11/13/2022 0 Comments Solari cifra 6![]() ![]() ![]() Required fields are marked Comment Name Email Website This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Is it stiIl for sale Régards Bert Reply Léave a Reply CanceI reply Your emaiI address will nót be published. Sadly, like most mechanical things that are awesome to behold, they easily fall into disrepair, and reliable, versatile, dull electronic signs are driving them to extinction.Find out moré at the éBay website Sharé This Post Tágs 60s, auction, cifra 6, clock, design, ebay, flip, gino valle, home, Italy, retro, sixties, Solari Udine, style Post navigation Previous Post Next Post You might also like eBay watch: 1950s midcentury-style cabinet eBay watch: 1970s Hornyphon radio flip clock eBay watch: 1970s Italian space age table lamp eBay watch: Midcentury floating storage system by Beaver and Tapley One thought on eBay watch: Gino Valle-designed Solari Udine Cifra 6 1960s flip clock bert says: 9th November 2010 at 12:54 pm I looked on ebay for thjis clock but cant find it. Thanks to Luke McKenzie for the info, who notes: ![]() In fact, such displays are often called “Solari boards”. Solari is still a key producer of those fantastic split-flap displays seen in railway stations and airports. It would be cheaper to use ICs and a clock chip.” ![]() No one would make a clock like this today. Here’s another beautiful example of a Bodet flip clock, this one with months in English.įinally, Adam Dorrell shot the innards of his Dator 5, noting the leap year function and blithely commenting, “This is why it’s great. There are more followers of Valle’s design in production today, including this wide range by Homeloo, but they clearly lack the spirit of the Solari Dator 5 or even the Bodet model. Witnessing all the noisy mechanics whir as it changes from one month to the next only makes my lust for this marvel grow deeper. This tasty bit of eye candy for flip clock fetishists led me to the piece that was probably its inspiration: the Dator 5 designed by Gino Valle and manufactured by Solari Udine in the mid- to late ’60s.Īnd as luck would have it, a generous Dutchman, Raymond Van Orsoy de Flines, has published video of the Dator 5 and its dateless cousin, the Cifra 5, in action. A BT637 calendar clock by Pierre Bodet, produced in the ’70s. ![]()
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