March 15, 2007: Wooden watch, car, gun

[Ceri]

Hate to burst your bubble but wooden gears aren't especially rare, and while they usually wear out faster than the metal gears you're more used to, some of the best time kept today is still in older wooden geared clocks, some of which are from Swiss clockmakers, others from unidentifiable sources. To be honest though this is the first fob watch I've seen made of wood, I'd love to have a good look at it first hand, the maker must have done some incredibly fine work which makes me wonder as to the woods used in the smaller gears where breakage is likely.
But all that said even as a purely ornamental piece it's beautiful.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Ceri

Hate to burst your bubble but wooden gears aren't especially rare

OMG....say it isn't so!



Welcome to the Cellar Ceri!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Ceri

Snip~ To be honest though this is the first fob watch I've seen made of wood, I'd love to have a good look at it first hand, the maker must have done some incredibly fine work which makes me wonder as to the woods used in the smaller gears where breakage is likely. ~snip

The maker of that watch, the Bronnikov Family, carved one watch per month, from 1837 to 1918. Half of them survive, today. (Watches, not Bronnikovs.) You can have one for $25,000 or so.

[Ceri]

That's kind of fast given the amount of finer work to be done. And that's an expensive piece of wood.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Some of their production was carved from bone, but I've no idea how many.