The ⁠Obscura.⁠ Part 2, A watch that began in 2017 and then constantly adjusted and refined. A project of self-indulgence. It is my best work and finally I can retire, happy. I am not retiring of course and probably never will, the point being the Obscura is unfettered by expense, detail, materials and craftsmanship.

A watch that could only ever be made now, with the experience, team and makers accumulated over the last 15 years.

In summary the Obscura is an artefact. It was designed specifically within all the normal watch constraints, i.e. a round watch that tells the time with central hour and minute hands but manipulated to look less conventional and more like a mysterious timing device. Something (when housed in its canister), that if discovered in the undergrowth should probably be left alone, or handed in.

This is a watch of suspicious origins, perhaps military, perhaps alien. It is obscure, subtly so and definitely more than the sum of its parts, the details of which tell the Obscura’s story.

Sometime is bits of books that need more time.

✦ Peace!

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The Obscura – a watch that began in 2017 and then constantly adjusted and refined. A project of self-indulgence. It is my best work and finally I can retire, happy. I am not retiring of course and probably never will, the point being the Obscura is unfettered by expense, detail, materials and craftsmanship.

A watch that could only ever be made now, with the experience, team and makers accumulated over the last 15 years.

In summary the Obscura is an artefact. It was designed specifically within all the normal watch constraints, i.e. a round watch that tells the time with central hour and minute hands but manipulated to look less conventional and more like a mysterious timing device. Something (when housed in its canister), that if discovered in the undergrowth should probably be left alone, or handed in.

This is a watch of suspicious origins, perhaps military, perhaps alien. It is obscure, subtly so and definitely more than the sum of its parts, the details of which tell the Obscura’s story.

Sometime is bits of books that need more time.

✦ Peace!

⁠PIPS⁠ / ⁠WEB⁠ / ⁠LOG⁠ /

A short reading of Leo Walmsley's Ports and Harbours. A book written in 1942. As Mr Walmsley says 'We island dwellers are apt to take our ports and harbours for granted,' Very true especially in peace time. I like this for both the way it is written and the enthusiasm the author has for the insane feats of engineering contained within. Feats that he skips over to focus on how they shaped the British Empire. It does make me think of the hard graft and the lives lost for us to drop lines for crabs or slurp on a 99.

Sometime is bits of books that need more time.

✦ Peace!

⁠PIPS⁠ / ⁠WEB⁠ / ⁠LOG⁠ /