OT: Using electrostatic motors for a watch movement


I know it's not strictly audio gang, but this is cool. Check out the video clip about half way down the page:


https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/citizen-electrostatic-accutron-concept-movement-introducing

Also, it' snot for sale, so you can't claim this is a commercial post. :)


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erik_squires

Showing 1 response by wolf_garcia

I like the look of that Accutron. I’m a certainly a watch geek and remember when a friend bought the original Accutron...very cool for its day and I was jealous. I got into watches when at 14 I needed to know when to paddle in from the reef breaks in Honolulu (can’t see the people on the shore very well) to be picked up by Mom. Thanks Mom, and she knew a pilot who scored my first Seiko 5 in Japan...said "waterproof" on the case and never leaked, even without a screw down crown. Had a few of those...Now I own piles of (mostly auto/mechanical) watches, most recently a Christopher Ward bronze (designed to rot on your wrist, and it does), and a Ball Trainmaster Power Reserve, neither of these being expensive as far as these things go, and I like the "steam punk" aesthetic. Divers watches and chronographs help time cooking stuff when drinking...trust me on that...