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Master watchmaker Martin Braun likes to name his watches after figures from Greek mythology - at least this was the case with the Eos, a wristwatch featuring the display of sunrise and sunset times that he introduced a year ago. The very fitting choice of name represents the goddess of the dawn. Boreas, as it stands in Martin Braun's catalogue, was one of Eos's sons. As the Greeks described him, he was the god of the North Wind and rather rough company. When looking at the family ties, it becomes clear that the youngest offspring inherited something from his mother. Eos set the watch world in an uproar just more than two years ago with its remarkable display of sunrise and sunset by two long, crossed hands and short arched scales. A specialty of the Eos technology is the index cams of the crossed hands visible on the bottom of the dial, which, along with the scale segments, can be replaced to fit the various geographical degrees of latitude. Boreas has in a sense inherited the Eos module including its index cams and crossed hands, but also brings an additional astronomical complication into the game: the equation of time. A slender hand sweeping from the center of the dial displays the deviation of our mean time from the reality of the time that the sun keeps in minutes on a small scale segment.
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Naturally the rest of Martin Braun's watch collection languishes in the shadow of this famous model duo with the crossed hands. But in the end, it is the neoclassics that are constructed with the care and expertise from remnants of vintage manufacture movements that form the basis for the ambitious creations including a new line of sporty models featuring a striking case and dial design.
Fundamentally it is this, old and new side by side, classic yet innovative, that makes Martin Braun's watches so attractive.
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Martin Braun USA
1717 West Sixth St., Suite 212
Austin, TX 78703
Tel: 512-499-0123
Fax: 512-499-8112
www.martinbraunusa.com
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