Ressence is a unique company… Half watchmaker, half 2.0 avant-garde designer, the brand is known for its bold and innovative timepieces – think Type 2 e-Crown – that combines a sleek design with a signature display of the time. Even if “challenging the status quo of mechanical watchmaking” is the philosophy of the brand, its products retain a certain elegance and distinction. Part of the novelties presented at the Dubai Watch Week is a new sand-colored, open-worked version of the Type 1 Squared made with Seddiqi & Sons. Meet the Ressence Type 1DXB.

The main specificity of Ressence watches is their unique time display. Instead of conventional central hands, time is indicated via a display module named ROCS – Ressence Orbital Convex System. Driven by the minute axle of a specially customised 2892 calibre, the ROCS indicate time by satellites rotating on their own axis and on the central axis of the watch, in an orbital way. The watch is, somehow, a modern interpretation of the regulator with the minute hand at centre stage and sub-dials for the hours, the seconds and week-day. All of that is driven by a complex series of gears that accelerate or slow down the motion of the minute axis. Intuitive, original and quite fascinating.

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