Movement shot of the moment

[Yoda]

I think I found my grail watch...

Gronefeld Remontoire 1941..."The watch houses the company's in-house remontoire movement, Caliber G-05, which is a hand-wound mechanical caliber with a wonderful architecture, a 36-hour power reserve, and a frequency of 21,600 vph. It demonstrates the brothers' preoccupation with depth and light, or rather, the way light interacts with surfaces."

Is it your wrist? The Gronefeld Remontoire 1941 costs more than I paid for my summer house build....

[daevildog]

No, just dreaming....

[Yoda]

No, just dreaming....

I was "worried", thought that you perhaps had inherited a fortune....

Dreaming is free of charge

[Yoda]

Not exactly a movement shot of the moment, but this was made by a french maker, Charles Hour (strange coincindence), confirmed by the NAWCC message board, it was a gift to Marie-Antoinette 1789.
My grandfather bought this as a gift for my grandmother on their wedding day 1915, it was already an old clock then...now in my living room. Well, being in my shop for maintenance.

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[binbin]

The Calgary city hall clock. Seth Thomas. Wears a little large on the wrist.

[Yoda]

The Calgary city hall clock. Seth Thomas. Wears a little large on the wrist.

Strap it and you are good to go!

Lovely movement, beautiful! Clean as a whistle.

I can't stop thinking about their thoughts back then, how long it would last and so on....

Calgary stampede, I have experienced it once....

[binbin]

Everyone should get a chance to see the Calgary Stampede once.

If you look at the hands on the dial, there is a trailing pointer on each hand. I've always wondered about the idea behind them. Balance?

The other thing I always look for on the old clock towers ( and watches for that matter)with roman numerals is the number 4. Is it IIII or IV.

[Yoda]

The pointer on the hands are for balance purposes.

4 should be IV, that's the most correct.

[TUFF Stough]

IIII is to balance visually (maybe also the weight of) VIII on the opposite side.

BTW, all pictures on Binbin's post are forbidden to be seen by many (me included).

[binbin]

Funny I can not see them today either.......

direct links....


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uTJF-U ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NsjT7h ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zmgkbe ... sp=sharing