Presented as a world preview during Wonder Week\/ SIHH in Geneva, Zurich watchmaker Miki Eleta presented his latest clock, the largest he has made to date, in person at the M.A.D. Gallery. HIPPOCAMPUS measures two meters eight, has an Eleta escapement whose ink is shaped like a seahorse, and a musical movement whose chimes cannot be repeated even once in a hundred years. This musical movement winds itself and at the same time controls the clock by its weight. <\/p>\n
Until 2000, Miki was an artist who made exclusively kinetic sculptures, until in 2001 a customer questioned the precision of his pieces. Miki then asked for a year to create a full-fledged clock to prove him wrong. Knowing nothing about watch design, he embarked on a completely self-taught apprenticeship in the art of watchmaking. It took him barely a year to complete his first piece. <\/p>\n
It was with this uncommon perseverance that this 63-year-old watchmaker, who has a habit of going headlong, decided almost 12 years ago to dedicate his life to the creation of two clocks a year. Since 2005, Miki has been a member of the prestigious Acad\u00e9mie Horlog\u00e8re des Cr\u00e9ateurs Ind\u00e9pendants, which subsequently enabled him to exhibit in the Academy’s section at the Basel Fair.
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