[L-800]

 

[L-800]

Hello all!!

Starting PHASE A

Ideas for design : Sundials, navigation devices, victorian archeology

 

[MechaMind]

Cool .. + ... nautic navigation stuff etc ... at the end you come out with a non movement device.

 

[L-800]

More ideas: gears, and FLYBALL!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor

 

[ProdCastDesign]

More ideas: gears, and FLYBALL!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor

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Lots of raw materials to work with...


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[MechaMind]

Yepp.. I think I did not promise too much as the "Brain Rain" also starts upon your heads. too.. much potential to live your creativity... fun rules by the way perhaps you find a picture of a 3 axis cardan, a heliosphere or an old gyroscope.. or just google for Euler Hand which is a kinematic model taken out of modern robitics but perhaps it has an older origin.. similar to a gimbal for cameras (the early hollywood equipment.. old cameras......

Much of Brass lenses and fine wood stuff perfectly to use

 

[L-800]

First Sketch!!

 

[MechaMind]

Ok ... Thought you could build the flyball mechanic somehow from the hands. Miyota also offers retrograde movements but those are quarz. So the torque on the hands is rather weak compared with an analog mechanical watch.
I like the ring shaped hand as a first start, but I'm not sure how the audience will interprete the flyballs

 

[L-800]

The color scheme is confusing !!

actually the balls are fix spherical supports for the upper ring

 

[ProdCastDesign]

Ok ... Thought you could build the flyball mechanic somehow from the hands. Miyota also offers retrograde movements but those are quarz. So the torque on the hands is rather weak compared with an analog mechanical watch.
I like the ring shaped hand as a first start, but I'm not sure how the audience will interprete the flyballs

I agree the balls are a bit off..but the hands can be great... Selecting the right materials for those is important to give it value..


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[Chascomm]

Visual simplicity and Steampunk in the same design. That is a refreshingly original approach.

 

[MechaMind]

I'd rather think, if you could get the balls physically a little bit smaller ( without loosing too much of the impression) as you would have to wear it on the wrist and the diameter of the balls will probably double the height of the watch.

 

[L-800]

Thanks for the feedback !!

yes, the balls will be smaller in the next iteration

 

[L-800]

 

[MechaMind]

Excentrical .. nice .. which movement? for the hands you will probably have to make the balls hollow to reduce inertia ( and see that they won't collide when they go above each other).. and I've recognized you go 3D...

 

[L-800]

...the right ball is the crown!!

 

[MechaMind]

Ok great solution.... But can the arrangement still be recognized as the original flyball device ..
perhaps you could someway use the moon sicle on the left to create a kind of static calendar as shown in your resources..

Have a great idea but this would mean you would have to modify the movement.. you have that calendar device with the turning lever, perhaps you cozld engrave the dial related to this but with a 31 day calendar and put the lever on the open date ring to move around once a month. Perhaps with abstract numbers for the days related to the original.. or a kind of Maya calendar with a moveable ring which is bound to the datering...
Ouch BRAINOVERFLOW....

 

[ProdCastDesign]

...the right ball is the crown!!

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I’m curious how this is going to work ...


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[L-800]

I'm trying to make a model

to see if this arrangement works and make adjustments

 

[MechaMind]

Impatently waiting !

Hj