Vrijdag 1 april 2016 geen grap #Plaatjesdag

Sprinter · 31 maart 2016 om 22:12

Mijn nieuwe virtuele partner

Maak kennis met deze running machine: Garmin Forerunner 920XT

Voor straks … prettig weekend!

Davy91 · 31 maart 2016 om 22:22

Passie & Passie

DEV06 · 31 maart 2016 om 22:40

glengoyne17 · 1 april 2016 om 05:08

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harb · 1 april 2016 om 05:52

Thehaguedragon · 1 april 2016 om 05:55

riesbiem · 1 april 2016 om 06:41

anon55309481HFDA · 1 april 2016 om 06:53

Vooral op klikken!

“Grande Complication” pocket watch number 1160.

          Said to have been fascinated by Breguet’s watches,

Marie-Antoinette acquired over the years a number of his timepieces,
notably a perpétuelle fitted with a self-winding device.
In 1783, a mysterious admirer of hers ordered from Breguet, as a gift
for the Queen, a watch that was to be as spectacular as possible,
incorporating the fullest range of horological expertise known at the
time. The order stipulated that wherever possible gold should replace
other metals and that auxiliary mechanisms, i.e. complications, should
be as numerous and varied as possible. No time or financial limits were
imposed.

Long
a purveyor to the French court, Breguet thus had a free hand. Alas, the
Queen never got to admire her present, watch number 160, known as the
“Marie-Antoinette” in her honor. It was only finished in 1827, 34 years
after her death, 4 years after Breguet’s and 44 years after he’d
accepted the order.
For two centuries now, both this timepiece’s extreme intricacy and
its fabulous destiny have fascinated watchmakers and haunted the
imagination of collectors. Stolen in 1983 from a museum in Jerusalem and
finally recovered in December 2007, this undisputed masterpiece of
horology experienced a fate so mysterious and bizarre that it became
something of an obsession. In 2004, Nicolas G. Hayek challenged
Breguet’s watchmakers to build an exact replica of this breathtaking
pocket watch.
Recreating so many complications solely with the help of ancient
documents proved a real challenge for the firm’s technicians and
watchmakers. The original technical drawings in the Breguet Museum
archives and the material available in such rich sources of cultural
information as the Musée des Arts et Métiers, both in Paris, provided
the only available information and guidance regarding the watch’s every
function and styling detail. Comparing the projected watch with
contemporary timepieces, in particularly the Duc de Praslin’s watch,
revealed novel aspects of the design and workshop techniques of the
period. The research uncovered skills which had partly disappeared,
enabling Breguet to produce a timepiece faithful in every way to its
fabled ancestor.
A work of art in its own right, the new Marie-Antoinette perpétuelle,
or self-winding, watch features a minute repeater that on command
strikes hours, quarters and minutes as well as a full perpetual calendar
showing the date, the day and the month at two, six and eight o’clock
respectively. At ten o’clock, an equation-of-time display expresses the
difference between civil and solar time. At centre, jumping hours and a
minute hand accompany a large independent seconds hand, the forerunner
to the chronograph hand, while a subdial for the running seconds is
situated at six o’clock. A 48-hour power-reserve indicator and a
bimetallic thermometer are positioned side by side.
The watch’s self-winding movement ( called perpétuelle in
Breguet’s day ) comprises 823 parts and components, all finished with
exceptional care. Plates, bridges and bars, every moving part of the
motion-work, calendar and repeater mechanisms are made of wood-polished
pink gold. Screws are of blued and polished steel. All friction points,
sinks and bearings are fitted with sapphires. The watch’s sophisticated
design extends to its special escapement with natural lift, a
cylindrical balance spring in gold and a bimetallic balance. A double pare-chute shock-protection device protects the balance-wheel staff and the oscillating weight arbors against blows and jarring.
In April 2008, after four long years of research and reconstruction,
the new Marie-Antoinette timepiece was proudly placed in its impressive
presentation case, carved from the wood of the very Versailles oak tree
under which the Queen once used to rest.
Following a long dry spell and a violent storm, the Domaine de
Versailles had to have the once-mighty oak cut down, presenting its
wood to Nicolas G. Hayek as a birthday gift.

lenno · 1 april 2016 om 06:54

wat een prachtige Hamilton.
Deze ken ik nog niet.

groetjes Lenno

moonphase · 1 april 2016 om 07:07

Bakje koffie bij de ruitenboer. Weer een ruit van mn bus ingeslagen… weer mn gereedschap weg… weer geen 1 april grap

EricPP · 1 april 2016 om 07:22

majstro · 1 april 2016 om 07:40

Kennen jullie deze al? Er is op internet niks over te vinden maar heb op Facebook groepen zoals Vintage Watches en Chronograph Watches na aanvankelijke scepsis van diverse kenners toch positieve dingen gehoord. Hij is in ieder geval niet alledaags!