100 Years of Bauhaus: Modern Watches in the Anniversary Year
The Bauhaus is turning 100 years old and watch brands are honoring the colorful heritage of this influential art school. In this feature from our WatchTime 2020 Design Special, on sale now, we explore the major contemporary timepieces with Bauhaus inspiration.
Bauhaus. The word is easy to say and everyone seems to have a vague idea of what it implies. Something cool. White. With clean lines. But these interpretations fall short of the full picture ? something that?s being emphasized in this anniversary year ? and the newest watch to celebrate the Bauhaus anniversary captures all this in a nutshell. Junghans introduced its Form A in mid 2019 as a straightforward stainless-steel automatic watch with small, colorful squares for hour markers. Subtle tones like turquoise, pink and violet join the primary colors blue, yellow and red that are most commonly associated with the Bauhaus movement, if the subject of color even comes up. The Dessau Bauhaus Studio Building with its small balconies designed by architect and Bauhaus school founder Walter Gropius is one of the architectural icons of the Bauhaus.°
The interplay of color presented on the Form A displays one of the characteristic features that makes the Bauhaus so appealing, even today. The Bauhaus art school did not follow hard and fast design doctrines in order to develop a ?Bauhaus style,? but experimented broadly with form, color and function. Rather than the austerity that we often associate with the Bauhaus, there was a...
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