Type 1° Round Black
Ref. T13R-BXX1-CBA
$24,800
The Ressence Type 1° Round Black is the round-cased expression of Benoît Mintiens' biaxial orbital concept. There is no crown — you wind and set the watch via a lever on the caseback. The patented ROCS 1.3 (Ressence Orbital Convex System) module is driven by the minute axle of a customised ETA 2892, with three eccentric satellite discs that tilt at 3° (hours) and 4.75° (seconds, day-of-week) across a convex 125mm-radius German silver dial. Grade 5 titanium case, 42.7 × 11 mm, double-domed sapphire with internal anti-reflective coating, ardillon buckle on 20/20mm leather. 64g all in. 36h reserve, 28,800 vph, 40 jewels, 27 gears. Splash resistant. Two-year warranty.
Specifications
Case
- Weight
- 64 g
About Ressence
Benoît Mintiens was an industrial designer who had never made a watch — which is exactly why Ressence looks like nothing else in horology. The dial is not a dial: it's a system of orbiting discs that rotate within rotating discs, so the entire face continuously reorganizes itself. In the Type 3 and Type 5, the display module is filled with oil, killing all refraction so the time appears printed on the crystal — like e-ink made of mechanics. There is no crown; you set it through the caseback.
It is the rare watch that genuinely advanced the state of the art of *reading time*, and wearing one feels like wearing a concept car.
