A Deep Dive on a Thin Watch
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A Deep Dive on a Thin Watch
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#2Thin watches are cool but I’ve always had fear to Ben them, especially if they’re expensive like this Bulgari. Trouble is when the watch goes down to your wrist and you move your hand.
Anyway my dream watch is thin but not so thin: https://ressencewatches.com/watches/type-2
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#3I wouldn't wear it, even if I could afford it, but it is an amazing engineering feat.
Personally I love mechanical things, and collect both steam-engines and watches. Half of my collection of the latter are cheap Soviet pieces, often older than I am, and the rest are high-end Swiss watches that I buy as/when I can find them at reasonable prices.
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#4Very good, interactive article describing how the watch works: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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#5Thin watches are cool but I’ve always had fear to Ben them, especially if they’re expensive like this Bulgari. Trouble is when the watch goes down to your wrist and you move your hand. Anyway my dream watch is thin but not so thin: https://ressencewatches.com/watches/type-2
Who is Ben and why are your watches so scared of him?
Re: A Deep Dive on a Thin Watch
#6Thin watches are cool but I’ve always had fear to Ben them, especially if they’re expensive like this Bulgari. Trouble is when the watch goes down to your wrist and you move your hand. Anyway my dream watch is thin but not so thin: https://ressencewatches.com/watches/type-2
Who is Ben and why are your watches so scared of him?
ahah sorry, typo/corrector fails: *bend not Ben.
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#7Very good, interactive article describing how the watch works: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Excellent read! Thanks for sharing this!
Re: A Deep Dive on a Thin Watch
#8Thin watches are cool but I’ve always had fear to Ben them, especially if they’re expensive like this Bulgari. Trouble is when the watch goes down to your wrist and you move your hand. Anyway my dream watch is thin but not so thin: https://ressencewatches.com/watches/type-2
Checked the price out of curiosity. Bulgari: $440k, limited to 10 units. RM: $1.888m, limited to 150 units. The RM is 4 times more than the Bulgari watch.
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#9From the article’s comments…
bronzeberger - 5 days ago - Sometimes a machine can give you a glimpse of the future. This is the watch a Tessier-Ashpool will wear in a William Gibson novel. …
JackForster - 4 days ago - +1 for the Tessier-Ashpool shoutout, if only our plutocrats were that interesting.
Spinakerr - 4 days ago - Maybe if we give them a few generations, like the T-As, to go truly barmy, the comparison would be closer.