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I have one somewhere. Got sick of it breaking down. My son said, “Dad, that looks like you are wearing a kids watch. “

😁 Yeah, my very good friend has got one, and it suits her slim wrists.. I don't have huge wrists and my hands are not massive, I'm wearing a 42mm lyre lug right now and it's just about right in terms of size, I think my largest watches are 43mm dia. I don't buy anything bigger although I wouldn't mind an original Flieger type B to play with or have as a desk clock😉 37/38mm is about the smallest I have and I can only just about get away with them.. These are 35mm and yes! they look exactly like kiddies watches on me too; if someone gave me one I would gladly have it in my collection, but don't really want to pay for something that I will probably never wear, just look at, fiddle with, and listen to🙄 ..that being said, there is one I've got my eye on that's gonna be auctioned this coming Friday::facepalm1::
 
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Very interesting that it was customers wishes that brought this gem to life. One can only imagine how it looked to people back then, truly new and space age.

Do you mind telling us who the architect you have in mind?

No not at all, it's the Late Great Sir Richard Rogers; just at the tail end of modernism/beton brut (brutalism) and just before the (mostly) grotesque period of postmodernism. The short YouTube video that I posted is him talking about his watch in relation to his practice.

I don't know where you're based, but you may have heard of Lloyds of London, they commissioned him circa mid-70s to build them a brand new bespoke statement piece of architecture, and in turn, he created something truly radical and with its form following its function to the extreme. Some people call it the Inside out building but I think that's not very complimentary. It's up there as one of my favourites, I believe it now has a protected grade 2 star listing; I've been lucky enough to work with them and experience the building from top to bottom, it's a remarkable structure.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/wat...scratch-your-head.171077/page-10#post-2342017
 
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Lord Rogers made his name for his ‘High-tech’ architecture.

The initial famously ‘inside out building’ was the Pompidou Centre in Paris, which he designed in collaboration with Renzo Piano.
A seminal building.

I had the pleasure of meeting Rogers when he came to visit us at Kingston School of Architecture - he was just plain Richard Rogers then ( not even knighted yet) but still a superstar in the world of architecture.
 
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Lord Rogers made his name for his ‘High-tech’ architecture.

The initial famously ‘inside out building’ was the Pompidou Centre in Paris, which he designed in collaboration with Renzo Piano.
A seminal building.

I had the pleasure of meeting Rogers when he came to visit us at Kingston School of Architecture - he was just plain Richard Rogers then ( not even knighted yet) but still a superstar in the world of architecture.

How lovely that you met him! He was really special
Yes exactly, the high-tech attribution is most commonly used in relation to him, Norman Foster and other of his contemporaries. Lloyds is by far my favourite ..I have a huge aversion to Piano, mostly because of his completely unsympathetic impingements of that giant multi-coloured shipping container-like building, into historic and important parts of London, namely the destruction of circa 90% of the St Giles Rookery's.
I think he eventualy become Lord Rogers
 
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Thanks guys, for making my time wasting interesting. I missed the video on Rogers, but i thought of Pompidou centre when I saw the "inside out" Accutron. Now I am off to Wikipedia to read up on Rogers.
 
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