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Rainer Nienaber at BaselWorld 2010

Mar 25, 2010,13:06 PM
 

AHCI member Rainer Nienaber has made many watches using retrograde displays over the years.
His newest model is now, just to mix us up a little, anterograde.
The hand doesn't spring backward, but springs forward.

If it didn't have the second hand this would be a one hand watch, it has no minutes hand.  When the hand gets to 9:00 it jumps forward over the seconds hand and continues on its way.
One of the neatest watches of the show IMHO





Retro 2




Trio Retrograd 3





Tri-Retrograde





Retro 2 bicolor





Trio Retrograde 2





Trio Retrograd 1





Regulator version 2





Regulator version 2 bicolor





Regulator, note that most "regulator" wristwatches have the seconds at the bottom as on most small second watches.  For this watch Rainer has recreated a real pendulum face where the seconds hand is at the top. 





For those of you who need to be challenged to be happy.  A decimal watch, 1 day is 20 hours (2x 10 hours) and each hour has 100 minutes.  Figure it out !





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Thanks don

 
 By: aldossari_faisal : March 25th, 2010-13:54
i love his newest watch, and the one at the bottom is what i would call SMART watch. Faisal

The decimal watch sounds like a great idea.

 
 By: tony p : March 31st, 2010-01:47
If I buy this watch, I will need one hour's less sleep each night! Jokes aside, there are some beautiful Art Deco inspired designs here. Cheers Tony P