Introducing the Itay Noy Full Month Collection
If, like me, you get worked up about date apertures, then you?re sure to have a strong reaction to the 40-millimeter Full Month from Itay Noy. My reaction is entirely positive. Few things bother me more than a date complication that fails to be thoughtfully integrated into the dial, and in the case of the Full Month the date aperture isn?t just integrated; it?s practically the whole story.
This independent brand out of Isreal has perforated the dial with the days of the month. Beneath the dial, the date disc rotates like most mechanical date complication?s do, but here the only printing is a small dot of color that appears through one of the perforated numerals at a time, thus indicating the date. This arrangement is a complete reversal of the standard date aperture: instead of a fixed window with numerals appearing beneath, the numerals are themselves the fixed aperture.
On another nearly identical model called The Full Month Moon, Itay Noy has simply replaced the numeral perforations with 31 phases of the moon. This is an equally unconventional approach, and quite an elegant bit of technology in that an entirely different complication is rendered so simply.
This perforated method of indication isn?t entirely new, as more than a few watches have featured multiple apertures through which a color appears in order to generate the needed info. Some of Omega?s regatta and apnea timers from the Seamaster lineup do this, for example, and Ochs und Junior?s watch, called T...
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