Reply With QuoteAs a bit of an Astronomy geek that is rather cool - the dial is a little busy for me but I still like it. Thanks for posting, I hadn't heard of them before!
Since today is the spring Equinox I am wearing my titanium Astrodea - the photo of my watch is here but below you can see some info on those!
As a bit of an Astronomy geek that is rather cool - the dial is a little busy for me but I still like it. Thanks for posting, I hadn't heard of them before!
The dial (at least in my watch) is not that 'striking' as it looks in the pictures - my photo for instance was 'flash-pushed' (and I tried at quite a few angles) as to show max detail from dial, but in real life the hands stand-out pretty clear (and you need to use the provided magnifier in order to see the astronomical details). The sidereal time is usable without magnifier (but with decent light) with a precision around 10 minutes.Originally Posted by IANAN
Never heard of these before, what are they like in terms of quality and price?
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The quality is good for the price :lol: (but the prices are getting crazy in the last years). It is also my only watch that does not have a brand-name on the face/dial 8)
I would say (just) a little below the corresponding Campanola models, but those are more expensive and (surprisingly since those are bigger) do not have an equally-big star map (since there are also other "dial 3D intricacies" present).
The watches have always been made in limited editions of around 1000 'distributed' among the submodels (N and S hemisphere, some models were for latitudes other than JP) - the 2006 model was titanium but there have been other models. The latest models have an extra indicator in the center for the age of the moon.
The site is http://www.astrodea.jp/ - you can try the pages with a lot of text (like those with the history of the company) through http://translate.google.com/ but that will not be very effective on the more flash-based pages.
Of course there is nothing like a Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon 5002 and not even Patek Philippe Celestial 5102G but I can live with that (and I believe the initial Cosmo models might have come first - around 1986).
Thanks.
Both for sharing this mind bogling quality dial and reminding us of the equinox.
Here is the ancestor:
Very interesting - the best info that I could find for non-German speakers is so far:
http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... in_neu.htm
Thanks for reming me of the spring equinox, totally forgot about it. Oh and very specialist watches.
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