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quinta-feira, 31 de março de 2022

Janela para o passado, 1957

Os relógios Ball no Relógios & Canetas online


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Horotécnica, Lisboa, 1966

(arquivo Fernando Correia de Oliveira)

Meditações - how death counts the rings from trees to clocks

All at Once

Trees have whole streets

of when they were planted

plaqued with when the city is

to inherit them dead

of age almost all at once as if

a natural bombing.

People see a bill not figured in,

a blood red

collection come

like fall’s leaf    due without fail

an unseen cost of the design:

pale bud and yellow blossom—

though seeming little to do this time

with tense spring

in the window

of dead and dying trees’ terms up,

with expecting a life by life replacement—

not this plague of life’s time

as a season across the city.

By trial we do, but don’t

know how death counts the rings

from trees to clocks,

species to singled soul

at its hour. or on history’s days we all die at once.


Ed Roberson

quarta-feira, 30 de março de 2022

Janela para o passado, 1957

Os relógios Ateliers deMonaco no Relógios & Canetas online


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Ourivesaria Ancora, Porto, 1946

(arquivo Fernando Correia de Oliveira)

Em Genebra, no salão de alta relojoaria Watches and Wonders

Meditações - Watching the tender hours go dreamily

Dawn


The soft-toned clock upon the stair chimed three—

   Too sweet for sleep, too early yet to rise.

   In restful peace I lay with half-closed eyes,

Watching the tender hours go dreamily;

The tide was flowing in; I heard the sea

   Shivering along the sands; while yet the skies

   Were dim, uncertain, as the light that lies

Beneath the fretwork of some wild-rose tree

Within the thicket gray. The chanticleer

   Sent drowsy calls across the slumbrous air;

   In solemn silence sweet it was to hear

My own heart beat . . . Then broad and deep and fair—

   Trembling in its new birth from heaven’s womb—

   One crimson shaft of dawn sank thro’ my room.


Ella Higginson

terça-feira, 29 de março de 2022

Janela para o passado, 1957

Os relógios Armin Strom no Relógios & Canetas online


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Em primeira mão - em Zurique, com a Breitling, que reformulou totalmente o Navitimer


Breitling reformula toda a linha de um dos seus mais icónicos modelos, o Navitimer.

Estamos em Zurique, a convite da Breitling, que assinala os 70 anos do Navitimer com a completa remodelação da linha deste verdadeiro relógio de piloto de aviação profissional, com a sua lendária régua de cálculo circular.

Cronógrafo automático, com data, cronómetro certificado COSC, o Navitimer 2022 vem em caixas de 41, 43 ou 46 mm, e em aço ou ouro vermelho, com braceletes de pele de crocodilo ou metal). Os mostradores são azuis, verdes ou cobre opacos. As imagens, em primeira mão:





Diz Groege Kern, CEO da Breitling:

“We don't throw the term ‘icon’ around lightly. The Navitimer is one of the most recognizable watches ever made. It’s on collectors’ lists of the greatest watches of all time. What began as a tool for pilots has gone on to mean something profound to every single person who has had this timepiece along on their personal journey.”





Do comunicado de imprensa:

The de-facto pilot’s watch

Not even its inventor could have predicted the phenomenon the Navitimer would become. In 1952, Willy Breitling developed a wrist-worn chronograph with a circular slide rule that would allow pilots to perform all necessary flight calculations. Two years later, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the largest aviators’ club in the world, announced the design as its official timepiece. The association’s winged logo was emblazoned at 12 o’clock, and the “navigation timer”—or Navitimer—was born.

The Navitimer grew up alongside the burgeoning civil aviation industry. Beloved by airline captains and aircraft enthusiasts, it even made its way into space on the wrist of astronaut Scott Carpenter in 1962 as a 24-hour timepiece to tell day from night. And it wasn’t only pilots drawn to the watch’s irrepressible aesthetic. Celebrities of the day, such as Miles Davis, Serge Gainsbourg, Jim Clark and Graham Hill, were devotees, proving that the Navitimer had style as well as function.

