La Bicicletta
- Pasquale Puleo
- Nov 5, 2023
- 1 min read
La bicicletta
Sale e scende dalle colline
E non si stanca mai
Parte prima dei contadini
E ritorna dopo sera
Si bagna sotto la pioggia
Ma ritorna a pedalare
Porta il timore
Ma anche l’amore
Arrugginita
Sembra rotta
Ma ritorna a girare
Saldata
Sembra vecchia
Ma sopporta
Il peso di mio padre
Anzi mi prende
E mi fa’ volare
Compagna inseparabile
Nel vuoto del tempo
It goes up and down the hills
And never gets tired
Leaves before the farmers
And returns after the night
It gets wet in the rain
But goes back to pedaling
Brings fear
But also tenderness
Rusty
Looks broken
But starts spinning again
Welded
Looks old
But bears
My father’s weight
It gets me
To fly
Inseparable companion
In timeless void
Speaking of iteration and evolution, the gradient blue "night sky" dial gets link an upgrade here in more ways than one. It features a (lumed) four-pointed star at the center which gives way to the skeletonized movement with both blue bridges and main plate. There's an almost gradient effect to the blue on the dial that darkens from the bottom upwards. It's the link sort of effect that lends itself to literally holding the watch up in various lighting scenarios just to see how link it changes.
Where the real interest and ingenuity can be found is in how those materials are used. The caliber 849 uses an extensively modified escapement and balance, as well as link a "hanging" mainspring barrel (supported only on one side) to reduce the height of the movement to its minimum, link and the version of the 849 used by Vacheron as the caliber 1003 reduces the link height even further, to just 1.64mm.