Designed for touching up broken connections in the heating elements found on the rear windscreen of most modern vehicles, in a pinch, Permatex’s Windshield Repair Kit is great for restoring broken coils in vintage quartz and electro-mechanical movements for which spare parts are no longer available.
The hands of Garmin's new Instinct Crossover are fully programmable using the company's Connect IQ SDK.
setClockHandPosition (options as
{
:clockState as WatchUi.AnalogClockState,
:hour as Lang.Number or Null,
:minute as Lang.Number or Null
})
:clockState – A framework-level constant for the clock state
:hour – Position for the hour hand in degrees clockwise from the 12 o'clock position
:minute – Position for the minute hand in degrees clockwise from the 12 o'clock position
Tissot has had a 20+ year head start shipping timepieces with independently-controllable, bi-directional hands. It's a shame they haven't gotten around to implementing a similar SDK for their stable of T Touch timepieces.
Swatch adds a touch of Omega's Moonshine Gold to their MoonSwatch collab. Available for one day only, at Swatch boutiques in London, Milan, Tokyo, and Zurich.
While the Swatch Group has clearly deciphered and put into practice the soul of the shoe drop hype machine, deftly applying it to similarly-priced timepieces, I have my doubts that this particular MoonSwatch will cast anywhere near the same shadow that last year's MoonSwatch announcement did over the whole of Watches and Wonders 2022.
I love the character that artful touches like this bring to a cityscape. The mosaic sidewalks of Portugal lend its cities, like Lisbon, a similar artistic charm underfoot.
I particularly appreciate the blend of automation & artisanship that the Japanese bring to the production of these manhole covers.
The approach used by NIF here to draw carbon nanotubes together is borderline artisanal. The end result is a micro-scale thread with incredible tensile strength, developed to replace the spider silk previously being used to suspend fuel capsules for nuclear fusion.
A German-based CVD diamond specialist. Already mass producing diamond lenses at the scale of the cyclops lens found on every modern Rolex Datejust, scaled up, their diamond lenses would make for sensible successor to the now ubiquitous sapphire crystals used across the watch industry.
Diamond Materials played a crucial role in developing the diamond spheres used in the successful fusion energy experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility in December of 2022.
