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1940 Puja Thermo-Pneumatic Clock

Blog | watchismo.blogspot.com | Oct 8, 2008

"At the lower left, shielded by a translucent housing, is a carbon rod resistance that heats the colored alcohol in the glass vessel just above it. This causes some of the alcohol to vaporize, the pressure pushing the liquid up the connecting pipe to the vessel at top right.

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AHCI Adds First American Member

News | www.jckonline.com | Jun 1, 2002

The prestigious Swiss-based Academie Horlogere des Createurs Independants (AHCI) has its first U.S. member: Master watchmaker Steven Phillips of Guilford, Conn., was inducted in December. AHCI was created in 1985 to promote the tradition of handcrafted timepieces. Its 28 members and candidates

http://www.jckonline.com/article/CA225204.html

"Minute Man" by David Colman for The New York Times

News | feeds.feedburner.com | Sep 10, 2008

WHO HAS TIME FOR COMPLICATED WATCHES? NOT DAVID COLMAN. It was one thing when the cellphone replaced the cigarette. But now killer apps have replaced killer abs, and the chicest parties throng with guys showing how they can make their iPhones look like Magic 8 Balls.

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Chronphage Corpus Clock with Grasshopper Escapement

Blog | watchismo.blogspot.com | Sep 22, 2008

The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honor the John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement.

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AHCI accepts first U.S. member

News | www.jckonline.com | May 13, 2002

The prestigious Swiss-based "Academie de Horlogere de Createurs Independants" (AHCI) has accepted its first U.S. member. Master watchmaker Steven Phillips, of Guilford, Conn., was inducted in December. Philipps has created his own automatic winding movement and a handmade series of watches, called

http://www.jckonline.com/article/CA227470.html

Oddities of the Day - Vintage Certina Biostar Biorhythm Watch

Blog | watchismo.blogspot.com | Sep 17, 2008

"The theory of biorhythms claims that one's life is affected by rhythmic biological cycles, and seeks to make predictions regarding these cycles and the personal ease of carrying out tasks related to the cycles.

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JCK Online 06/01/2002 Table of Contents

Web | www.jckonline.com

JCKOnline delivers the latest news on watches, diamonds, precious metals, pearls, gemstones, tradeshows, social issues, and crime and security for the jewelry industry.

http://www.jckonline.com/toc-archive/2002/20020601.html

Photo of the Day - A Mechanical Aural Communication Device

Blog | watchismo.blogspot.com | Sep 17, 2008

Obsessively punctual, horologically verbose, Watchismo, flouts the rules of physics -- he collects Time. Specializing in unusual, vintage wristwatches of the 1950s-1980s, he is currently germinating his collection at Watchismo.com.

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Helicoidal Timepieces of Philip Lütolf

Blog | watchismo.blogspot.com | Oct 8, 2008

The watch design has yet to be unveiled but Philip Lutolf, has just introduced a powerful new watch movement which uses helicoidal rather than spiral springs for power- thus generating unprecedented torque. I just hope he'll push the technology to equally unprecidented design and functions.

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