Dix Noonan Webb appoint Joanne Lewis as Watch Specialist
Joanne has over 20 years experience working for the leading London auction houses, latterly working for Sothebys in New Bond Street.
LONDON
.- Mayfair auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists, announced the appointment of Joanne Lewis, who joins the company as a Watch specialist. Currently, DNW hold four specialist Jewellery and Watches auctions a year, which include antiquarian, antique and modern diamond, pearl and gem set jewellery, wristwatches, pocket watches and associated objects of vertu.
Joanne has over 20 years experience working for the leading London auction houses, latterly working for Sothebys in New Bond Street. She joined Sothebys in 2004 as a watch cataloguer, and by 2010 was Deputy Director and Head of the Watch Department.
Fragments of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, are seen at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Inset image shows a screen capture rendering by the UCL team of what the device may have looked like. Photo: Thanassis Stavrakis/AAP
15 March 2021 5:48pm
The riddle wrapped in a puzzle as to how the world’s first analogue computer worked may have been unravelled by a University College of London (UCL) Research Team that includes to scholars of Greek descent.
The inter-disciplinary research team led by Dr Adam Wojcik, includes Archaeometallurgist Myrto Geogakopoulou and physicist Aris Dacanalis. The team’s work is funded by AG Leventis Foundation, Charles Frodsham & Co and the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to predict astronomical events.
12 March 2021 Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to predict astronomical events.
Known to many as the world’s first analogue computer, the Antikythera Mechanism is the most complex piece of engineering to have survived from the ancient world. The 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of the Sun, Moon and the planets as well as lunar and solar eclipses.
Published in
Scientific Reports, the paper from the multidisciplinary UCL Antikythera Research Team reveals a new display of the ancient Greek order of the Universe (Cosmos), within a complex gearing system at the front of the Mechanism.
George III s £2.5m watch blocked from leaving the country amid Bridgerton hype
The UK government prevents a historically important pocket watch leaving the country in the hopes a new British buyer can be found
2 February 2021 • 7:00am
Golda Rosheuvel s portrayal of Queen Charlotte in Netflix series Bridgerton, has helped to bring the court of George III to prominence
Credit: Alamy
In the world of Netflix,
Bridgerton’s men may be outshone in the jewellery stakes by the women, as were their historical predecessors, but they would certainly have carried watches and other accessories of eye-watering value along the lines of the Breguet watch made for George III and sold by Sotheby’s last year for £1.6m.