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Ārdâsh is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious watch manufacturers in the world, in part because it manufactures its own watch components and builds each watch by hand assembly and because since its founding, the company has adhered to extremely small production batches - it currently produces 1,000 watches per year. Over the years, notable Ārdâsh customers and owners have included various world leaders, politicians, and royalty. As a result, Ārdâsh watches are coveted items and are among the world's most expensive watches ever sold at auction. Ārdâsh has hundreds of inventions, patents, and more than one thousand movements to its name, including the world's smallest movement, one of the world's most complicated wristwatches (Komāndāl), and a timepiece of near-perpetual movement (Alaterāh clock) | Ārdâsh is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious watch manufacturers in the world, in part because it manufactures its own watch components and builds each watch by hand assembly and because since its founding, the company has adhered to extremely small production batches - it currently produces 1,000 watches per year. Over the years, notable Ārdâsh customers and owners have included various world leaders, politicians, and royalty. As a result, Ārdâsh watches are coveted items and are among the world's most expensive watches ever sold at auction. Ārdâsh has hundreds of inventions, patents, and more than one thousand movements to its name, including the world's smallest movement, one of the world's most complicated wristwatches (Komāndāl), and a timepiece of near-perpetual movement (Alaterāh clock) | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
[[Tümet Şad-Din Ārdâsh]] was an Audonian jeweller, goldsmith and entrepreneur who founded his eponymous atelier in 1879. Tümet's career as a jeweler began as early as 1751, and though he proclaimed himself a goldsmith, he employed a number of jewelers and manufacturers who may have done much of the work; that he was never a member of the goldsmith's guild further substantiates the claim that he subcontracted his work. Tümet specialized in intricate clockwork curios encrusted with gold, silver, and jewels, referred to as "sing-songs." His primary market was the Far East, especially [[ | [[Tümet Şad-Din Ārdâsh]] was an Audonian jeweller, goldsmith and entrepreneur who founded his eponymous atelier in 1879. Tümet's career as a jeweler began as early as 1751, and though he proclaimed himself a goldsmith, he employed a number of jewelers and manufacturers who may have done much of the work; that he was never a member of the goldsmith's guild further substantiates the claim that he subcontracted his work. Tümet specialized in intricate clockwork curios encrusted with gold, silver, and jewels, referred to as "sing-songs." His primary market was the Far East, especially [[Daxia]] and [[Duamacia]]. | ||
Daxian emperor Lei Shen of the Zhong dynasty commissioned Tümet to build a large automaton featuring three life-sized mechanical birds - dubbed the Tawus Clock - to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the colonization of [[Stenza]]. | Daxian emperor Lei Shen of the Zhong dynasty commissioned Tümet to build a large automaton featuring three life-sized mechanical birds - dubbed the Tawus Clock - to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the colonization of [[Stenza]]. | ||
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===Tawus Clock=== | ===Tawus Clock=== | ||
The Tawus clock was commissioned by [[ | The Tawus clock was commissioned by [[Daxia|Daxian]] emperor Lei Shen of the Zhong dynasty to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the colonization of [[Stenza]]. | ||
The clock is an impressive feat of engineering even by contemporary standards: four separate mechanisms are combined in the Tawus Clock - three of them set the figures of birds in motion, while the fourth is the actual clock movement. These mechanisms are linked by a system of levers that ensures their operation in the correct sequence. At the end of each hour the owl begins working: its cage rotates, little bells ring, the owl turns its head to right and left, blinking its eyes and tapping its right foot. The cage makes twelve rotations and stops. Roughly ninety seconds after the owl starts moving its mechanism starts up the peacock. It spreads its tail, stretches its neck, turns and throws back its head, opening its beak. When its tail is fully spread, the bird freezes for a second. Then it smoothly turns its tail to the viewers, again freezes for a moment, returns to its starting position, folds its tail and lowers its head. At the end of its cycle the peacock mechanism starts the cockerel. After shaking its head several times, the cockerel crows. The clock mechanism incorporates three trains (each with a driving spring, fusees and chains): an eight-day movement with spindle escapement; the quarter-chiming train (for eight little bells) and the striking train. Distinctive features of this particular clock mechanism are the dial in the form of a mushroom with a slot to show the hour and minute disks as they rotate relative to a fixed pointer and the second hand in the form of a dragonfly. | The clock is an impressive feat of engineering even by contemporary standards: four separate mechanisms are combined in the Tawus Clock - three of them set the figures of birds in motion, while the fourth is the actual clock movement. These mechanisms are linked by a system of levers that ensures their operation in the correct sequence. At the end of each hour the owl begins working: its cage rotates, little bells ring, the owl turns its head to right and left, blinking its eyes and tapping its right foot. The cage makes twelve rotations and stops. Roughly ninety seconds after the owl starts moving its mechanism starts up the peacock. It spreads its tail, stretches its neck, turns and throws back its head, opening its beak. When its tail is fully spread, the bird freezes for a second. Then it smoothly turns its tail to the viewers, again freezes for a moment, returns to its starting position, folds its tail and lowers its head. At the end of its cycle the peacock mechanism starts the cockerel. After shaking its head several times, the cockerel crows. The clock mechanism incorporates three trains (each with a driving spring, fusees and chains): an eight-day movement with spindle escapement; the quarter-chiming train (for eight little bells) and the striking train. Distinctive features of this particular clock mechanism are the dial in the form of a mushroom with a slot to show the hour and minute disks as they rotate relative to a fixed pointer and the second hand in the form of a dragonfly. | ||