Jules Verne Nautilus GX
A piece built around Jules Verne's novel, with a case that turns.
- Level
- Premium
- Diameter
- 42 mm
- Calibre
- ETA 2824-2Swiss automatic calibre
- Dial
- Dial worked by hand
- Case
- Stainless steel, with a rotating mechanism, sapphire crystal, water-resistant to 10 atm
- Strap
- Duck leather, handmade by Vasile Uglai
- Price
- Set individually, in direct conversation with the watch designer.
The workshop takes on a small number of commissions each year.
The story on the dial
The novel appeared in serial form, between 1869 and 1870. Verne's Nautilus was not a machine that defied the sea, but one that lived off it: Nemo says he extracts sodium from sea water for the electric cells that move his vessel. The energy comes from the place it passes through.
On every object on board, down to the cutlery, a letter N is engraved inside Nemo's motto: Mobilis in Mobili. Moving within the moving element.
That motto describes a mechanical watch fairly exactly. An automatic calibre winds from the motion of the wrist that carries it: it has no battery, it has its host.
The case of the piece rotates on its axis. The rotation was designed for this dial and was not used again on another. The submarine asked for depth, not surface, and depth comes in layers that read one at a time, as the light moves.
Sources for this text: Project Gutenberg, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
