John Pickard wrote:
> Hello Tony,
>
> You can't be serious that the dial in your image cost 3 M Euros.
> Surely not. While it looks like a rather attractive design, there
> doesn't seem to be anything remarkable about it. I could understand
> maybe ten or twenty thousand Euros (nice work if you can get it!), but
> not 3 M.
>
> Is it platinum, or perhaps the new unnamed element number 112?
>
Hi John et al,
I was only repeating what our guide told us, to an
almost audible gasp of amazed disbelief by many witnesses from the BSS
Safari group. In explanation we were told that it had been designed by
a very famous architect.
As an ex sundial maker myself it is tempting to speculate on the likely
time and cost of making a duplicate by waterjet cutting and slot
assembly but it would be discourteous to do so. One novel feature was
the daylight saving adjustment with a slide of summertime numerals
behind the little holes.
Tony M.
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