Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/05/incredible-and-unaffordable-so.html
…
So what is the shooting star? Halley’s comet? A minute hand?
If I had a few hundred thousand to spare, I’d love to have my own li’l wrist-orrery! Plus, it tells time, so, you know, bonus.
7 Likes
I’d actually have a slight preference for a geocentric version that would show you where the planets were in the sky rather than how far around the Sun they were.
3 Likes
How much is the app for my smart watch?
9 Likes
In my books, if it doesn’t have Pluto it ain’t worth shit.
3 Likes
Can it track Elon’s roadster?
4 Likes
If I won a couple of millions in a lottery, I’d be very tempted to get that watch, or something similar. 
2 Likes
That would cost a bit more, with the complication of making gear trains that simulate the retrograde motion.
5 Likes
Don’t you know that you are?
4 Likes
Speaking of complications, you’ve helpfully provided the segue to my post.
8 Likes
I love wristwatches.
This is a really neat video with minute repeaters -
2 Likes
It’s so much money for a watch, but the craftsmanship commands awe.
Here’s a really good video of the making of a different high-end watch:
4 Likes
Sees price of over $200,000…
5 Likes
Fairly trivial to do with a smart watch I would think.
1 Like
Here’s a similar but less pricey option
1 Like
*longer if you forget to wind it
4 Likes
can i get instead an Antikythera device for the wrist? how about that? Archimedes can knock one together for lots less, Im thinking.
Van Cleef and Arpels, blech, i have pseudofrench levels of disdain for this crackerjack box pseudo-nerdbait.
1 Like
This one is a dollar. It’s almost the same I think.
