\n David A Lindon who holds the Guinness World Record for creating the smallest handmade sculpture in history, crafted the micro sculpture to commemorate the centenary of Nikon’s JOICO microscope.\n<\/p>\n
\n The JOICO, launched in 1925, was Nikon\u2019s first full-scale microscope and could magnify images up to 765 times.\n<\/p>\n
\n The sculpture measures 4.28mm x 1.2mm x 1.77mm, which is 80 times smaller than the original microscope.\n<\/p>\n
\n Gold-leaf micro artwork marks 100 years since JOICO\u2019s 1925 debut(Image: David Lindon)\n<\/p>\n
\n It is covered in gold leaf and set onto the head of a solid gold pin.\n<\/p>\n
\n The micro sculpture is displayed inside a protective glass dome with a built-in magnifier and powerful illumination.\n<\/p>\n
\n It slowly rotates with a hidden mechanism in the base of the display.\n<\/p>\n
\n The artwork was hand-delivered to Amsterdam by David, where it will be displayed at Nikon’s European headquarters and travel to exhibitions to celebrate the JOICO\u2019s anniversary.\n<\/p>\n
\n David is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible, having created the world\u2019s first wearable art gallery inside a watch along with the world\u2019s first microscopic triptych painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David A Lindon who holds the Guinness World Record for creating the smallest handmade sculpture in history, crafted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-22966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}