An evolution in Breitling’s signature modern-retro style

To create the new Navitimer, Breitling preserved the most recognizable aspects of the icon's design code. From a distance, this is unmistakably a Navitimer, with its circular slide rule, baton indexes, trio of chronograph counters and notched bezel for easy grip. Up close, however, its modern refinements come through loud and clear.

A flattened slide rule and a domed crystal create the illusion of a more compact profile. Alternating polished and brushed finishings give the metal elements a lustrous, yet understated quality. A slimmer silhouette on the oscillating weight enhances the open-caseback view of the COSC-certified Breitling Manufacture Caliber 01. This movement is backed by a five-year warranty, provides approximately 70 hours of power reserve and allows the wearer to change the date—now visible through a discreet window in the subdial—at any time.

For the journey, celebrating what moves us

Today, after 70 years, the Navitimer has gone beyond being a tool used by pilots to navigate their course. It has become a symbol for those plotting their personal journeys through life.

Breitling celebrates this significance in a new campaign, NAVITIMER – FOR THE JOURNEY, featuring the Navitimer Squad, made up of basketball superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland and aviation pioneer and explorer Bertrand Piccard. Each member has been on an incredible journey to get to where they are today at the top of their fields. Each one has charted a course and stayed it through sheer determination. And each one is on route to achieving their next set of ambitions. Using powerful visuals and the Squad Members’ own narration, the campaign gets to the heart of these moving journeys.

“This project means a lot to me because it celebrates not only where I was in life, but where I’d come from and where I am going,” says Misty Copeland. “There is an absolute parallel between navigating towards a physical destination and navigating towards the vision of where you want to be in life. You’ll see that theme come through in these three stories.”

The Navitimer has come a long way since Willy Breitling first drafted his idea for a wrist-worn flight tool. This redesign, with its focus on color, styling and inclusive appeal, marks a new phase in the Navitimer’s journey, one that blends Breitling’s modern aesthetics and values with its historic watchmaking savoir faire to create an updated identity for the iconic watch that started it all.    






















Ourivesaria Aliança, Porto e Lisboa, 1946

(arquivo Fernando Correia de Oliveira)

Meditações - Time and the Garden

Time and the Garden


The spring has darkened with activity.

The future gathers in vine, bush, and tree:

Persimmon, walnut, loquat, fig, and grape,

Degrees and kinds of color, taste, and shape.

These will advance in their due series, space

The season like a tranquil dwelling-place.

And yet excitement swells me, vein by vein:

I long to crowd the little garden, gain

Its sweetness in my hand and crush it small

And taste it in a moment, time and all!

These trees, whose slow growth measures off my years,

I would expand to greatness. No one hears,

And I am still retarded in duress!

And this is like that other restlessness

To seize the greatness not yet fairly earned,

One which the tougher poets have discerned—

Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,

Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,

And spaced by many years, each line an act

Through which few labor, which no men retract.

This passion is the scholar’s heritage,

The imposition of a busy age,

The passion to condense from book to book

Unbroken wisdom in a single look,

Though we know well that when this fix the head,

The mind’s immortal, but the man is dead.


Yvor Winters

segunda-feira, 28 de março de 2022

Janela para o passado, 1957

Os relógios Antoine Preziuso no Relógios & Canetas online


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Ourivesaria artística Topásio, de Ferreira Marques & Irmão, Porto, 1946

(arquivo Fernando Correia de Oliveira)

Em Zurique, com os relógios Breitling

Meditações - mountains and streams dance around each other in a clockwork

Precision German Craftsmanship


It was a good day and I was about to do something important

and good, but then I unscrewed the pen I was using

to see the ink. Precision German craftsmanship.

The Germans are so persnickety and precise,

they wash their driveways. Their mountains and streams

dance around each other in a clockwork, courtly imitation

of spring. They build the Panzer tank, out of rakes

hoses and garden gnomes; they built me.

And I’ve seated myself above an avenue on the brink

of mystery, always just on the lip, with my toes over the lip

but my bowels behind.

 

When I replaced the ink the sky was socked in,

only one window of blue open in the north, directly over someone.

But that person was reading about Rosicrucians in the laundromat,

he was unaware as the blue window closed above him.

The rest of us are limp and damp,

I see a button in front of us that says “spin cycle.”

I’m going to push it.


Matthew Rohrer