Skull Watch, Memento Mori, Mechanical, STUNNING 💀💀

Description: Luxurious Memento Mori, Skull watch. Mechanical hand winding. Hand carved silver dial with gold hands. Brown leather strap with skull buckle. R.M Watch Co, designers and manufactures of hand made watches with vintage style workings and hand carved dials. A real stand out, luxurious watch. One of a kind. Keeps great time and has a lovely tick that pleases the ear. Comes in black shockproof case as shown in picture. Info: Brushed stainless Steel case with polished bezel. Case diameter 47mm Case thickness 15mm See through exhibition back case. Special scratch proof mineral glass. 17 jewel hand winding mechanical movement. Made to the Originally style used in pocket watches, lovely big movements. 21600 beats per hour. Hour hand, minute hand, second hand at 9 position. Great movement for reliability and durability. Long service life. Due to being a mechanical wind up movement the time may be slightly fast or slow over 24 hours, we are talking seconds. Operation: With crown pushed in turn to wind up movement until you feel a little resistance. I do about 50 half turns, then stop winding, just repeat when needed. Pull crown out to set time then push in again. No batteries, no hassle. Postage will be recorded and tracked with insurance. Memento Mori info:💀💀💀 Latin: remember you will die)–is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” In his Meditations—essentially his own private journal—Marcus Aurelius wrote that “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” That was a personal reminder to continue living a life of virtue NOW, and not wait. The French painter Philippe de Champaigne expressed a similar sentiment in his painting Still Life with a Skull, which showed the three essentials of existence — the tulip (life), the skull (death), and the hourglass (time). The original painting is part of a genre referred to as Vanitas, a form of 17th century artwork featuring symbols of mortality which encourage reflection on the meaning and fleetingness of life. Meditating on your mortality is only depressing if you miss the point. It is in fact a tool to create priority and meaning. It’s a tool that generations have used to create real perspective and urgency. To treat our time as a gift and not waste it on the trivial and vain. Death doesn’t make life pointless but rather purposeful. And fortunately, we don’t have to nearly die to tap into this. A simple reminder can bring us closer to living the life we want. It doesn’t matter who you are or how many things you have left to be done, a car can hit you in an intersection and drive your teeth back into your skull. That’s it. It could all be over. Today, tomorrow, someday soon. The Stoic finds this thought invigorating and humbling. It is not surprising that one of Seneca’s biographies is titled Dying Every Day. After all, it is Seneca who urged us to tell ourselves “You may not wake up tomorrow,” when going to bed and “You may not sleep again,” when waking up as reminders of our mortality. Or as another Stoic, Epictetus, urged his students: “Keep death and exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems terrible— by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will you have excessive desire.” Use those reminders and meditate on them daily—let them be the building blocks of living your life to the fullest and not wasting a second.

Price: 299 GBP

Location: ABINGDON

End Time: 2024-11-15T22:08:14.000Z

Shipping Cost: 36.69 GBP