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Innovative Anti-Seismic Mechanical Watch
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoHaving been to Basel world before, even $2k and $6k is considered cheap for a watch. I wonder if the exposed mechanics are real or just for show (with a simply quartz mechanism really doing the work)? I remember some phone manufacturing getting criticized because the phone guts they were claiming to show in their design was actually just a fancy sticker.
- Sujan 8y agoIs red dot an actual award-award or an pay-and-get-one-award?
- detaro 8y agoMore of the latter: in 2018, more than a quarter of the submissions got one. https://www.red-dot.org/about-red-dot/news/product-design-results-2018/ https://www.red-dot.org/about-red-dot/news/product-design-re...
- neom 8y agoFor those interested, it's a Xiaomi Youpin CIGA Automatic.
- A2017U1 8y agoResearching Xiaomi phones I was blown away by the sheer number of other unrelated products they sell. Someone at the top has a big push towards diversification.
- PaulAJ 8y agoWhy would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock. AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.
- detaro 8y ago> Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? Because it's neat. Prices generally are above my "I'd pay that for the neat-factor" level though, so there's an element of your suggestion...
- kwhitefoot 8y agoYou can get plenty of mechanical watches brand new for less than USD 100. The classic Seiko 5 Automatic is USD 64: https://www.worldofwatches.com/seiko?movement=3563&price=-68 https://www.worldofwatches.com/seiko?movement=3563&price=-68.
- Gys 8y agoI never wear a watch. But this looks beautiful and is only US$150...
- clay_the_ripper 8y agoThat’s like saying a painting has no value because photographs now exist. Artistic value is real value. How an object is designed, makes you feel and how it looks and operates are all part of the experience of an object. I realize you don’t see artistic value as actual value. But many people do.
- mikeash 8y agoI see no point in mechanical watches, but I have a Soviet slide rule sitting on my shelf. People often enjoy things that are not particularly useful.
- dmreedy 8y ago
- AceJohnny2 8y agoIt's stunning to me how this mechanical watch borrows its outside design from the Apple Watch. It's got a round mechanism, and yet it's still using a black square case with rounded corners [1]. I don't really know what to make of it, other than be impressed by the design impact Apple manages to have even in neighboring markets. [1] Flashback to the infamous design patent https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rectangle-with-rounded-corners https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rec...
- dmreedy 8y agoThis is not entirely uncommon when it comes to tank watch cases. Indeed, here is an image of the movement from the trope namer, a Cartier Tank: https://smhttp-ssl-39255.nexcesscdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Clear-Image-of-the-JLC-Movement-in-a-Cartier-1500x995.jpg https://smhttp-ssl-39255.nexcesscdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2...
- test6554 8y agoWe generally don't like to spread anti-seismetism here on hacker news.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoBremont already has a shock-protected rubber movement mount with a floating movement. And of course all mechanical watch movements (except some cheap Chinese ones) have Incabloc shock protection (or some derivative). Edit: It looks like some Breguet watches use a super-old-school mechanism invented by Breguet in 1790.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoWhy did this website require two entire seconds to load a single picture and a paragraph, even with umatrix enabled?