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He got the job.Pulsar watches create a striking, revolutionary balance between the two worlds of technology and taste, with some stunning features that are set to reinvigorate the watch market for years to come. Grima, who had never made a watch before, insisted on being given completely free rein in terms of overall theme, individual designs, component materials, and cost per piece вЂ“ the only thing he conceded was that each watch would have an Omega movement. Overall, it is in very good, well taken care of.In 1969, over dinner in Philadelphia, Robert Forster, OmegaвЂ™s Director of Production, outlined a brief to British designer Andrew Grima for a collection of watches that would recreate the same sense of fantasy and flamboyance that had characterized the elaborately crafted decorative timepieces so coveted by the aristocracy during the 17th century and again at the turn of the 19th century. A hard to find part of timepiece history. Rare Vintage 1970s Pulsar Y739-5019 070713 Digital, LCD Calculator Alarm Two Tone Gold and Silver Watch. Vintage PULSAR 5408 14K GF LED.

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The initial reaction was muted:вЂњThe first time I went to Switzerland with the first experimental wooden models, I was greeted with silence and then a series of polite questions. 27 (3.27/Count)Having sketched his initial ideas in just a few weeks, Grima presented the first prototype designs to Omega in Switzerland. вЂў1 Count (Pack of 1) 4.7 out of 5 stars 4,665. Duracell - 370/371 Silver Oxide Button Battery - Long Lasting Battery - 1 Count.

When the watch cases were completed, a few goldsmiths would travel from London to the Omega headquarters and fit the movements with the aid of the Swiss watchmakers. This avoided the problem of it getting clogged with dirt and gold filings. As she was the first woman to see them вЂ“ and she sees quite a few watches вЂ“ they realized that women might actually like exotic watches.вЂќThe watches were handmade in the Grima workshop using a brass block to represent the Omega movement. Then when they saw the first jeweled pieces they were delighted, and the wife of the managing director actually ordered one. They instantly started banging the models against the table to check practicality.

The three-day public showing, attended by Princess Anne, was followed by a fortnight in the Round Room basement of Andrew GrimaвЂ™s gallery in Jermyn Street. The stonecutters had no clue as to the end purpose of these strange commissions that ostensibly decimated the value of the materials being used and, to be fair, they did not ask:вЂњBecause the project was a secret we didnвЂ™t want the cutters to know that the stones were for watches, so when we told them that it was imperative to see through them and that the stones had to be a certain thickness they just thought that we were rich English eccentrics because we kept insisting on these impossible specifications.вЂќThe collection вЂ“ launched at GoldsmithsвЂ™ Hall in London on вЂ“ caused a sensation. These were supplied by Gustav Caesar of Idar-Oberstein, who brought in special cutters to create the unusual and innovative shapes and sizes. We had to comb Europe for the right people because we couldnвЂ™t find enough craftsmen in England to cope with a million-pound commission of this magnitude.вЂќPrecious and semi-precious stones were used to make the watch glasses, including rock crystal, moonstone, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, aquamarine, citrine, peridot, and green and pink tourmaline. I mean itвЂ™s vanished already in America and even in Britain, we could not have produced such a collection without calling in craftsmen from all over Europe, from Austria, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland. As Andrew Grima explained to the press, only the best would do:вЂњThese watches might be some of the last examples of this type of craftsmanship.

And these models have been exhibited with immense success in the capital cities of the world. Otherwise, as each piece was sold, it was replaced by a new design, thus preserving the uniqueness of the collection.Omega viewed the collaboration with Grima as transformational to the development of its watch ranges, as this excerpt from their 1972 sales guide demonstrates:вЂњHe added new dimensions to jewelry watches. A handful of the pieces were replicated, but even these were limited to one per continent. Over the next four years, About Time was exhibited in every major city in the world. The collection was then presented to the trade at the ChГўteau de Chillon on Lake Geneva, where Ursula Andress was presented with a ring watch specially commissioned for her by Omega. Prices ranged between ВЈ660 and ВЈ7,500 which was a great deal of money at the time (ВЈ7,000 would have bought you a small Ferrari!), but over half the pieces sold during the first London showing, mainly to overseas customers.Shortly after the London launch, Omega decided to take the About Time exhibition to the Swiss Pavilion at Expo вЂ™70 in Osaka.

It is this revolutionary idea of seeing time through stones that not only forms the unifying theme of the About Time collection but also ensures Andrew Grima his place in the history of the watch.вЂќ PulsarAndrew Grima designed a second watch collection in the mid-1970s for Hamilton Watch CompanyвЂ™s Pulsar brand which pioneered the digital electronic watch. In turning the watch into a jewel, Grima hit on a simple yet brilliant idea, the substitution of a precious or semi-precious stone for each watch glass. But the significance of the Grima collection goes even further. A collection above the tides of fashion, a collection that would be a work of art in its own right. As journalist Anna Motson wrote at the time:вЂњIt wasвЂ¦. The resulting About Time collection was the ultimate expression of his genius, eclipsing anything he achieved before or since.

The Grima Pulsar collection was launched at GoldsmithsвЂ™ Hall in 1976 as an attempt to underpin the brandвЂ™s premium positioning at a time when competitors such as Texas Instruments and Casio were churning out digital watches for $20вЂ“30 apiece.Pulsar would stop manufacturing watches by 1977, but the Grima versions were, nevertheless, a wonderful swansong. P1s are extremely rare today, as only 400 were made and many are presumed to have perished during the gold-melting frenzy of 1979 to 1980 when the price of bullion surged past $800 per ounce. HamiltonвЂ™s Pulsar division had developed the first digital electronic watch in 1972 after John Bergey, the head of Pulsar, took inspiration from the digital clock Hamilton had made for the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.The prototype was developed in 1970, but the first commercial Pulsar digital watch was the P1 вЂ“ a limited edition cased in 18k gold, which retailed for $2,100 when it came onto the market in 1972.

In stark contrast to the Omega collection, the style was predominantly clean and symmetrical вЂ” a very un-Grima-like trait but appropriate given the space-age technology involved.Priced at $85 USD, Andrew Grima: The Father of Modern Jewellery, by William Grant, is available to pre-order on Amazon here.