COSMIC HOROLOGY
There is a small group of highly sophisticated craftsmen out of Europe making the most fantastic mechanical chronometers. Easily six figures.
Have you noticed what they reach for when creating their ultimate time pieces?
They look to capture the natural cycles of the sun and the moon. Times for sunrise and sunset, zenith and moon phase.
Why?
Because they know that this is where the origin of time keeping lies, this is the cradle of horology, this is real time straight up.
RECONNECTING WITH NATURE
These celestial passages can only be accurately calculated by astronomical algorithms. Our forefathers of time keeping, the Babylonian stargazers, knew cosmos like the back of their hand, but it was not until mankind invented chip technology that all of these cycles could be captured on your wrist.
To complete the circle, we added times for moonrise and moonset, twilight, solstices and equinoxes, equally elusive yet essential cycles of life.
Check out this link for the making of the one of a kind 24-hour solunar movement:
www.yeswatch.com/V7movement
My name is Bjørn and I am the founder of the YES watch company out of California.
Sweet!
The Yes watch! 👍🏽 I found out about this recently and I've been intrigued. I love the idea of tracking natural rhythms with a timepiece. I'll have to check these out again and see if you've got something for skinny wrists! If so, it might go on the list for this year.
Good to see you guys here, btw! I really wish more brands engaged with the community here.
Very cool.
Originally I envisioned the YES watch to be a beautiful mechanical time piece. At the Basel Messe in 1997, I had lunch with an engineer from Glashutte. After a few minutes he smiled, cut me off and simply stated that if I wanted to do all that in a mechanical watch, I would be carrying a backpack on my wrist. Case closed. We laughed and had another beer.
Very impressive, this watch needs a study!
Very impressive, this watch needs a study!
Check out this link for specs and videos:
https://www.yeswatch.com/wrist-watch/worldwatch/worldwatchV7-specifications.html?id=NCCivVsj
This level of mechanical watchmaking is so frickin fascinating. The skill it must take not only to convert those calculations into a gear train but to then produce it - it's beyond impressive.
The real world way it benefits us all in this hobby is worth mention too. Just yesterday this was released:
https://monochrome-watches.com/extreme-minimalism-with-new-h-moser-cie-streamliner-perpetual-calendar-concept-smoked-salmon-specs-price/
... and I can only assume that the work done by the people you're highlighting help drive such development, not to mention the flow through to these types of watches:
https://baltic-watches.com/en/only-watch-2023
And even 'affordable' mass produced Perpetual Calandars.
https://frederiqueconstant.com/watches/collection/highlife/highlife_perpetual-calendar-manufacture/fc-775g4nh6b/
Thanks for posting this. It's not something that I would've come across otherwise.
This is actually an ana-digi movement construction. Different than a mechanical movement. The two have very different capabilities. The big strength of the ana-digi is that the chip enables you to do complex astronomical calculations, something a mechanical movement simply isn't capable of.
We custom made the entire thing. Yeebo out of Hong Kong produces the LCD. An older technology, but incredibly power effective. Beats any other screen technology in that regard. This has gotta be one of the most complex ever produced. https://www.instagram.com/p/BoM4Gn-nREm/
We use the largest memory Epson chip made for use in watches and overlaid our own proprietary programming on it based on algorithms received from NASA. Pre-programmed for 650 cities worldwide, automatically adjusts for DST.
The analog hand movement is a Swiss Ronda motor driven 12-hour movement slowed via the master chip to 24-hours. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5x6aDJHyar/
www.yeswatch.com/V7movement