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The independent watchmaker Peter Speake-Marin: Maki-Maki-e pairs of horse art form

Friday, September 25th, 2009

The independent watchmaker peter speake-marin was born in England in 1968. The Swiss watchmaker is currently an independent member of the Association. In 2009, peter speake-marin works quite rich, including art skull and crossbones watch, moon phase calendar complexity of the menu and the recently launched two-horse painted this miniature sheet —

peter speake-marin innovative use of Maki (maki-e) has created a meticulous artistic pairs of horse art form. Maki (maki-e) is a Japanese lacquer surface, plus a decorative technique. It simply is to use sticky lacquer, gold and silver powder will be fixed on the surface of the lacquer technique. From China’s “ping off” techniques to create a Japanese Maki-e art of gold and silver powder. The technique originated in the 7th century to 15th century development of mature, 16 end of the century is beginning to export in Europe.

peter speake-marin fortunate learned and mastered the art of this ancient craft, in the name of excellence in watchmaking division head coupled with the title of the artist carved painted.

The independent watchmaker Vianney Halter watches on display will be works in Oxford

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Vianney halter is currently the world-renowned Swiss watch young designers, many of his products of modern revivalism, on behalf of family is the “futur anterieur”, this mechanical watch 100 years of error-free accuracy, concentrated Designer 900 hours of effort. His other designs also show a lot of retro colors, is the steam punk steampunk style of representatives in the field of watchmaking.

vianney halter born in 1963, his father was a railway station staff, often brought home a number of precision machinery components, these mechanical evoked vianney halter on the initial interest in mechanical engineering. In 1981, vianney halter from Paris to watch the school ecole horlogère de paris got watchmaker diploma. Through 10 years of maintenance of a large clock, watch and watches, as well as many well-known brands of watches and clocks of different R & D structure, vianney halter has accumulated a wealth of experience in watchmaking and eventually launched its own watch works. His first only the table antiqua: a pure hand-made, platinum and gold surfaces, 4 dial, looked strange enough. The table’s back label is Zero “no.00″, had intended to do himself wearing, so there is no number. Later, in order to obtain more funds to develop business, this table in 1998 to 850,000 yuan sold to Singapore Zhong Weiguo famous watch collector. Zhongwei Guo and then more and more to appreciate vianney halter work, and in 2000 to 475 thousand yuan to buy a goldpfeil vianney halter-hopping table.

the year is also unknown vianney halter, now is an independent field of watchmaking division celebrities. October 13, 2009 to February 21, 2010 vianney halter will be in the Oxford Museum of History, Science and Technology on behalf of family futur anterieur watch works.


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