OVERTURE

Kinetic instruments for collectors of quiet precision. Wound by hand, one at a time.

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"A second is not kept.
It is played."

Act II · The Cast

Five disciplines.
One bench.

Timepieces

Balance wheels tuned by ear, in a room with stone walls.

Automatons

Figures that move once wound, and only then.

Music Boxes

Seventeen notes, pinned by hand into brass.

Orbital Instruments

Orreries and astrolabes, accurate enough to argue with.

Desk Mechanisms

Objects that earn the corner of a serious desk.

Act III · The Blue Hour Session

Nine pieces.
Wound at dusk.

The full catalogue opens at blue hour. Until then, the current cast, each one moving exactly as it does on the bench.

Blue hour · calculating

Overture No. 1

38.5 mm, brass and sapphire. The balance breathes at 28,800 beats an hour.

$4,800PIECE 01

Heron Automaton

Wound by key. Bows twice, then waits. Bronze over a steel cam stack.

$7,200PIECE 02

Astrolabe No. 4

Three nested rings, hand engraved. Reads the sky for 41.9 degrees north.

$2,950PIECE 03

Chaos Pendulum

Two arms, one bearing. In six years it has never repeated itself. Neither will this one.

$1,600PIECE 04

Orrery, Six Bodies

Brass planets on steel arms. One turn of the crank is one Earth month.

$5,400PIECE 05

Skeleton Clock

Every wheel visible. Nothing to hide behind. Ratio 3:2, cut on a 1948 lathe.

$3,800PIECE 06

Metronome No. 12

40 to 208 beats per minute, walnut case, no batteries in this century.

$940PIECE 07

Music Box, Seventeen

Plays a phrase it never finishes. Turn the sound on and it will play it for you.

$1,250PIECE 08

Piece No. ∞

Commissions. One a year. The bench decides.

InquirePIECE 09

Act IV · The Manifesto

Motion you
can wind.

Everything in this room is mechanical. If it moves, a spring moves it. If it sings, a comb of steel teeth sings it. Nothing here updates, syncs, or asks for your attention.

We build slowly because the pieces run for a long time. A watch leaves this bench expecting your grandchildren. The mechanisms on this page are not photographs of that idea. They are the idea, running.

The lineage is older than the atelier. Clock watches that read the sky, regulators that argued with observatories. We keep that argument going.

Gilt clock watch with astronomical dial and folding sundial, opened to show both faces — Clock watch with astronomical dial · c. 1605 · The Met, public domain

Act V · Backstage

The bench,
counted.

120Hours per piece

9Artisans

5Disciplines

1Room

Drawn before it is cut

Every wheel starts as a drawing at five times scale. The drawing is the argument; the lathe just agrees with it.

Tolerances, this week

wheel 3 ...... +0.00 / −0.01 PASS
pinion 7 ..... +0.01 / −0.00 PASS
cam, heron ... +0.02 / −0.00 REWORK
comb, No.17 .. +0.00 / −0.00 SINGS
barrel ....... +0.01 / −0.01 PASS

Tall astronomical regulator clock in a glazed case — Longcase astronomical regulator · c. 1768 · The Met, public domain

Editorial

What the quiet
press says.

"The rare shop where the product page is the product."
The Escapement Review

"Overture is what happens when horology stops whispering."
Kinetic Quarterly

"I came for a metronome. I left with a philosophy."
Private client, Vienna

Finale · The Club

The Overture Club

Twelve members a year. First refusal on every piece, and a standing invitation to the bench.

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Applications close at blue hour