Time to "Werk"

Or time to "werk" on time?

I do like watches, and all the technology and skills behind it. Sometimes the mechanical things are not understood as the great peace of technology as it all deserve. In these days of digital things, we do forget about what is the essence of Human Technology: the art, the imagination, the pratical. So, take this excerpt of the watchmaker Urwerk's website:

UR. The city of Ur was the very place where our perception of time was molded over 6000 years ago by the moving shadows cast by the obelisks of Ur. These giant sundials unveiled the mysteries of the earth's movement through space. The Sumerians, the people of Ur, declared that the passage of these shadows through the course of one year should be partitioned into12 units, thus laying the foundation for a system of timekeeping which has endured to this day.

[ Do you know about Qwiki? You can know more about Ur here. ]

 Do you imagine the technology and the inspiration necessary to think and understand those signals of time that the people of the city had?

The precision and the talent necessary to imagine, architect, and build a (complex) watch is fascinating. And talking about watches, is interesting because is something that literally transcends time...

 Researching about the new techiniques and challanges behind this technology and art, i came across the Urwerk watches, and Tag Heuer Monaco V4. The last one is about the wheels replaced by belts, a concept watch that is simply brilliant. Years and years of work and innovation to create this watchmaking revolution.

I really do invite you to watch the videos on the link section of this article. 

The Urwerk company is really revolutionary on the vision and implementation of their watch models. And so, doing justice on their mission: "to follow nobody but to create their own path in pushing the boundaries of haute horlogerie ever further".

[ The history of Watches - Qwiki ]

 In these days there is a discussion about quartz (that should be the conventional view of technology on watchmaking), and the old mechanical (pure art) watches. But in one thing everyone agree: It is an infinite technology architected and assembled in the watchmaking industry, and for sure something for us to be proud.  

last time modified: July 14, 2011, 10:50 p.m.