Type 1 Squared Black
Ref. Type 1²B
$24,800
The provided documentation does not contain the introduction year, specific caliber names, or historical details regarding the Ressence Type 1 Squared Black. The available facts only identify Ressence as a unique watch brand with a distinct design language.
Specifications
Case
- Case size
- 41.5 mm
- Case material
- Grade 5 Titanium
- Crystal
- sapphire
Dial
- Dial
- silver
- Lume
- Super-LumiNova
Movement
- Movement
- automatic
- Jewels
- 40
Strap
- Strap/bracelet
- strap
- Strap material
- leather
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.
