Louis Moinet traveled in time to determine the 8 most impressive masterpieces of humanity survived to today with a watch by looking past from today. The Blue Mosque is also one of the magnificent monuments that reinterpreted by Swiss watchmaking.
Based on the idea that put forward by Herodotus, known as the father of history, Antipatros of Sidon described the first seven wonders of the ancient ages in the 2nd century BC in his book On the Seven Wonders of the World. As is known, these are Great Pyramid of Giza and the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Iraq, the Statue of Zeus in Greece, the Colossus of Rhodes in Rhodes, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Bodrum and Izmir in Selçuk Being the Temple of Artemis in Turkey is seven masterpieces of architecture, art, and engineering, but some of them has disappeared.
Louis Moinet watch specialists always inspired by a story and reconstruct watches as a symbolic artifact in line with this story. For once, instead of an abstract idea, they inspired by the stories of real architectural world. The case, dial, and parts of movement also form the mortar of a miniature structure on this.
These eight masterpieces were determined by the travels of Jean-Marie Schaller, owner of Louis Moinet. The five watch are in 47 mm and three are 45.4 mm in diameter. Seven of watches are in pink, the other one is in white gold. All watches have the hand-wound Caliber LM35 tourbillon movement with a 72-hour power reserve, which won the gold medal in Louis Moinet’s International Chronometry Competition.
[1] Blue Mosque (İstanbul, Turkey), 47 mm
reinterprets each of the 8 most beautiful art and engineering masterpieces of humanity survived to today as a mechanical watch. One of these watches are interests us more than others because it is inspired by .
