A Craft of Future Past: Mastering Antiquarian Horology
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2017
- Brittany Nicole Cox is one of the only antiquarian horologists in the world. She's basically a mechanic-a mechanic from the 17th century. Cox fixes old machines with watch or clock mechanisms inside them for a living. Often, these machines are missing parts that frequently no longer exist, so Cox fashions them herself. To visit her workshop is to see what the future looked like centuries ago, and while Cox's trade is laborious, time-consuming and incredibly intricate, she is preserving a magical part of humanity's past.
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Very impressive and fascinating job. She seems like a person that I could listen to for hours.
I could not stop saying "wow" out loud multiple times while watching this particular video. WOW!
Robotics from the 1700 century. Im kind of interest lol. Peaked my mind
Yonatan Makara Lots of steampunk 😂
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*18th century/1700s
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Extremely inspiring! You can tell how much she loves her craft.
wow that room has alot of personality
2:10 looks like straight out of movie, this is an awesome video and shows the beauty of Antiquarian Horology not seen anymore.
My dad doesn’t have a degree but he’s been rebuilding antique player pianos and music boxes for over 40 years. He’s 82. He’s currently fixing an antique bird cage that has 3 singing birds. And he also just makes missing parts himself. We just never knew there was an official title.
Wonderful, I have to look at this repeatedly to take in what Brittany says without being distracted by the workshop that surrounds her. The mellow, aged machine tools and special items are utterly fascinating. Here in the UK I have a Myford and tools from a gentleman that had a WW1 RFC history. I feel privileged to use his items every day in my workshop. Brittany's workshop has that over and over.
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You're amazing, I love to see people who love their work. Bravo
This channel is amazing, I always learn something new with these videos and feel inspired to follow my heart no matter how weird or different my passion is :)
I love her. I've always had an obsession for mechanical clocks, musical boxes, and automatons. People just thought I was weird, they don't see how fascinating it is.
It's annoying how expensive these devices are when they do show up for auction.
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I NEED more of this person! What an interesting job.
Brittany simply amazing!!!! i have a great love for Horology, i studied in my high school three years. its a small world and its only getting smaller for those of us that have the true love for Horology. well done:)
thank you
Chad
Great video - it's inspiring for me to learn about her passion. Glad to know there are people still studying this older technology, (especially if one of my pieces ever need repair).
Congrats Brittany Nicole!
Brittney is an amazing person and I got to communicate with her through Instagram. Not only is she incredibly smart and beautiful, she is so kind. I have an innocent old man crush on her and she is always so nice to respond or just add a little smile. Her kindness really shines through. She is also in several documentaries. She chose the road less traveled and followed her passion, we are all the beneficiaries of watching her do what she does. It really is magic. I like to think of her as the Goddess of Horology
This is so neat! I'm glad that there are specialized people like this who are preserving these mechanisms if the past. I really like antiques and such, so it makes me happy that someone finds joy in preserving such relics for future generations. 💜
Precious. Thank you for this discovery and share.
Regards from Portugal.
This is the amazing stuff I find while digging through random thoughts and interests that pass me by.
I am glad to see you doing this, I am an old clock and watch man and enjoy fixing complicated watches and etc. in Arkansas not many of us left. Mike Wisdom
Women are so incredible. This is so inspiring to me!! I want my daughter to grow up watching videos like this one.
I would love see more of all the kinds of clocks and mechanisms. I am amazed. Sincerely.
Brittany is so cool! I wish there was a series about her!
Wonderful and magic job, Mrs.Nicole Cox!
Beautiful work!
amazing work
Excellent video. Wonderful skills. I see you studied at West Dean. I used to go there for the AHS meetings every month. A wonderful location and place to study.
Absolutely fascinating.
This is just amazing!
Brilliant person an antiquated horor oligist, great video keep up the good work.
Wow! She's so cool! Thanks for sharing!
This is Fascinating!
Again this channel reminds me of both the amount of skill those who came before us had and that much of that skill has been lost to time
WOW ... Great video... great human.
बहुत ही सुंदर , It's Amazing . 😊😊😊👍
Speechless! Marvelous!
