Meet the Ochs und Junior Two Time Zones + Date
If you think you know what a complication looks like, think again. Ochs und Junior do things a little differently.
by James Buttery
The man behind Ochs und Junior describes his work as the opposite of haute horlogerie which, if all you had to go on were these images, might be a fair assumption.
In reality, Dr Ludwig Oechslin is known for condensing the complex, taking the technical and making it seem intuitive. In essence, at Ochs und Junior, he does the number crunching calculations so you don?t have to and presents his creations in a stripped-back, industrial style free of the usual horological trappings.
His latest watch, Two Time Zones + Date (the naming conventions are equally as matter-of-fact), displays the time, running seconds, date, second time zone and a power reserve in a manner that is so covert that you would be able to ignore the majority of the information altogether were you not looking for it in the first place. It?s a very clever design trick. Hours and minutes are displayed by means of two central hands with indices at the 2/4/6/8/10/12: so far so logical, but the hour hand is shaped like the speed control of a steam ship (or chadburn) with a window that frames any one of 12 numerals printed on an adjustable disc beneath. This gives you the second time zone.
Above and below the disc are two far smaller discs, a simple power reserve at the 12 o?clock and a running seconds at the six.
The date is displayed by means of 31 holes punched in the surface of...
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