The Batman Collector Set is Kross Studio’s fourth collaboration with Warner Bros. “But to create something accurate we needed to have much more details, so we had the chance to work together with Warner Bros. “We had access to some pictures of the set because the Bat Signal is completely new,” Tedeschi continues. “It’s a light, so you can use it to light up a room, and it’s also a watch box, so on the bottom there is a compartment to hide and store a watch.” “We converted the Bat Signal into a functional piece of art,” Tedeschi explains. The companion art piece, meanwhile, clocks in at nearly 13 inches tall. That was the starting point of the inspiration in our design,” Tedeschi says. We thought it would be really fun if the Bat Signal was there, that you could call the Batman if needed. “We wanted to create a link between the wearer of the watch and the Batman himself. To set the time, the wearer presses a button that reads (quite straightforwardly) “Time Set” on the edge of the case while turning a D-Ring on the case back in either direction. The watch comes with a set of one-click, interchangeable straps, one in black leather that’s embossed with the pattern of the DC superhero’s chest armor, one in black rubber with black stitching and one in red rubber with red stitching.īlack indices tell the hour, while minutes, shown in red, are displayed on a rotating central disk. In all, there are 283 parts in the watch, each handmade and assembled in Switzerland. (A tourbillon is a rotating, caged mechanism engineered to combat the effects of gravity on a watch’s accuracy.) Powering the watch is Kross Studio’s in-house developed and produced caliber KS 7’000. It’s made of grade 5 titanium with black DLC coating and features a one-revolution-per-minute tourbillon in the center - “which is not something very common in tourbillon watches,” says Tedeschi - with a bat emblem on the louvered tourbillon cage. Marco Tedeschi, founder and creative director of Kross Studio, tells The Hollywood Reporter that two out of 10 of the collector’s sets have already been presold.Īs for the watch’s specs, it’s a 45mm hand-wound timepiece with a five-day power reserve and is water resistant to 30 meters. Together, the two pieces make up the limited-edition Batman Collector Set, of which only 10 are being produced and which will arrive in a specially made wooden box. 1986 34:409–414.Oscar Winner Andy Nelson on Working With Baz Luhrmann, Matt Reeves and Steven SpielbergĪnd the purchaser gets not just the black-and-red timepiece, but also a functional, light-up aluminum sculpture of the Bat Signal. Visual acuity, sensitivity and binocularity in a gleaning insectivorous bat, Macrotus californicus (Chiroptera: phyllostomidae) Anim. Queen ants make distinctive sounds that are mimicked by a butterfly social parasite. terminalis (Olivier) (Coleoptera: lampyridae: Luciolinae. Studies on South-east Asian fireflies: Abscondita, a new genus with details of life history, flashing patterns and behaviour of Abs. The ability of the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea to distinguish sounds in the vertical plane. The evolutionary differentiation of stridulatory signals in beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) Anim. We hypothesize that ultrasonic clicks can serve as part of a multimodal aposematic display.īiological sciences ecology environmental science ethology zoology.Īlexander R.D., Moore T.E., Woodruff R.E. Clicks were synchronized with the wingbeat and are probably produced by the wings. We recorded four species from different genera of fireflies in Vietnam and Israel and found that all of them generated ultrasonic clicks centered around bats' hearing range. We thus aimed to examine whether fireflies use additional measures of warning, specifically focusing on sound signals. Using their echolocation, bats might detect a firefly from a short distance and attack it in between two flashes. Bats are among the most substantial potential firefly predators. Fireflies are occasionally attacked by predators despite their warning flashes. Therefore, many fireflies evolved unpalatable compounds and probably use their light signals as anti-predator aposematic signals. However, in doing so, they reveal themselves to many potential nocturnal predators from a large distance. Fireflies are known for emitting light signals for intraspecific communication.
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