You are looking at a combination camera and multi-tools called “Le Coultre Compass” invented in 1936 by Noel Pemberton Billing (1881-1948), an English aviator, inventor and British Lord.
The phantom camera was used by spies and although I am not one I dream of owning such an art piece. But its rarity made a buyer pay 120,000 British pounds in 2001 just for the pleasure to look at it and play with its complex Swiss army style multi-knives system.
Art at its best will always find a place in my Blog.
Very steampunk. Keep the art comin’ Cyril.
cool, i love gadgets just as much as art – unusual when they get rolled up into one thing