During each day, a separate time for yourself
Imagine a window of time, arranged each day at a different time, a sort of time-out that you can reserve just for you, an exclusive time. Only you would know how to employ this time that is reserved for yourself.
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The SEPTAGRAPH™, a new watchmaking complication
The SEPTAGRAPH™ (from the Latin ‘septua’ meaning ‘seven’ and the ancient Greek ‘graphein’ for ‘to write’) is a new, totally original, and patented watch complication. Over a weekly cycle, where each day has a different reserved time, the SEPTAGRAPH™ activates a countdown mechanism that runs for 90 minutes.
The time of the specific time period—of this Strategic Period as BorgeauD calls it—varies from day to day, and is indicated in a counter placed between 6 o’clock and 9 o’clock. At midnight, the jumping hand of the counter automatically moves to the day that has just started. Every day, at the appointed time for the activation of the Strategic Period, a large arrow positioned between 3 o’clock and 5 o’clock instantaneously fills with colour, thus signalling the beginning of the period and its countdown.
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Watchmaking and astronomy, as we know, have been related since the dawn of time.
Throughout the ages, all civilizations on Earth, one after the other, have tried to understand and take advantage of the natural rhythms that govern our existence. By carefully observing the astronomical movements of the sun, moon and planets, the human spirit succeeded, very early on, in understanding the laws of the ‘great cosmic clock’. Continue reading →