Raketa Copernic Owner Review : Minimalist, energized and poetic

The soundtrack to listen to is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_UCS4yc_k8 This watch inevitably brings to mind the Elysium song "The Far Side of the Moon," with its childlike simplicity, the energy it exudes, this thirst for freedom, curiosity about the unknown, and dreams of a better world. The DIY telescope allows us to observe the universe, and it allows us to ask more questions than it answers: but what's happening on the far side of the moon? That, the hidden side, we can't observe, and it stimulates our imagination. The Copernicus watch also evokes the image of the telescope with its organic glass similar to an eyepiece, its dial white like the paper and cardboard used in homemade telescopes. The Raketa Copernicus is an iconic watch from the late 1980s that found a second life in the late 2010s with a fusion of the 1960s reference 651022, which had an off-centered circle on the dial, but which, in essence, has nothing to do with the Copernicus. Originally, the idea was perhaps to represent the moon and the sun and a solar eclipse. The first models, not yet commercialized and present in Alexandre Brodnikovsky's collection, indeed depicted an eclipse, then the sun and the moon. But later, another explanation for this intriguing model emerged, and the references to the moon and the sun were abandoned. The Copernicus, which featured two circular hands, represented Jupiter and Earth, one Jupiterian year being equal to twelve Earth years, and one revolution of the dial of the small hand being equal to twelve revolutions of the large hand. The Copernican system was not self-evident. Indeed, there were certain political issues at the time that caused some trouble for Copernicus, but especially for his successors like Kepler and Galileo, in getting their system publicly accepted by all. In the 1980s, a wind of free speech arrived in a totalitarian world of extremely standardized discourse called transparency, or Glasnost. The winds of change brought by Glasnost allowed people to speak out loud, and not just in their kitchens without a spy. When the watch was reissued in the late 2010s and then in 2020, the situation was obviously different. This is why the reissue cleverly combines the 1980s Copernicus with the 1960s reference 651022. The dial circle was then added to the two hands of the Copernican system. A fixed and off-center space that represents what is immutable in our universe and over which laws, including Newton's, have no hold. It is the symbol of the era. In short, I discovered the Copernicus in the 1980s, at a time when I was learning about the solar system, at a time when I was building eyeglasses with paper towel tubes and telescopes with barrels of laundry detergent, sundials with sheets of white paper, knitting needles, a level, and a compass. Reference 4171730 is the simplest of the Copernicus models: a white dial, a black railway, as if someone had built a solar system with a sheet of white paper, a black marker, and two circular needles. Adjectives: minimalist, conceptual, spatial, cosmic, curious, ingenious, poetic, timeless, energetic