Haven't really written much lately. But on the plus side - I've got a lot of things running through my mind... Been busy with work, but I've started to catch my father's passion for watches... Granted - he likes
Patek Philippes, and I'm looking at
Panerai's, but still... Panerai is an interesting company. It used to make watches for the Italian Navy, and only recently started selling to the public. The watch/jewelery store I went to told me that Sylvester Stallone revived this company - having spotted these on a trip to Italy - and buying a few of these for his friends... I would not doubt it...
There's something about mechanical watches that don't use batteries that is quite fascinating. The fact that the technology for the automatic watch was developed in the 1700s still baffles me - as does the fact that some of those watches from that era still work. Another watch I'm looking at is a Breguet Aeronavale.
Breguet is the company founded by
Abraham Louis Breguet - one of the founding fathers of horology, now owned by the Swatch Group. Breguet invented the
tourbillion complication in 1795 - a mechanism that counter-acts the effects of gravity on the accuracy of a timepiece.
These days - we're lucky if things are built to last more than 3 years! Can you imagine finding an ipod in the year 2300? What chances it might work then? Still, that said - I'm quite impressed with the new iPhone or whatever they end up calling it now that
cisco's slapped a lawsuit on Apple.
We had a holiday dinner last night for work. It was a whodunnit/murder-mystery/dinner theatre thing that turned out to be quite enjoyable. It was run by a group called
Murder on the Menu - I'd recommend them if you're looking to get a big group of people together for something fun.
OK - off to the weekend, I'm looking forward to this one... Woo hoo!
