Exceedingly Popular Today, Who Designed The First Bronze Watch?

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Exceedingly Popular Today, Who Designed The First Bronze Watch? - Lugs and Lume

They seem to be all the rage nowadays, but who designed the first bronze watch? I'll give you a hint. The same guy who designed the Polerouter, Omega Constellation, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, and Patek Philippe's Nautilus. The first bronze-cased watch was the Gefica Safari, designed by none other than Gerald Genta. The watch was […]

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theodore
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Nice read! I would only add for fun that maybe the very first 'horological' candidate in bronze (read: a planetary clockwork mechanism/computational device) might be the Antikythera from ancient Greece 🙃

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/scientists-solve-another-piece-of-the-puzzling-antikythera-mechanism/

https://www.antimech.com

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theodore

Nice read! I would only add for fun that maybe the very first 'horological' candidate in bronze (read: a planetary clockwork mechanism/computational device) might be the Antikythera from ancient Greece 🙃

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/scientists-solve-another-piece-of-the-puzzling-antikythera-mechanism/

https://www.antimech.com

looks like the Ancient Greeks had Genta beat. I wonder if they also invented any complications lol.