Complications
Russell996 proudly introduces his Ulysse Nardin Tellurium - Johannes Kepler, the final piece in 'The Trilogy of Time' collection, into his personal collection. This post highlights the watch's intricate cloisonné enamel dial and its impressive array of astronomical complications. His detailed account provides a comprehensive overview of this horological masterpiece, conceived by Ludwig Oechslin.
The dial is constructed from a series of concentric rings. 12 o’clock position represents the Sun and has a blue enamel sun motif on the case. The central Cloisonné enamel Earth rotates anti-clockwise over a 24 hour period with the time on the Cloisonné earth set to GMT. A line on the enamel marks GMT and another on the back of the sapphire crystal at 12 o’clock facilitates easy reference, it is a perfect world Time watch showing the current time of each place on Earth. A fine gold wire is stret
But I'm probably going to pull the trigger on one of these later this week, and I've got a lot of studying to do!
Enjoy the ride of learning how to read the information, with a piece which is now 20-30 years old the critical thing will be to set the year correctly before moving on as without that you are lost. Check that the piece has the info on setting this and it includes up to 2026 as the setting is different for each year. Have the wrong year set (which isn't actually shown) and the lunar and solar eclipses will be wrong, everything else will still be correct.
for any day and location. It can be a bit of a headscratcher otherwise. PM me if interested. Best Andreas
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