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Show HN: Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash

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brightbeige · 1791121219 · focus · HN ↗
For those who like long form journalism and want to know more about watch collecting and Glasshütte: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of-a-watch-geek" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of...
1. seemaze · 1791127754 · focus · HN ↗
  Nomos is far and away my favorite marque.
  As an aside, there is a fascinating lineage betewen mining silver and the birth of the Dollar in this region[0], to the establishment of precision horology[1], and thus luxury timepieces.
  [0]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_Mountains" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore_Mountains
  [1]<a href="https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/watchmaking/watchmaking-tradition" rel="nofollow">https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/watchmaking/watchmaking-trad...
  1. flohofwoe · 1791136513 · focus · HN ↗
    It's also the region where the Russians mined the first Uranium for their a-bombs [0], and where curiously a small triangle of land was neither occupied by the Russians nor the Yanks after WW2 [1].
    [0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(company)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(company)
    [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic_of_Schwarzenberg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic_of_Schwarzenberg

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