Movement

Ever since 1657, when the first watch was created, we have used the oscillatory movements of a mechanical system to acuratlly tell us the time. In Movement, we can observe these systems complex and rare mechanisms–physically mechanical rather than electronic—we can see into a world of traditional knowledge controlled by master watchmakers. To remove the back from one of their tiny creations is to plunge into an unknown world: these images of the tiny springs, levers, screws and gears that drive the hands of time forward, etched with the slightest texture possible and engraved in the smallest type possible, present an abiding mystery of the everyday, representative of all of the technologies we have come to take for granted. HC DJ