Introducing the Ressence Type 2N Night Blue
Ressence is one of the most innovative of independent watch brands, and even though their watches are expensive by almost any measure, they are worth taking a serious look at by anyone interested in genuinely new technology in watchmaking. Their e-Crown system, which allows a watch to always be set to the correct time, and have an effectively infinite power reserve, is like nothing else on the market. And their modern dial design is one of a kind as well, placing all time telling elements in the same plane for a drastically different reading of the time. They?re a favorite brand around here not just because the watches are aesthetically compelling, but because they strive to really push the envelope in what we think a mechanical watch can be.Â
At Watches & Wonders this year, Ressence introduced the newest entry in their Type 2 collection, the Type 2N Night Blue. Ressence?s Type 2 watches utilize their proprietary e-Crown system, but before we get to that, a quick review of the Ressence dial layout is in order. Unlike a traditional watch that tells time via the use of hands mounted from a central location, Ressence watches employ a series of spinning discs representing hours, minutes and seconds, that enable an intuitive reading of the time and a dial of great visual interest that is constantly in motion. What appears to be an hours ?subdial? is actually a disc that?s set within the larger minutes disc, and both of these discs rotate around the dial pointing t...
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