Baselworld 2012: After grabbing some spy shots of Hublot’s mysterious Antikythera device then under development in July 2011,
I finally have the actual Antikythera watch which has been presented by
Hublot at Baselworld 2012. Fashioned in a minimalistic square-ish
Titanium case, to keep all the focus the mechanism, the Antikythera
watch has forged a link between Hublot and it’s futuristic vision and
manufacturing techniques, with an epoch that predates modern
technology. The Antikythera’s mystery lies in the fact that according
to traditional historians and archeologists, our ancestors believed that
the earth was flat and was located in the center of the universe. The
original Antikythera mechanism however demonstrates that our ancestors
in fact had a vast knowledge of the cosmos, and knew that the Earth was
round and orbited the sun, and that the moon orbited the earth in an
elliptical orbit. While the pieces will not be sold to the public, 4
examples will be made, 3 to be housed in different museums around the
world, and one to be sold at a fundraising auction to be announced
soon. For more information on the workings of the watch, please
revisit my aforementioned stories (above).
Hublot Antikythera Mechanism







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