{"id":323,"date":"2011-06-08T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T08:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.gmtmag.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2012-11-26T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:16:35","slug":"artya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/focus-2\/artya-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Artya : Devastatingly unique creations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Snowflake Diamonds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Movement:<\/strong> mechanical hand-wound, 42h power reserve <strong>Case:<\/strong> engraved, mutilated, tortured and \u201cCoup de Foudre\u201d lightning-struck steel\u00a0<strong>Diameter:<\/strong> 47mm <strong>Functions:<\/strong> hours, minutes <strong>Caseback:<\/strong> sapphire crystal Strap: tanned \u201ccrazy frog\u201d cane toad skin <strong>Water resistance:<\/strong> 50m <strong>Limited edition:<\/strong> one-of-a-kind<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesla Skeleton Tourbillon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Movement:<\/strong> mechanical hand-wound, 72h power reserve <strong>Case:<\/strong> engraved, mutilated, tortured and \u201cCoup de Foudre\u201d lightning-struck steel sculpted with an electric charge of 1,000,000 volts <strong>Diameter:<\/strong> 47mm <strong>Functions:<\/strong> hours, minutes, tourbillon Caseback: sapphire crystal <strong>Strap:<\/strong> tanned \u201ccrazy frog\u201d cane toad skin <strong>Water resistance:<\/strong> 50m<strong> Limited edition:<\/strong> one-of-a-kind<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contenu_article\">The crazy Artya saga continues with timepieces that are as wild as ever and bear the hallmark of Yvan Arpa\u2019s hair-raising creativity. One of the brand\u2019s iconic models, the Tesla Skeleton Tourbillon, is a concentrated blend of fine mechanical watchmaking and comtemporary design featuring a ribbed skeletonised baseplate, sandblasted and bevelled bridges, rhodiumed gear wheels\u2026 These perfectly finished parts are intermingled with blue, green and red electric cables, Tesla coil, copper wires and electric resistors. The movement arrangement is clearly inspired by the work of Tinguely and his talent for mixing and layering materials. Complete with Artya\u2019s signature famous lightning-struck case and the strap made of matt black cane toad skin, this tourbillon certainly shakes up traditional fine watchmaking traditions. The equally unconventional Snowflake Diamonds clearly stems from a similarly exuberant imaginative vein. Its 47 mm steel case adorned with a total of 450 diamonds features an amazing gem-set motif composed of white diamonds evoking gently falling snowflakes simply held in place by wires.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy Artya saga continues with timepieces that are as wild as ever and bear the hallmark of Yvan Arpa\u2019s hair-raising creativity. One of the brand\u2019s iconic models, the Tesla Skeleton Tourbillon, is a concentrated blend of fine mechanical watchmaking and comtemporary design featuring a ribbed skeletonised baseplate, sandblasted and bevelled bridges, rhodiumed gear wheels\u2026 These perfectly finished parts are intermingled with blue, green and red electric cables, Tesla coil, copper wires and electric resistors. The movement arrangement is clearly inspired by the work of Tinguely and his talent for mixing and layering materials. Complete with Artya\u2019s signature famous lightning-struck case and the strap made of matt black cane toad skin, this tourbillon certainly shakes up traditional fine watchmaking traditions. The equally unconventional Snowflake Diamonds clearly stems from a similarly exuberant imaginative vein. Its 47 mm steel case adorned with a total of 450 diamonds features an amazing gem-set motif composed of white diamonds evoking gently falling snowflakes simply held in place by wires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}