Mike Eleta created the first kinetic wristwatch, the Timeburner, which strongly resembles an internal combustion engine or its mechanism, and it does not lack the noise that the engine once made. Instead of clock hands, we have an aluminum cylinder, and it is driven by a mechanical movement that the user initiates when winding the spark plug.
Watchmaker and fine mechanic artist Miki Eleta has produced an exotic watch with a dial that strongly resembles a motorcycle engine. More precisely, it is a part internal combustion engine, and Eleta drew inspiration from his youth and BMW-'s motorcycle, year 1950.
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Unitas mechanism in the Timeburner watch with 18 thousand revolutions per hour and has energy reserves for 46 hours. They will make three different models (ME1, ME2, ME3) in three color shades, but each in only 99 copies. The price? 12,673 Swiss francs (a little over 12 thousand euros). The number is not random, because it hides the date when Miki Eleta arrived to Switzerland (6 December 1973). Shame it didn't come in January, wouldn't it, it would have been a lot cheaper.
Timeburner - a clock with the smell of octane.
Miki Eleta and his BMW engine from which he drew inspiration for the Timeburner watch.
Timeburner - a clock with the smell of octane.
Timeburner - a clock with the smell of octane.
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