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Milgauss GV - up close and personal

Dear fellow Purists, I had the opportunity to assemble some macro pictures of the Milgauss GV recently - I hope you enjoy. Some of these have been included in prior WristScans but I've tried to add a few extras. Why a watch that is made to resist magnetism has a seconds hand that is a bolt of lightning? Well, I don't know the "official" answer but I hope that it is this: those of you that recall Maxwell equations from physics will know that magnetic fields are generated by time varying electric fields; essentially electric currents. What better signature for such a phenomenon than through the artistic representation of a lightning bolt on the dial of a time-keeper itself? A clever bit of subtle physics. Milgauss to me is a very practical high-quality time keeper that provides a very nice link to something a bit more important than just our typical day-to-day - fundamental physics and the keeping of time; a nice interpretation for a modern classic. Let's start to zoom in:

Appropriately placed with a text on elementary particles; it looks like a thumbs up!

The language of physics is mathematics

Charm in physics has a defined meaning; but it's equally applicable to this timepiece

The essence of modern Milgauss?

Pure directionality

The crown attracts lightning

Through the looking glass?

Almost 10 years for PuristS

All the bestl

This message has been edited by Nomer on 2010-07-11 15:47:29

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re: up close and personal

By: DRMW : July 11th, 2010-16:25

Very cool macro's Nomer, nicely done! Your mathematics reminds me of undergrad linear algebra, matrices, and vector calc! -MW

Very nice pics, love the orange arrowhead! [nt]

By: kesharoo : July 11th, 2010-22:33

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1st class macros, Nomer.

By: amanico : July 11th, 2010-23:19

And interesting observations about the lightning second hand, too. The " Rasta Milgauss " is a cool watch, whiich will certainly give you more and more pleasure. Best, and thanks for this nice post. Nicolas

WOW, beautiful macros

By: dreamer8 : July 12th, 2010-03:19

Your macros picks out all the distinctive colours and characteristics peculiar to the GV. After looking at your beautiful pictures, I put away my relatively newly acquired vintage gmt 16750 ,5513 and Tudor snowflake I had on rotation and put on my GV.

Milgauss GV - up close and personal

Milgauss GV - up close and personal

re: up close and personal

Very nice pics, love the orange arrowhead! [nt]

1st class macros, Nomer.

WOW, beautiful macros

Great post, and thanks for the new Mashead picture ! [nt]

Thanks all - and it's a treat to contribute to the masthead [nt]

Wow!...

Great pictures of the GV. Thanks for sharing. [nt]