Daniel Oliver 
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For the thirty day period of February, Dubai will host The Stellar Odyssey, a important exhibition by Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre, which pays homage to the astronomical phenomena that lie at the origins of time measurement. The exhibition is an invitation for check out fanatics and the typical community alike to uncover how the mysteries of the cosmos are translated into micro-mechanical miracles that seize the universe in miniature, in get to inform the time.
Checking out the miracles that we can notice in our night sky, The Stellar Odyssey reveals the awe-inspiring phenomena that the watchmakers of Jaeger-LeCoultre categorical by means of their celestial difficulties, displaying mankind’s link to the cosmos immediately on the wrist in a literal, philosophical and uniquely fascinating way.
Adhering to the inauguration of The Stellar Odyssey at Watches and Miracles in 2022, Dubai has been decided on as the initially quit on a tour of main planet towns. The exhibition will be staged in a impressive pavilion ‘floating’ on the waters of the Dubai Fountain, with Burj Khalifa as its backdrop.
“It is an critical element of our mission at Jaeger-LeCoultre to share the insider secrets driving the artwork and craft of watchmaking with the wider entire world by bringing our Manufacture from the Vallée de Joux to the community close to the globe,” suggests Catherine Rénier, CEO of Jaeger-LeCoultre. “The ancient cultures of the Center East performed a seminal job in the origins of time measurement, and we are therefore delighted that Dubai is where by the earth tour of The Stellar Odyssey makes its debut. It is a particular chance to trace the unbroken line by means of a number of millennia to the exceptional legacy of innovation that has pushed our Maison for 190 several years and the function that we do now.”
Showcasing a watchful curated assortment of the Manufacture’s most impressive historic timepieces as very well as its most recent celestially-encouraged timepieces – which include the remarkable Atmos clock and the Reverso Hybris Mechanica Calibre 185 – the exhibition characteristics multi-media installations that will consider site visitors on a digital journey to the cosmos. It interprets the miracles of the celestial earth into artwork installations and multi-sensory activities, although the Atelier d’Antoine, named immediately after the Maison’s founder, Antoine LeCoultre, shares watchmaking know-how as a result of fingers-on academic workshops centered on the Stellar Odyssey theme.
Revealing the Mysteries of Astronomical Timekeeping in 8 Chapters
Within the key exhibition pavilion, The Stellar Odyssey explores the resourceful and cultural universe of astronomically-impressed watchmaking in eight chapters. People start out by finding the quite origins of time, the effects of celestial phenomena on the way we measure it, and the origins of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s experience in developing astronomical issues. Each individual of the five adhering to chapters leads guests through a distinctive cosmic phenomenon, exhibiting uncommon historic watches as well as timepieces from the most current collections to illustrate how the Manufacture has continuously reinterpreted the actions of the stars and planets in the type of intricate troubles that represent, evaluate and even predict celestial situations immediately on the wrist.
Enriching the Stellar Expertise
In the coronary heart of the main pavilion beneath a geodesic dome, an immersive electronic clearly show normally takes guests on a virtual journey by area and time, transporting them through infinite area and 13.7 billion many years of time to reveal the mysteries of the cosmos in 5 episodes – from the origins of our recognised universe to the existing day.
“Via a assortment of immersive experiences, The Stellar Odyssey provides distinctive interpretations of the cosmos and its relation to timekeeping, inviting site visitors to have an understanding of it more deeply,” states Catherine Rénier. “As very well as transmitting the savoir-faire of watchmaking by the Atelier d’Antoine workshops, these ordeals include things like two exclusive collaborations less than our Manufactured of Makers programme.”
Set up for the purpose of enriching the dialogue that has extensive existed amongst horology, artisanship and art, Created of Makers is a programme of collaborations with artists and artisans from various disciplines outside the house watchmaking. It focuses on earth-course creators who share Jaeger-LeCoultre’s values of creative imagination, abilities and precision and whose do the job explores new sorts of expression via diverse and frequently unpredicted materials and media. For The Stellar Odyssey, Jaeger-LeCoultre has commissioned initiatives by French multi-media artist Guillaume Marmin and entire world-renowned mixologist Matthias Giroud.
For his set up, Travellers: By way of Time, Guillaume Marmin employs light, seem and movement in intricate relationships that redefine classic ideas of sculpture, space and time. As people wander through the operate, infinite reflections and dizzying perspectives just take them on a stellar tour in which they are the protagonists, inviting reflection on the basic problem of what time genuinely is. For the Stellar Atelier, Matthias Giroud has established a menu of extremely authentic comfortable cocktails motivated by the cosmos, getting his inspiration from the colors, temperatures and types of the stars and planets, and blending acquainted components with intriguing scents and flavours from the Vallée de Joux.
In the Atelier d’Antoine, readers can finish their journey of astral discovery by joining a hands-on Discovery Workshop that focuses on the ponder of astronomical issues and the celestial origins of time-retaining – a unusual option to obtain deep perception and simple expertise of this magical planet.
The Stellar Odyssey will be introduced from Saturday 4th to Thursday 23rd February 2023 at the Dubai Fountain, Downtown Dubai, open up everyday from 2:00pm to 12.00 am. Tickets may well be booked online at https://on the net-reserving.jaeger-lecoultre.com/domaine/topic12
