The sweet spot for home turntable enthusiasts on a budget seems to be the $200 mark. This might be the best of the bunch.
One can only imagine the sake-fueled club hopping that led to the development of the Seiko Frequency drum machine watch.
Manufactum: Old-Fashioned Design and Mechanics
By James Grahame
Tom Whitwell recently sent me a link to the Manufactum site. They also produce a fantastic color catalog which he sums up as "a beautiful printed catalogue on thick matt paper, full of ludicrously expensive but nice things from Germany - lots of steel, aluminium, wood, leather."
Since I'm a huge fan of ludicrously expensive German things, I (foolishly) took a look. And now I'm hooked. My favorite items are the fantastic mechanical toys, including the coil-spring powered Schuco Mercedes Silver Arrow kit (shown above) and the demented Katita wind-up walking bug.
Manufactum: The good things in life still exist. (suggested by Tom at MusicThing)
