I want this car
Me too.
When I first started working on this piece I wanted something that had Steampunk elements without being over the top. It still maintains looking like a delicate necklace but also has the functionality of having a real working watch on it. Yes the watch on this piece has a battery in it and does work. It is currently set for the Eastern Time Zone.
This is a 2 chain necklace that features a working watch, gears, and antique keys. The chain is an antiqued brass coating steel the top chain is 20 inches and the bottom chain is 23 inches. The watch has a fancy filigree that has antiqued cooper finish with an ivory face. There are 3 keys that are an antique brass and there are 3 gears, 2 copper and 1 brass. The Jumprings that connect everything are a Bronze Anodized Aluminum and the Toggle Clasp Closure is also an Antique Copper that matches the watch.
Constance Chesterton and the Cogs of Karma by *synthezoide
Here’s my entry for this month challenge at Outland Collective. The topic this time was Steampunk.
Sculptures by Prize winning French artist Pierre Matter.
Steampunk is a genre which came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction. It involves a setting where steam power is widely used—whether in an alternate history such as Victorian era Britain or “Wild West”-era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time —that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.
Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical Engine.
Steampunk also refers to art, fashion, and design that are informed by the aesthetics of Steampunk literature.Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.
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