Many aficionados regard fine watches as functional art, especially mechanical watches. These watches are now enjoying a renaissance, in large part due to the aesthetic pleasure their owners derive from these marvels of mechanical miniaturization. But watches are also being turned into other forms of art far removed from their original purpose.
The round dials, bezels and cases of most watches naturally suggest wheels, even steering wheels.
And there has long been a connection between watches and racing, which is now even expressing itself in race-car inspired watches by manufacturers like TAG-Heuer and Richard Mille. So perhaps it's natural that someone would eventually repurpose watches as the raw materials for creating motorcycle sculptures.
While watch sculpture is quite unique and rare, wearable watch art is comparatively common. Cufflinks, rings, broaches, necklaces and more are easily found online at auctions and handicraft vendors like Etsy.
Aside from watch cufflinks and tietacs, which are really aimed at the lawyer who has everything, much of the popularity of watch jewellery seems to be driven by interest in the artistic and literary genre of Steampunk, or more precisely by a Steampunk subgenre called Clockpunk (see here, here and here). That is why so much of it has a Victorian character, a central motif of that genre. Now Clockpunk, there is a topic worth blogging about . . . another day.
The round dials, bezels and cases of most watches naturally suggest wheels, even steering wheels.
And there has long been a connection between watches and racing, which is now even expressing itself in race-car inspired watches by manufacturers like TAG-Heuer and Richard Mille. So perhaps it's natural that someone would eventually repurpose watches as the raw materials for creating motorcycle sculptures.
While watch sculpture is quite unique and rare, wearable watch art is comparatively common. Cufflinks, rings, broaches, necklaces and more are easily found online at auctions and handicraft vendors like Etsy.
Aside from watch cufflinks and tietacs, which are really aimed at the lawyer who has everything, much of the popularity of watch jewellery seems to be driven by interest in the artistic and literary genre of Steampunk, or more precisely by a Steampunk subgenre called Clockpunk (see here, here and here). That is why so much of it has a Victorian character, a central motif of that genre. Now Clockpunk, there is a topic worth blogging about . . . another day.
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