Fascinating!
amazing
most amazing job so close to ur heart
So I read about you in the Feb. 2021 issue of NatGeo. Find this, and stunned. I went to electronics school as a kid to work on small ot tiny things and still love to do it today. I would pay to hang out in that shop!
Greatest gig EVER!
Great video
sooo cool!!
One of the best ones
i love your job :) I wish you good luck
You are super cool... I fix watches/bench jeweler, I love it!!!
This is incredibly cool.
That is so amazing. 🙂
So incredible.
this could be a wes anderson's movie
We look at the future for amazing technologies, I think we need to look back more, this is mindblowing
Beautifull. Maravilhoso. From Brasil
what an exciting work greetings from México city☺👌👌
Brittany, you are amazing!!!
Intriguing!
Very cool...
That's amazing. Man that is cool
Love it
I want do this now!!
Another unique story dug up by the Great Big team. How do you keep doing it!? Nice job!
She is so fascinating.
A fascinating person and a noble career. Kudos and salutations to her!!
Brian Garrow it's quite sad, most of her stuff comes from 1700s- 1850s horology itself is a dying art. It's amazing how I have some pocket watches during the early 1900s still works. They were made with pure metal brass, gold, and even breguet hairbspring. I love horology it's a history of almost 600 years essentially those watches helped sailors navigate the sea. And explode of exploration.
Totally amazing. Wish I could fix the music box in my childhood teddy bear. Played, who's afraid of the big bad wolf. One of my kids turned it too tight & now it's stuck.
I want that job. Been fixing stuff like that for fun since I was little
Gibran You just happened to have 17th century automata lying around your house as a child?
emptyname12345 no, it was probably clocks or music boxes
I want this job too!, always been obsessed with the mechanisms in music boxes
Man I wish she would do a shop tour, would love to see her tools of trade.
I like it.nice job career. that's awesome
fantastic , you have got my dreamjob☺ I love clock mechanisms. I wish you would be in Brisbane, Australia. I would book every lecture.
And she lives in Seattle! So Cool!
Very very interesting
Outstanding….
uwaaa.. awesomeness...
I love GBS!
its beautiful
Really nice
I have such a sensitive little brAin
And while I do enjoy the movie Chicken Run where the chickens escape the concentration camp-esque farm.....
It is always nice to come across videos like this when most of the world sounds are too harsh on my brain.
I'm sure I'll come back to watch this again just as I go to visit Avner the clown in similar moments
What an inspiring woman ^^
Ever since I was young I've always looked for a mechanical career similar to hers but I could't find one and I guess it's so damn rare that there's no point in needing a career like that.
I'm a tool Maker and wow that's crazy...that lathe it's nuts
Hats off Madam
0:20 THATS THE CAFE FROM IZOMBIE LOL WHEN THE VERY HAPPY LADY CAFE OWNER WORKED
I'm a watchmaker, and i think i love her.
Greetings from fellow clockmaker R.J.Renaud in Canada
Must be a hugely satisfying job.
Steampunk era is easily one of the most underrated genre in video-game and movie industry. It's getting really tiring how entertainment industry is now over-saturated by futuristic sci-fi technology.
The problem with Steampunk is that it's kind of hard to do. It's easier to speculate about the tech we don't have than it is to adapt existing technology in a way that makes sense.
Arthur Dent the anime Steamboy did a pretty good job but I agree with what you said!
@@kvlt-punk thanks for the recommendation m8
This reminds me of a book that was around rebuilding a horological goose. Does anyone remember or know what that book was called?
This is way cool.
How can you find a school that offers this as a major? Every year of so I hear of another watch school closing.
david
You could get a certification in watchmaking and then get further education in machining for the practical side. Lots of watchmakers are self-taught or apprenticed with someone.
Super rad
Wow I would love to meek this lady, I love antique things.
This is an art.
Master Kagrenac would be proud of her!!!!
Well I didn't know there was a name for this. I enjoyed helping my grandmother fix her old mantle clock, using a piece of sheet brass to make a broken arm. Maybe this is what I need to do in life. Maybe 3D scan the objects for later reproduction.
The music at the start is Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2.
Can you fix my old alarm clock that made during French revolution that has small hand that advance every 5 minutes but no longer work? The movement is still working. It is 7 days alarm clock.
So she's like a 17th century steampunk sorceress? Wicked.