sempire Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 http://www.gizmag.com/hublot-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-watch/20517/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbjoer Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Facinating stuff!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Very interesting, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchmeister Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Great thread. Maybe Hublot will finally come out with a derivative for their fans. At some point there is a finite number of Big Bangs anyone can have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Fantastic read, thanks for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 I used to read a lot about the Antikythera Mechanism in those "Strange Mysteries of the Unknown Universe"-type books. (You know those Arthur C. Clarke or Time-Life compilations with chapters on Hanging Rock or spontaneous human combustion.) Back then, the writers would tease that nobody knew what the Mechanism did, before making some lame link to Atlantis. I had no idea how much progress had been made in studying in studying the device over the past few years. Really fascinating stuff, and good on Hublot for spending a few bucks on this project. Now if only they'd ditch the brain-dead faux-Greek alphabet: "ΠΘVΣMBΣ℞"? Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krpster Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Very cool. Thanks for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Librarian Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Very good read. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subbiesrock Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 ...Really fascinating stuff, and good on Hublot for spending a few bucks on this project. Now if only they'd ditch the brain-dead faux-Greek alphabet: "ΠΘVΣMBΣ℞"? Really? EXACTLY!!! Recreating that movement was a stroke of genius, I dont think it was particularly hard to be honest, they worked off the schematics other people made, trust me, they didn't deconstruct the design of the clock. People have made their own versions in Lego Technics, so I suspect it's not that hard. Point is, they do this genuinely marvellous thing by recreating this clock, and then just [censored] on it by something stupid like this faux-Greek lettering. Something else, Biver made this really idiotic comment about Hublot's history. Loosely paraphrased, he said, 'instead of Hublot being around from 18XX to today, by buildin this timepiece. we can now say that Hublot has been around from 61 BC to today'... It just screams fake and silly, not unlike their watches ;p - jokes on the last comment, the BB is kinda growing on me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Loosely paraphrased, he said, 'instead of Hublot being around from 18XX to today, by buildin this timepiece. we can now say that Hublot has been around from 61 BC to today'... Only if they can get Vladimir Putin to 'discover' it on his next Black Sea dive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxman Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Very Interesting read for sure...thanks for posting. So Hublot Is making replicas now ...aint that a [censored]. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankt Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 At least it's better looking than any of those "Big Bang" atrocities!! :clown: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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