Automatic bi-directional winding system with 18k red gold oscillating weight 3 day power reserve. Movement, HMC 804 self-winding manufacture caliber, 32.0mm x 5.5mm, one minute flying tourbillon with skeletonized bridges in black PVD cage, cage wheel, balance bridge and escapement bridge made from aluminum frequency, 21,600 vph. Dial, Vantablack with black leaf-shaped hour and minute hands. The Moser Endeavour Tourbillon Vantablack Black Hands: case, black DLC-finished steel, 42mm x 11.6mm, sapphire crystals front and back. Strap, black alligator with steel pin buckle. Movement, hand-wound HMC 327 manufacture caliber. Vantablack dial with blackened leaf hands. Neha Singh, Sardar Patel Subharti Institute of Law INTRODUCTION In 2014, the Anglo-Indian British artist Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to use Vantablack, a newly developed material that is the blackest substance known to man. The Moser Venturer Vantablack Black Hands XL: case, steel, 43.0mm x 11.9mm, sapphire front and back. Strap, black alligator with 18k gold pin buckle. Movement, hand-wound HMC 327 manufacture caliber, 32.0mm x 4.5mm running at 18,000 vph in 29 jewels 3 day power reserve Moser balance with Straumann hairspring. Vantablack dial with blackened leaf hands. It’s not clear whether this was done out of pure jest or artistic arrogance, but the artistic community probably isn’t going to take it kindly.The Moser Venturer Vantablack Black Hands: case, 18k white gold, 39.0mm x 11.0mm with sapphire crystals front and back. He posted a black photo on Instagram with the remark “Kapoor Black”. Kapoor, in the meantime, seems to be enjoying his acquisition. “This debate is for the artistic community, we don’t want to get involved. Surrey Nanosystems choice to license the substance only to Kapoor’s studio may be logistical, trusting the substance to the artist that may have the resources and ambition to use it properly but the company doesn’t want to comment on the debate being stirred in the art world. In an advertising campaign, Lynx coated one of their cans with Vantablack, but it took 400 hours to produce. The substance is easily damaged by any direct impact or abrasion and requires a specialist’s application. It has to be grown in a specially designed Chemical Vapour Deposition chamber under an array of powerful lamps that raise the surface temperature to 430 Celsius or higher. On the other hand, Vantablack seems like a particularly hard substance to make use of. Portraitists like Christian Furr have voiced their anger that they can’t use the material now. Other artists, who originally planned to use the substance for their own works, are taking umbrage at Kapoor’s ‘monopoly’. Two years ago, the avant-garde watch brand MCT invited Kapoor to collaborate on the S110 Evo Vantablack, the first watch to feature a Vantablack dial and, we have to. Originally used for military and aeronautical purposes, Vantablack absorbs 99.96% of light, and is made of a ‘forest’ of millions and millions incredibly small carbon nano tubes (A surface area of 1 square cm contains around 1,000 million nano tubes). Although other artists have protested against this artistic monopoly (described in this fun article on Wired), Kapoor is the only artist to date allowed to use Vantablack. Without Vantablack, the Musou Black becomes arguably the darkest paint ever, as it has a light absorption rate of 99.4 percent (Vantablack’s absorption rate is 99.965 percent). Vantablack, the substance that is said to ‘look like staring into a black hole’, has had its exclusive rights bought by the sculptor Anish Kapoor.
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