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The Midnight Planetarium Timepiece

  • 31-01-2014 5:42pm
    #1
    GG21057
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭


    The Midnight Planetarium Timepiece by Van Cleef & Arpels and Christiaan Van Der Klaauw features six ‘planets’ made of semi-precious stones.
    The ‘planets’ rotate according to their actual solar years: Mercury goes round every 88 days, Venus: every 224 days, Earth: every 365 days, Mars: every 687 days, Jupiter: every 12 years and Saturn: every 29 years.
    Uranus and Neptune are excluded because they take so long (84 and 164 years respectively) to orbit the sun, they would appear stationary on the dial.
    Choose your lucky day and the earth will fall beneath the painted shooting star to signify it.
    Unveiled at the annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva after three years of development, the timepiece is available to buy for a mere €180,000 and change.

    Not sure it tells the time though but looks amazing!


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  • #2
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Apparently the shooting star/comet on the outside tells the time. Funky looking watch.

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  • #3
    GG21057
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭GG21057


    Hmmm - think it'd require more than a quick glance to tell the time.... Not that it will ever appear on anyone's wrist, ever!


  • #4
    paddyh117
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭paddyh117


    What a wonderful piece of engineering. Truly beautiful


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