Almost every word in the name of TAG Heuer’s new watch – the Carrera Calibre Heuer 02T Tourbillon Nanograph – is important. Carrera connects it to TAG’s long history of chronographs while Calibre suggests a handmade watch made with some technical prowess. Tourbillon means you can expect this thing to cost more than a car […]
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Echo Wall Clock review
This was the year Amazon went all-in on the Alexa. September saw the announcement of a new Echo Dot, Show and Plus, a subwoofer, an audio input device, an auto dongle and an amplifier. That would have been plenty, but the company also started dipping its toes into the other side of things. 2018 also […]
View More Echo Wall Clock reviewThis environmentally friendly clock is powered by water
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The ‘Bedol Water Clock’ can tell time for up to three months on one water filling. The invention is fully recyclable and includes both a daily and an hourly alarm.
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This three-axis tourbillon movement is a 3D printed marvel
The three-axis tourbillon is one of the most complex watch complications in the world. Originally based on a design by watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, this type of tourbillon – literally “whirlwind” – rotates the balance wheel of a watch in order to ensure that gravity doesn’t adversely affect any part of the watch. It’s a clever, […]
View More This three-axis tourbillon movement is a 3D printed marvelBell & Ross creates a transparent tourbillon
It’s spring and that means it’s time for Basel, the definitive international watch show. Around this time every year all of your favorite brands – and brands you’ve never heard of – launch unique timepieces that cost more than a few dozen Honda Accords and look like something made by Doctor Manhattan during one of his […]
View More Bell & Ross creates a transparent tourbillonA dispute between two countries slowed clocks down across Europe by six minutes
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When nations fight things can get ugly, but did you know it can also slow down time? That’s what happened across several European countries, allegedly due to poor relations between Serbia and Kosovo — two Balkan nations with a long history of conflict.
On Tuesday ENTSO-E, the organisation representing electricity transmission operators across 25 European countries, released a press statement saying that deviations in electrical grid were causing electrical clocks across Europe to run about six minutes slow. Read more…
But how? And why? And also… just how?
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