{"id":9500,"date":"2007-03-18T21:06:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T21:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9500"},"modified":"2007-03-18T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T21:06:48","slug":"jules-verne-inspired-timepiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9500","title":{"rendered":"Jules Verne-Inspired Timepiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/verneWatch.jpg\">TokyoFlash may have the corner on the high-tech watch market, but HD3, a group of Swiss designers, are gunning for the growing retro-futures market, at least steam-powered moguls. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/hd3complication.com\/HD3.asp\" target=\"new\">Vulcania<\/a> watch was directly inspired by the fantastic machines of Jules Verne. The hours are found on a wheel displayed through a lateral porthole, while the minutes are shown on a disk, like a ship&#8217;s &#8220;Chadburn telegraph.&#8221; The power indicator is fashioned like a sextant and its winding mechanism can be seen underneath. On the back of the watch there&#8217;s even a glass map of &#8220;Vulcania Island&#8221; with it&#8217;s X and Y coordinates shown (as well as the visible watch-works beneath). <\/p>\n<p> Only Dukes, Lords, and Marquis need apply, though. The site doesn&#8217;t even mention the price and only eleven watches will be made. Check out HD3&#8217;s other chronographs, which are equally high-end and old school. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TokyoFlash may have the corner on the high-tech watch market, but HD3, a group of Swiss designers, are gunning for the growing retro-futures market, at least steam-powered moguls. Their Vulcania watch was directly inspired by the fantastic machines of Jules Verne. The hours are found on a wheel displayed through a lateral porthole, while the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jules Verne-Inspired Timepiece&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}