Bell & Ross BR01 Cyber Skull extends the watchmaking into the World of Art
Avant-garde and sculpted, the Bell & Ross BR 01 Cyber Skull reinvents the popular skull watch it pioneered.
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Human civilisation has a mixed relationship with the visual motif that is the skull. While the most common symbolic use of the skull is as a representation of death, mortality and the unachievable nature of immortality, Vikings of the first millennium to the paratroopers of the Second World War, including the pirates of the 17th and 18th centuries have used representations of the skull as a prominent warlike symbol.
Suffice it to say, Death’s heads are found throughout art history as well.To those without finely tuned aesthetic judgment, Stephen Gregory’s jewel-decorated human skulls look like they’ve inspired Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull For the Love of God, but Gregory tells Guardian UK, “My skulls and his are very different objects.” What Damien has done to skulls, casting it in platinum and encrusting it with diamonds, Bell & Ross has done to watchmaking with the potency of humanity’s most recognisable emblem.
When Art and Watchmaking Combine, What results is the New Bell & Ross BR 01 Cyber Skull
Skull imagery is popular across many cultures. Lucas Van Leyden?s St Jerome muses over a skull in his study in 1521, referencing Albrecht Durer?s St Jerome of 1514. Even before Hirst, ...
The post Bell & Ross BR01 Cyber Skull extends the watchmaking into the World of Art appeared first on LUXUO.
Human civilisation has a mixed relationship with the visual motif that is the skull. While the most common symbolic use of the skull is as a representation of death, mortality and the unachievable nature of immortality, Vikings of the first millennium to the paratroopers of the Second World War, including the pirates of the 17th and 18th centuries have used representations of the skull as a prominent warlike symbol.
Suffice it to say, Death’s heads are found throughout art history as well.To those without finely tuned aesthetic judgment, Stephen Gregory’s jewel-decorated human skulls look like they’ve inspired Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull For the Love of God, but Gregory tells Guardian UK, “My skulls and his are very different objects.” What Damien has done to skulls, casting it in platinum and encrusting it with diamonds, Bell & Ross has done to watchmaking with the potency of humanity’s most recognisable emblem.
When Art and Watchmaking Combine, What results is the New Bell & Ross BR 01 Cyber Skull
Skull imagery is popular across many cultures. Lucas Van Leyden?s St Jerome muses over a skull in his study in 1521, referencing Albrecht Durer?s St Jerome of 1514. Even before Hirst, ...
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