EXAPLE: Macro Photos of Watches

In my fever of procrastination stemming from my inability and simultaneous lack of desire to concentrate on college apps, I've been researching/reading about everything from cars to watches. One thing I've recently discovered in the field of horology (the production of watches) is how ridiculous all of it is. You can regularly find watches that cost upwards of 5 or 6 digits.

Anyway, one of the things that makes some luxury watches so expensive is how many tiny little contraptions (called "complications," for good reason, in horology) are crammed into them. Chronometers, date displays, and the grand-daddy of expensive complications- the tourbillon.

They're more or less little spinning doohickeys, and they are awesome.

Flickr user "martin t w" has a lot of watch photography on his photostream that displays closeup shots of various parts of luxury watches, and they embody nearly everything I love about closeup and macro photography. The minute details and the very abstractness that come from getting up so close to something are simply amazing.

Examples:
The crown of a Panerai 316. http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinwilmsen/3826742492

Another Panerai, with this shot focused on the inner workings. You can see the tourbillon in the center of the photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinwilmsen/4688510362/

The tourbillon of another Panerai, from the back of the watch. Mmmm, gears.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinwilmsen/3825942705/