Is there a rule to which symbol stands for what day? Or do you just come up with your own rules about this? I am no astrology expert but I am not familiar with the concept of using zodiac signs as day of the week indicators. Those are used to represent the day of the week. At about 3 o’clock on the dial is a window with an astrological zodiac symbol. Another complication in addition the time with hourglass minutes, is a day of the week indicator. It has 46 hours of power reserve and is produced from steel and gold, with a large amount of hand-polishing and finishing. The movement in the watch is manually wound and known as the Konstantin Chaykin calibre K 01-4. Eventually we will probably get a chance to offer a video that demonstrates how the Carpe Diem watch operates because it is cool to see in action. It is intended to be novel and interesting versus a piece for precision. No, this isn’t the type of watch that will indicate the time to the nearest minute (or second for that manner). There is a traditional dial that indicates the hours at 6 o’clock on the dial. As the glass “fills up” you count the dots to learn the time to the closest 10 minute mark. On the dial of the watch, the hourglass is used to indicate the passing minutes in a retrograde style manner.ĭo you see the six small dots on the hourglass part of the dial? Those are ten minute indicators. I saw the bare movement and the interesting system they developed for mechanically simulating the flow of sand in an hourglass. When I visited Konstantin Chaykin at his manufacture in Moscow, I did happen upon the watchmakers assembling the prototype of the Carpe Diem that you see here. His last watch was the Cinema (hands-on here), which aside from also having a unique complication has nothing in common with the Carpe Diem from a design perspective. The Carpe Diem is something you can carry around with you more easily.ĭo you remember me saying that each new Konstantin Chaykin watch is different than the last? I wasn’t kidding. We still think it is cool, albeit extremely expensive, but you can’t wear it. Filled with metals such as copper to gold, the Ikepod Hourglass came in two sizes and was priced from about $13,000 – $40,000. The hand-blown, high-end glass case contained held metal micro-beads rather than sand and made for a rather amazing pieces of functional luxury art. The last time we ventured to discuss hourglasses on aBlogtoWatch was when Ikepod released the Marc Newson designed luxury hourglass. Behold the Konstantin Chaykin Carpe Diem, the first wristwatch with a mechanical hourglass on the dial. Nevertheless, the enterprising mind behind the Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin decided that he wanted to be the first person to do it. That perhaps is due to the fact that incorporating sand in a watch dial isn’t always the best idea. Yes, the timing device of antiquity has a very low occurrence of actually being referenced on modern timepieces in any significant way. Second only to the common jest of placing a sundial on the face of a wristwatch, is the suggestion that there be an hourglass.
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