The Mechanical Hand

THE MECHANICAL HAND A JEANMARC LAROCHE CREATION BLADE BY ROGER BERGH A knife capable of movement and gifted with On fitting your hand into that of the knife, you already feel a strange clasping in suddenly the mechanical fingers close You can t get free With the same movement, an eye opens and stares at you intensely. It s awake Now you are under its control, and the knife is master of you who dared to take it in your It was from the cinema of fantasy films that I drew my inspiration. It took me 12 years to implement my idea, six months to carry it out and a fair number of technical difficulties had to be overcome. Yet here it is Like a cunning thing from another time, that a mad inventor out of the 19th century would have dreamed up. This biomechanical being activates its workings to move its fingers; it seizes control of the situation with its eye s intelligence. The Hand is made with Bronze covered with silver and Gold. The Blade has been made by the Swe