Let's talk about weird. There is a good weird, and there is certainly bad weird. Which category any particular "weird" falls into it highly subjective. On most accords this watch is weird. I mean look at it? It is unlike almost everything else out there. A one of a kind creation by Yvan Arpa's Artya brand, this watch belongs to the "Coup de foudre" collection which is an ongoing series of watches that have "lightning struck" cases - hence the "Tesla" part of the name. Basically, Yvan's shop employs the use of a large Tesla coil array. Electricity (which is basically lightning) travels between the two coils and the watch case is stuck in the middle. These pieces undergo wild transformative effects aided by artists who help engrave and colorize the metal. A lot of the cases that undergo this treatment are unusable, but the ones that survive are pretty interesting. Again, "interesting" if you can follow suit with that type of thing.
Artya employs two teams of people in their workshop. One team are artists and the other team are watch makers. The two work together to create "watch art." A sort of game that is played with mechanical movements and dials. The Tesla collection plays with the idea of electronic componentry and mixes it with the design. Expressionist art at its finest, you have a purely mechanical watch with inert electronic parts as decorative elements. Note the uses of copper wire coils, and various capacitors. Please not that I used the image of the back of the watch as a reference. This is not the rear of this specific timepiece, but a sister watch in the collection. I use it to show the "Quadri Rotor" part of the design.
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