#horologi

[odinsblog]

“First season of LEVERAGE - so he's 21 years old - he shows me his watch designs. I'm expecting, y' know, celebrity strap branding or faces. No, it's engineering schematics of GEARS and shit. Pages of them. Even then, there were none so cool.” - John Rogers

[retroreverbs]

The Aqua Horological Tintinnabulator, Victoria Centre, Nottingham, UK (1973). Designed and built by Rowland Emett.

[astrofutureguy]

NORTH NODE (☊) & GREED

1st house: for self growth & attraction.

2nd house: for beauty & luxuries.

3rd house: for attention & opportunity.

4th house: for comfort & dependence.

5th house: for fame & pleasure.

6th house: for reputation & trust.

7th house: for access & privilege.

8th house: for shortcuts & power.

9th house: for novelty & nobility.

10th house: for dominance & validation.

11th house: for endorsement & gratitude.

12th house: for freedom & fulfilment.

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[heaveninawildflower]

Watch (Swiss, circa 1830). Watchmaker: Jean-Louis Moré (recorded 1810–35)

Case of gold and enamel, with floral design; jewelled movement, with cylinder escapement.

Images and text information courtesy The Met.

[stricklandvintagewatches]

“Guinness Time” tavern clock, Ireland.

[embarrassementofriches]

Watches of Pitti Uomo 106 as captured by Robert Spangle.

[jewellery-box]

Watch in the form of a butterfly, ca. 1840–50

Swiss

Case of gold, enamel, and pearls

[calibre61]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

This is my mom's vintage Kermit the Frog watch from the 90s. I cannot for the life of me find a single scrap of information about it anywhere online. The only result that confirms this watch even exists is a long dead listing without a price on an auction house website (apparently you can pay a subscription fee to see the price, but I'm not doing that). This watch isn't listed on the Muppets wiki with the othet pieces of the Kermit Collection, and it doesn't have any manufacturer info on it, just the copyright for the Henson company.

My mom has kept this watch in storage for years, I haven't seen it since the early 2000s, and I misremembered what condition it was in. I knew something was loose inside, and I thought one of the hands had snapped off, but it was actually the border of the mirror Kermit is looking into. I thought it was damaged beyond repair, but that's a super easy fix. Pop the glass off, glue it back into place, pop the back off, put in a new battery, good as new!

I have no clue who made it or when. This is the entire text on the back:

STAINLESS STEEL BACK ↑ JAPAN ⚡377 WATER RESISTANT V-246 HENL6616

KERMIT COLLECTION

TM & © Jim Henson Co.

And the strap just says

©Henson

GENUINE LEATHER

HONG KONG

I assume HENL6616 stands for Henson model 6616, but according to google, bing, and duckduckgo, that code has never been written on the internet before. It's hard to see on the fifth photo, but it's definitely 6616, not 6676.

⚡377 is the battery, an AG4 377

I have no idea what V-236 means. I'll pop it open later tonight and see if there's anything written inside. Hopefully the battery compartment isn't corroded to hell. If not, I could have it up an running in a matter of hours.

Her birthday is in October, and I think this is the perfect gift. Fingers crossed it still works.

[green5quirrel]

TL;DR: I think Monroe's striking and chiming clocks were underutilized for truly hilarious interruptions when the hour strikes and 5 or so clocks announce it in sync.

I think we've all looked over a very important detail in Nick having stayed over at Monroe's for a time. I feel like I REALLY want someone to explore this in a fanfiction of some sort.

Monroe has several "striking" clocks in his house. A striking clock (or just clock for those who differentiate clocks as striking and timepieces as non-striking) makes sounds every hour, half hour, or can chime every quarter hour depending on the number of mechanisms.

Monroe obviously has a grandfather clock (or grandmother clock as I'm not sure the height of it) thanks to him telling Hap not to touch it. So that is definitely a striking and chime clock. Or has the potential to be as such if it's not silenced. He also has potentially more than one cuckoo clock.

Can you imagine the absolute terror of a person who has never been in a house with more than one striking clock as it hits the hour or half hour for the first time.

Now, ideally Monroe will have silenced most of his clocks. I don't know. I don't have any working clocks. I don't know how most horologists do things at their private homes. If they find the striking nostalgic or welcomed. But let's err on the side that Monroe has been living alone for a long time and actually does find a few chimes and striking nostalgic after growing up with it as his dad seemed to also be into clocks.

Let's layer this with the fact that Nick has very sensitive hearing (though I'm not sure when that happens. I could have my timelines wrong). Despite that, you're just getting to sleep at around 11pm or midnight and for some reason have been oblivious to or accepting of the chimes during the day. Or this is your first night in your friend, Monroe's, house and suddenly the first floor below you erupts in various chimes and tunes.

Can you imagine?!

I'm actually kind of astounded that this was never properly explored in the. In not one scene does any of Monroe's clocks strike despite how long everyone is at his house. I mean, if I had clocks I'd at least appreciate one of them striking.

The point is, I really want to either write or read a fanfiction where either Rosalee or Nick or Hank experiences the sound of an hour in the most unexpected way and grumpily complains to a completely and adorably oblivious Monroe.

(It would also have been a great gag if in the middle of a dramatic conversation it struck the top of the hour and Monroe patiently waits for his clocks to sound off before continuing. And Nick/whoever he's talking to is just like "Seriously dude?" And he's like, "What? ...fine! I'll silence them. Jeez! I didn't ask you to be here anyway, man!")

[weepingwidar]

Sara Birns (American, 1992) - Sunset Horologist (2020)

[arthistoryanimalia]

Watch in the form of a butterfly

Swiss, c.1840–50

Case of gold, enamel, pearls

2 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (6.7 x 3.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 17.101.84

[astrofutureguy]

RISING SIGNS & THEIR PRIVILEGES

Aries: you can win easily.

Taurus: you seem rich at first impression.

Gemini: you are never boring.

Cancer: you always have caretakers.

Leo: you make others jealous.

Virgo: you're the most trusted and reliable.

Libra: you attract a lot of commitments.

Scorpio: you have something others envy.

Sagittarius: you're an all-rounder.

Capricorn: you're treated as a daddy.

Aquarius: you always have a solution.

Pisces: you're a born guide.

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[heaveninawildflower]

Automaton table clock (England, 1645-1655).

Automaton figure of Father Time.

Clock case made of ebony, pearwood, brass and gold.

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

[stricklandvintagewatches]

The staggeringly beautiful Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, better known to the world as Sophia Loren. Here she’s seen in Manhattan in 1958 on the set of “That Kind of Woman,” wearing her ever-present men’s dress wristwatch. One of the first to popularize the trend, she’s still gorgeous, active and a fashion icon at 88.