Estação Cronográfica

quarta-feira, 22 de julho de 2026

Ourivesaria e Relojoaria do Socorro, Lisboa, 1914

ourivesaria e relojoaria do socorro 1914 (arquivo Fernando Correia de Oliveira)

Os relógios Baume & Mercier no Relógios & Canetas online

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Memorabilia - puzzle, relógios Baume & Mercier

(doação Judite Torgal Amaral)

Janela para o passado - pianos, Porto, 1913

Geneva Watch Days - relógios Reservoir convidam...

Geneva Watch Days - relógios Marli convidam...

Meditações - Time is perfectly familiar until we try to say what it is

As I write this piece, I am still discovering where it wants to go, even though it is already written. Wait, what? Is it? No, no, not yet, because I am writing it right now. Then again, that cannot be right, because it is you who are reading it right now. Something is very wrong with the ordinary picture of time.

I am sure you have considered the strangeness of it before the little game above. An hour in a waiting room stretches into something indecent. It thickens. It drags. An hour lost in conversation with a lover disappears before you can even take a breath. The clock on the wall insists that both hours were identical, sixty minutes, three thousand six hundred seconds, a neat little procession of equal units. Your experience insists otherwise, and we simply shrug. “Psychology,” we are told. “Subjective distortion,” we say this as if the clock were stating the actual length, while we are simply wrong. But hold on to that shrug. What exactly is that clock measuring? What gives it the authority to overrule the felt texture of experience?

For most of Western history, time has worn a familiar face: the river. It flows, we are carried, events appear and vanish, childhood recedes, old age approaches. This makes sense. Newton gave this intuition mathematical bones when he described absolute, true, mathematical time as something that flows equably without relation to anything external. There it is, the great cosmic current, the hidden metronome beneath every event. The universe as a billiard table. The balls click and scatter, space holds them, and time passes. The table simply is there. The space it occupies simply extends. Time simply continues, like the river, tick by tick, whether anyone observes it or not. Close your eyes, and the table remains, space holds it, time carries on. This feels so obvious that it barely seems worth saying, which is precisely why it needs to be examined.

Heraclitus gave us the world as flux, the impossibility of stepping into the same river twice. Parmenides stood at the opposite pole, denying change as a trick of mortal minds, insisting that what is, simply is. Augustine perhaps saw the mystery more clearly than either when he asked what time is, and confessed that if no one asks him, he knows, yet if he wants to explain it, he does not. There is the whole problem, naked. Time is perfectly familiar until we try to say what it is. It is the background of every sentence, every memory, every plan, every regret, every promise, yet the moment we turn towards it directly, it seems to dissolve into something unintelligible.

Manuel Delaflor, lido aqui

terça-feira, 21 de julho de 2026

Os maiores diamantes do mundo, em 1914

Os maiores diamantes do mundo, in Almanaque Ilustrado d'o Século para 1914 (arquivo Fernando Correia de Oliveira)

Os relógios Ball no Relógios & Canetas online

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Memorabilia - isqueiro Dunhill

(doação Judite Torgal Amaral)

Janela para o passado - retratos desde 400 réis a meia dúzia, 1913

Exportações relojoeiras suíças - primeiro semestre de 2026 quase igual a 2025

Em Junho, as exportações relojoeiras suíças aumentaram 11,2% em valor, comparado com o mesmo mês de 2025, melhorando a performance do primeiro semestre que, mesmo assim, fica 0,7% abaixo do período homólogo. Em quantidade, a Suíça exportou em Junho mais 123 mil relógios do que nesse mês do ano passado.

Diz a Federação Relojoeira, quanto a Junho:

The United States (+12.7%), Japan (+8.8%) and Hong Kong (+6.9%) achieved strong growth in June, driven by a favourable base effect. Results in France remain broadly unrepresentative of actual demand in this market. The United Kingdom (+12.2%), Singapore (+6.7%) and the United Arab Emirates (+20.4%) also achieved positive results. Conversely, China (-16.5%), Germany (-10.6%) and Italy (-21.4%) all recorded marked falls.

Portugal deixou de ser um dos 30 principais mercados de destino da produção relojoeira helvética. A vizinha Espanha, 14º e 16º mercado, em Junho e no semestre, quebrou 34,7% e 34,3%, respetivamente.

Meditações - time is generated by minds navigating possibility and constraint

We want to trust the clock, dismissing our strange and flexible experience of time as mere "psychological distortion". But philosopher Manuel Delaflor argues this dismissal is a mistake. Drawing on relativity, neuroscience and the strange testimony of anaesthesia and psychedelics, he contends that time is not something that proceeds outside of ourselves, but is generated by minds navigating possibility and constraint. Rather than tracking a hidden reality, Delaflor argues the clock is just one model among many, and a poor one for love, grief, boredom and the moments that change a life.

Lido em IAI News

segunda-feira, 20 de julho de 2026

As várias definições de "dia", Almanaque Ilustrado d'o Século para 1914

As várias definições de "dia", in Almanaque Ilustrado d'o Século para 1914 (arquivo Fernando Correia de Oliveira

Os Ateliers Hervé Schlüchter no Relógios & Canetas online

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Geneva Watch Days . relógios Kerbedanz convidam...

Memorabilia - bases de copos, relógios Baume & Mercier

(doação Judite Torgal Amaral)

Janela para o passado - candeeiros, LIsboa, 1913

Meditações - distinguir passado, presente e futuro

Is one of our most deeply rooted assumptions about Einstein wrong?

In a famous letter to a bereaved family friend, Einstein wrote: “For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".

This has been widely interpreted to mean that Einstein’s theory of relativity itself implies that the passage of time is an illusion and that time, like space, has no direction, a position often referred to as “the block universe”.

But despite Einstein revolutionising our understanding of time, nothing in his theory of relativity suggests that the distinction between past, present, and future is an illusion, argues Tim Maudlin.

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