The lab / studio studies
Three objects. Built to come apart.
A watch, a ring and a rani haar, modelled part by part in code: studio studies in construction, movement and light. They are ours, not client commissions, and all three run live on this page.
Studio study 01 / APEX A-01 — seventeen assemblies
Follow the movement.
Isolate an assembly, open the construction or run the mechanism. Seventeen assemblies, every one modelled in code; the movement keeps running while you look.
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A movement you can read.
The barrel stores power, the train divides it, the escapement releases it one beat at a time and the balance keeps the beat even. Choose a part to see where it sits in that chain.
Study 01, filmed / APEX A-01
Hold the light still.
Light makes the dial legible, catches the bezel and reveals the moon-phase aperture. Hold a frame to see how it changes the surface; play the loop to see the light travel.
Drag to hold a frame. Arrow keys move through the light.
Pick a moment, or drag to hold any frame.
- Source
- Rendered from the watch code above
- Duration
- 14-second loop
- Frame
- 1920 × 1080
Studio study 02 / APEX Facet 02 — a ring in eight parts
Inspect the setting.
Separate the stone, claws and band, then turn them in the light. Choose the metal and the stone; every facet is cut in code.
Machining parts…
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Every stone is cut, every claw is placed.
The centre stone is a full round brilliant — table, star, bezel, girdle and pavilion facets — and the same cut repeats in every pavé and halo stone around it.
Study 02, filmed / APEX Facet 02
A ring is a small building.
Eight parts and 67 stones, rendered from the code above and lit as a six-second loop.
Explore the ring in 3D spaceStudio study 03 / APEX Riviere 03 — a necklace built link by link
Follow the light down the line.
Hundreds of chain links, a graduated line of stones, lace-like filigree, drops that swing and a haloed centre stone. Open it, lift out any part, change the metal and the stones.
Machining parts…
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Nothing here is a texture.
Every link, collet, claw and facet is geometry cut in code, and every stone uses the same faceted light as the ring.