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Panerai 2013 Novelties in Tokyo + Tribute to Galileo: Jupiterium
Perhaps this is an old news - Jupiterium was
announced at SIHH 2010, but it finally came to Tokyo (June 7 -
12). Here is the report for those who missed it when it came
near you and those who are in the area + some 2013
Novelties were also
presented.
The venue - In Roppongi Hills,
where I live relatively close but not familiar with inside, thus
naturally I got lost for 15 minutes. Normally this is a
cafe.
Up
there is the office tower of Roppongi Hills.
First, speech by Mr. Daniele
Bosio, Ministry Counselor of Italian Embassy in
Tokyo.
Next,
Panerai Japan Brand CEO, Mr. Toru Ichiji
Finally, Panerai (Swiss), R&D
Director, Mr. Frank Stalder
With Mr. Hirota (watch
journalist)
Mr.
Ichiji and one of the guests.
I
visited again the following day to take more photos with less
people. The floor has been designed like the dial of a
Panerai.
For
watchmaker workbench exhibition.
Center stage with video
showing
There
are eight panels to tell the story of Paneral and related watches
exhibited.
First panel.
Not
great photo of the pocket watch....
I wish
I could take more close-up and better photos, but sorry! I
will try to take, someday.
The
2nd panel.
The
3rd.
The
4th.
The
5th.
The
6th.
The
7th.
The
8th and the last.
Now the time to "tape-cut" for the
Jupiterium room - by Mr. Bosio and Mr. Ichiji.
How it
works:
"Panerai Jupiterium" is the astronomical
clock equipped with a perpetual calendar function. This device, in
addition to the positions of the sun,
the moon, Jupiter,
as seen from the Earth,
shows the positions of the Stars of the Medici family, i.e. the biggest
satellites of Jupiter - Io Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, observed by
the very first telescope made by Galileo in
1610.
"Panerai Jupiterium" centers the Earth and
around which other celestial bodies revolve inside the blue
sphere. The mechanism is contained in the box of glass on the
wooden base - 86cm height 75cm in width, and the base
part contains the complex gear trains which drives the perpetual
calendar clock and the planetarium
above it.
Transparent sphere that is placed
in a glass box represents the sky. The two hemispheres respectively
represent the northern hemispheres and the southern one. The
narrow band that joins the two represents the equator, on which 12
constellations are engraved. Other constellations spread on
both hemispheres are coated with
the Super
Lumi Nova ® and they glow at night. The sky faithfully
reproduces the movement of the stars seen from the Earth, and it rotates
in 23 hours and 56 minutes, i.e. one sidereal day.
All
the celestial bodies except for the sphere itself moves in the blue
sphere on each trajectory on the REAL TIME basis, driven by a single
movement which is controlled by the watch movement, i.e. the moon in
27.32 days, the sun in 356.26 days, revolve around the Earth.
Jupiter revolves around the sun in 11.87 years, and Jupiter's satellites
Io in 1.8 days, Europa in 3.6 days, Callisto in 7.2 days, and Ganymede
in 16.7 days revolve around Jupiter on its respective
trajectory.
There is a round
part on the bottom of the clock under the complex structure as described
above, which has four small windows. This is the perpetual
calendar which displays day, date, month, and year. No need to
adjust until the year 2100. The year 2100 is theoretically a
leap year, but due to minor error of the Gregorian Calendar accumulated,
it will NOT be a leap year (good information for those who will be
still alive!).
The
base mahogany wood also has the clock dial. Dial color is
black-base and has big arabic numerals at 12h and 6h, and bar indexes at
other hour markers - which is very Paneral. Hour index and
the hands are coated with the lumi. Dial shows hour, minute,
and the second, as well as am/pm and the power reserve. The
movement is hand winding and the power reserve is 40 days - how tough it
will be, I don't know....
The 1,532 parts that make up this Panerai Jupiterium are
almost all made from titanium, while it still weighs as much as 110
kg.
There are only THREE of this watch/clock in the
world.
Here is the
video of this Jupiterium:
Thank you,
Panerai Japan, AND Chronos Japan, as always.
Hope you
refresh your memory and
enjoy.
Ken
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To leave comments, please go to Ken's original report in Panerai forum, panerai.watchprosite.com
