Here’s another stunning Vianney Halter watch design, courtesy the good folks at Watchismo Times.
Relic of the Future – Vianney Halter’s Antiqua
‘20,000 Leagues Under Switzerland’ starring Vianney Halter’s Antiqua. A Nautilus-tic time machine complete with riveted portholes, perpetual calendar, 100 year accuracy and 900 hours of watchmaker sweat into each watch.
Like the receding ocean before a tsunami, this was the predecessor to a wave of innovative Swiss watchmakers to follow. Or if H.G. Wells scripted it — Swiss watchmakers of the future’s past.
It also got an honorable mention on Boing-Boing, which calls it the Steampunk watch.
This Vianney Halter Antiqua watch appears to have sprung from the pages of a Victorian scientific romance. No doubt it costs more than god, and it leaves me frustrated that all the cheap knock-offs are of standard, slightly grotty, all-look-same status watches. What this world needs is some forgers with a little style.
