CELSIUS are launching a range of high-end micromechanical phones featuring some exceptional patented mechanical complications. The first creation, The Papillion Tourbillion, a cell phone merged with a tourbillion watch featuring a patented Remontage Papillon mechanism. CELSIUS reinvents micro-mechanical applications to humanize the future of communication: pushing the boundaries of established watchmaking, Celsius is fundamentally an innovative brand that combines mobile telephony with prestige watchmaking in creating nomadic objets d’art. A dream that embraces a concept that is still impossible today but may one day come true: an entirely mechanical cellphone. It will be unveiled next week at Baselworld 2010, starting price will approximately €200,000 ($275,000).
images via Watchismo
this makes no sense… the cellphone is an ever evolving piece of equipment, obsolete in a year or two… the clock mechanism… if in a watch can be worn and functional for as long as it functions. This quarter million dollar cell phone will be useless in two years. How many people have the same cell phone they had 5 years ago?
I still have the same cell phone I bought in 2001, and it was the cheapest and oldest model still on the market at that time, a Motorola V120. Still works great! I get a real kick when people seem shocked at how “outdated” it is – only to produce their more ‘modern’ phone, which no doubt they will get rid of before I get rid of mine:)
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Doesn’t this at all seem a bit counter intuitive? I can understand a hobbyist finding the time to make a phone like this, for the sheer enjoyment of building it only. This can never and will never be a product of mass consumption. Talk about a niche market.
Even the name of the product and description found here are complicated for the sake of complication. “Papillion Tourbillion” really??