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F.Antl
·There are so many members here who showcase their watches in wonderful photographs with great skill and attention to detail. And there are certainly plenty of collectors of vintage items other than timepieces on this forum, too. So why not start a dedicated thread where vintage watches are shown exclusively with (more or less appropriate) vintage props?
Just for fun and without any strict rules - it’s not essential for the watch and the prop to be from exactly the same year; the combination just needs to look right. A few words of explanation or a nice story about the prop on display would be the icing on the cake. From old coffee tins to classic cars, from analogue audio devices to early computer keyboards: anything goes, as long as you like it. I’m confident that those taking part here will have the necessary intuition to get the ‘look’ just right. And to give creativity free rein, various retro filters applied to your pics are also very welcome.
I’ll kick things off with a watch design ('Polerouter-style'), which is based on a design by Gérald Genta from the mid-1950s, and a slightly more recent four-operation mechanical calculator, the rare Alpina URM from 1961 (winner of the 1962 iF Design Award), which was conceived as a competitor to the iconic Curta calculator - I’ll be happy to write (and show) more about the latter another day.
Kind regards,
F.Antl
P.S.: I started a similar thread on another watch forum over two years ago, and it's still quite popular today. Let's see if we can make this one a perennial favourite, too.
Just for fun and without any strict rules - it’s not essential for the watch and the prop to be from exactly the same year; the combination just needs to look right. A few words of explanation or a nice story about the prop on display would be the icing on the cake. From old coffee tins to classic cars, from analogue audio devices to early computer keyboards: anything goes, as long as you like it. I’m confident that those taking part here will have the necessary intuition to get the ‘look’ just right. And to give creativity free rein, various retro filters applied to your pics are also very welcome.
I’ll kick things off with a watch design ('Polerouter-style'), which is based on a design by Gérald Genta from the mid-1950s, and a slightly more recent four-operation mechanical calculator, the rare Alpina URM from 1961 (winner of the 1962 iF Design Award), which was conceived as a competitor to the iconic Curta calculator - I’ll be happy to write (and show) more about the latter another day.
Kind regards,
F.Antl
P.S.: I started a similar thread on another watch forum over two years ago, and it's still quite popular today. Let's see if we can make this one a perennial favourite, too.
