Complications—functions beyond the simple display of hours, minutes, and seconds—represent the absolute pinnacle of horological ambition. The chronograph is a symphony of start, stop, and reset, a complex dance of levers, column wheels, and clutches that allows for the precise measurement of elapsed time.
The perpetual calendar is a mind of its own; a mechanical brain programmed to understand the vagaries of the Gregorian calendar, knowing the length of every month and even accounting for leap years, often not requiring a manual correction until the year 2100. And then there is the minute repeater, the "Great Complication." At the slide of a lever, it transforms time into sound. A series of tiny hammers strike finely tuned gongs inside the case, chiming the hours, quarters, and minutes in a melody that is both a technical miracle and a poetic evocation of time's passage.
Exposition 2022 à la Cave à Soyhières
Exposition commune avec le photo-club Courroux sur le thème de « la terre, l’eau, le bois, le métal, le feu ».
Galerie des membres du PCM
Galerie des membres du PCC
Revue de presse
PDF de l’article du QJ du 5 mars 2021 – 1
PDF de l’article du QJ du 5 mars 2021 – 2
PDF de l’article dans la Semaine
PDF de l’article du QJ avec les résultats du concours
Retour sur le vernissage