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2010*smiths
Joined: 18 Apr 2013 Posts: 52 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 3:48 am Post subject: My 'Curta' Wristwatch |
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Firstly, a quick introduction. My name is Matthew, I am British and currently live in Colombia with my family. I have had an interest in vintage mechanical calculators ever since my father gave me an old ADM-Schubert pin wheel calculator sometime in the mid-1980's.
Since then, I have gradually built up a modest collection, including five Curtas, representing some of the main variations in production models. They are all in good working order, and were built to last so the 1968 Type I stays in my office where it still sees regular use. Here are the older four:
One of my other main interests is wristwatches. I thought that it would be fun to try to create a personal 'homage' watch loosely based on the Curta. I have documented the process on the TZ-UK watch forum, so rather than reproduce it here in full, this is the link:
http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?355407-The-Curta-Amphibia
Here is a photograph of the finished article:
I hope this is of some interest here, and forgive me if I have posted in the wrong place. Thanks for your time.
Matthew |
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murff
Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 594 Location: Switzerland
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Cool... and very inspiring!
[ a quick Monday morning design study... ] _________________ :: m u r f f
:: curta.li
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2010*smiths
Joined: 18 Apr 2013 Posts: 52 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! I'm very pleased with the way that it came out, and the positive reaction that it has received. Your design looks rather good and has got me wondering whether I can get the case and bezel of mine a black PVD coating... |
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