tower, Big Ben, & its Great Clock, “It’s a real honor. There are very few people who can say they’ve taken the Great Clock of Westminster apart & put it back together again."

MORPH

A robotic sculpture from MindBuffer & AUGMENTL. Reminds me somewhat of the wheels on Y.T.'s skateboard, as described by Neal Stephenson in the 1992 cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash.

Image credit MindBuffer

Time Limited Batch

To help assuage frustrations of previous iterations selling out in mere minutes, the latest reference from Ming, the 17.09, will be offered in "unlimited" quantity for a brief 10-minute window, with 50% paid down up front & final delivery TBD.

Marble Moon

Making the 3D, marble moon phase display for Arnold & Son's Luna Magna.

Image credit Arnold & Son

Lego & Rolex

The most trusted brands on the planet & the only two brands that performed strongly with all of the generations surveyed—Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, & the Boomers.

Reinventing the Watch Fair

According to Georges Kern, CEO of Breitling, “In a digital world, you don’t need a fair.”

While the move to digital has been a boon for some brands, other watch brands are still finding their way.

A Watch So Light It Floats on Water

The avant garde tech & astronomical price tags of Richard Mille timepieces. Ben Clymer writing for GQ.

“There’s No Single Artist, Because the Art Is Not Any One Creature, It Is the Collective Action & Interaction of the Creatures.”

GPT-3 writing in Pharmako-AI.

Nemo's Garden

A pioneering project exploring the viability of undersea agriculture, initially conceived of by Italian chemical engineer, Sergio Gamerini, when the harvest from his food-bearing plants was detrimentally impacted by an unexpected bout of cold weather.

The sea's near-constant temperature off of the coast of Liguria helps to stabilize the temperature in the agricultural biodomes, which are suspended from the sea floor on chains. Open on the bottom and surrounded by water, the humidity inside each biodome is also naturally kept stable, and a continuous supply of fresh water is produced for the plants as sea water beneath the domes evaporates and then condenses inside.

Image credit Nemo's Garden