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Jones in LA

I've always felt connected to this watch…….

Spruce

……. and it’s got a very pretty face 😀

Jones in LA

Here you can see the Gyrolab, as well as the second hairspring (near the rotor axis) that is part of the dead-beat-seconds complication...a complication that added 60+ individual parts to the basic three-hand date movement.

Jones in LA

There aren't many things more exciting than taking delivery of a box, in a box, in an envelope, in a box, in a box 😀

...which contained what has been for the past nine years, my holiest grail...

I've always felt connected to this watch, partly I think because I was born during the International Geophysical Year, an event that enthralled me as a boy when I read about it in my World Book Encyclopedia. In fact, at a young age, I decided that I would become a professional glaciologist. The glaciologist thing didn't happen, but I did end up utilizing geophysics throughout my real-life career.

And I'm a sucker for unique and interesting technology put into a wristwatch, which I think is why I own the Omega Marine Chronometer, the original 15,000 Gauss Aqua Terra (a.k.a. Bumblebee) and now the Geophysic with its dead-beat-seconds complication and Gyrolab balance.

Here you can see the Gyrolab, as well as the second hairspring (near the rotor axis) that is part of the dead-beat-seconds complication...a complication that added 60+ individual parts to the basic three-hand date movement.

Jones in LA

There aren't many things more exciting than taking delivery of a box, in a box, in an envelope, in a box, in a box 😀

...which contained what has been for the past nine years, my holiest grail...

I've always felt connected to this watch, partly I think because I was born during the International Geophysical Year, an event that enthralled me as a boy when I read about it in my World Book Encyclopedia. In fact, at a young age, I decided that I would become a professional glaciologist. The glaciologist thing didn't happen, but I did end up utilizing geophysics throughout my real-life career.

And I'm a sucker for unique and interesting technology put into a wristwatch, which I think is why I own the Omega Marine Chronometer, the original 15,000 Gauss Aqua Terra (a.k.a. Bumblebee) and now the Geophysic with its dead-beat-seconds complication and Gyrolab balance.

Here you can see the Gyrolab, as well as the second hairspring (near the rotor axis) that is part of the dead-beat-seconds complication...a complication that added 60+ individual parts to the basic three-hand date movement.

Alpha

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