Does a Complication Get Any Cheekier? **Vincent…
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Does a Complication Get Any Cheekier?
**Vincent Calabrese** is a name that might be immediately familiar to some watch enthusiasts. I had the pleasure of showcasing his work not once https://provenancewatches.substack.com/i/173649784/vincent-calabrese-day-and-night, but twice https://provenancewatches.substack.com/i/169460050/its-not-japanese-but-its-very-unusuallast year. Each time, he offered us his unusual take on a jump hour watch, and the “Mona Lisa” is no different - although this might be his strangest example yet.
**On the surface, the** ***Mona Lisa*** **is a conventional watch**. It has three hands to represent the seconds, minutes and hours, and they all move round the dial as watch hands should. But when the hour hand completes a full rotation, something changes. As much as I could attempt to describe what happens next, you’re far better off watching the video above.
**Blink and you’ll miss it**. Stare at it, and you might be a pervert.
It’s silly, it’s clever. But most importantly, it’s *very* Vincent Calabrese.
**He’s pioneered multiple horological innovations**, including his current mission to reinvent the hairspring, and he founded the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI) that essentially serves as a Hall of Fame for living watchmakers.
And yet he still finds it important to remind people that watches can, and *should*, be fun.
#luxury
**Vincent Calabrese** is a name that might be immediately familiar to some watch enthusiasts. I had the pleasure of showcasing his work not once https://provenancewatches.substack.com/i/173649784/vincent-calabrese-day-and-night, but twice https://provenancewatches.substack.com/i/169460050/its-not-japanese-but-its-very-unusuallast year. Each time, he offered us his unusual take on a jump hour watch, and the “Mona Lisa” is no different - although this might be his strangest example yet.
**On the surface, the** ***Mona Lisa*** **is a conventional watch**. It has three hands to represent the seconds, minutes and hours, and they all move round the dial as watch hands should. But when the hour hand completes a full rotation, something changes. As much as I could attempt to describe what happens next, you’re far better off watching the video above.
**Blink and you’ll miss it**. Stare at it, and you might be a pervert.
It’s silly, it’s clever. But most importantly, it’s *very* Vincent Calabrese.
**He’s pioneered multiple horological innovations**, including his current mission to reinvent the hairspring, and he founded the Académie Horlogère des Créateurs Indépendants (AHCI) that essentially serves as a Hall of Fame for living watchmakers.
And yet he still finds it important to remind people that watches can, and *should*, be fun.
#luxury
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