Monday 31 March 2014

Christophe Claret plucks petals to reveal true love with the Margot watch



“He loves me… He loves me not,” or the Daisy Oracle is a game of pulling petals off a flower, usually a daisy, while intoning the formula that dates back to at least the 15th century as a way of finding out if someone’s love is true. In a fusing of the 21st and the 18th centuries, Christophe Claret takes a page out of the golden age of automata and turns the game into a miniature automaton version that fits into a lady’s wristwatch. Called the Margot, we had a look at it at Baselworld 2014 and its mechanism that “predicts” true love based on the old game of plucking daisies. .. Continue Reading Christophe Claret plucks petals to reveal true love with the Margot watch

Section: Wearable Electronics

Tags: Baselworld, Baselworld 2014, Watches

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