But with this model, (almost) the entire movement is seemingly not connected to the surrounding watch and instead floats delicately in the transparent dial opening. The Astromystérieux is, as the name might suggest, a mysterious watch, meaning that the hands are seemingly not connected to tanything. One brand that has been consistent in recent years with making me feel that is Cartier.Ĭartier Rotonde de Cartier AstromystérieuxĪt SIHH 2016, Cartier unveiled the Rotonde de Cartier Astromystérieux, and it more than piqued my interest. So it follows that when, even in my general understanding of how things work, a new watch comes along that makes me sit down and think that I am completely in love. It makes me feel like a kid again, wide-eyed with wonder and belief in the impossible. Yet I still find great joy in seeing something performed flawlessly so that even in my understanding I am fooled. I love knowing how things work and so have read in great depth how the feats of illusion are executed. During the next centuries, incredible feats of magic were invented used to stun audiences around the world, culminating with twentieth- and twenty-first-century performers sawing people into little pieces, flying above the Las Vegas skyline, and making entire buildings disappear.īut unless you took it upon yourself to learn the secrets of magic and illusion, it still remains a valuable and incredible skill to be able to fool a person’s senses. This book was the beginning of the end for believing magic and illusion was the work of the devil.Īs inventions and mechanical devices were used more and more, magic became a performance art. The first book exposing magic’s secrets, called The Discoverie of Witchcraft, was published by Reginald Scott in 1584. Though still regarded widely as witchcraft, the world slowly became more educated and scientifically minded, and soon magic and illusion became less shrouded in the mysteries of the universe and more widely understood as a skill of deception, sleight of hand, and misdirection.
Later, the Middle Ages saw magic and sleight of hand become a useful tool for street performers as a means of entertainment, and also theft in growing urban areas. As the centuries went by, magic and illusion became more associated with the occult and during the Dark Ages was often punishable by death. Magic has been used for religious coercion and social control all the way back to ancient Greece and ancient Egypt. Ever since man discovered the propensity of people to believe what they see, there have been those who seek to fool and fluster with acts of illusion or prestidigitation.
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