And when emotions make change the expression of our face, do we concentrate on it or do we think about the muscles shaping the eyes, the forehead, the mouth? Similarly, when we look at the changing dial of TYPE 1, we are enraptured by the dance of the counters and not by the mechanism that moves them. In Mintiens’ vision, rigorous but poetic, the face of the TYPE 1 is constantly changing, just as a human face changes with each passing emotion. This effect was achieved by machining them from the same Grade 5 titanium block as the case, rather screwing or soldering them to the case.Īt the center of the nature inspiring Benoît Mintiens and his watches stands the man, with his abilities, his intuitions, his feelings which are mainly expressed by his face.
Soft are the lines of the lugs, which appear to have grown out of the caseband like branches from a tree, rather than have been simply added on as is usual. The dial itself is also curved, as are the indication discs within, requiring inclined axels for each disc. Soft is the design of the case and of the organically curved sapphire crystal flowing right down to the case rather than sitting on top of a bezel. But also no straight lines, only soft and sinuous, “organic” shapes, as Mintiens imagines when he is inspired by nature to create his own timepiece shapes that, unlike the cut and clean lines, can be found in nature. Impossible not to love, because it is pure Ressence philosophy: no hands protruding from the dial, no winding crown, the best readability as the only goal. Beautiful, modern, brazenly cool, impossible not to love. Up to, in 2014, the watch that in our opinion embodies the true essence of Ressence: the TYPE 1.
From then on, Mintiens developed and improved the technical solutions inspiring his watchmaking vision, presenting new collections and collecting numerous awards, one for all the first place in the Horological Revelation category at the 2013 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève for the TYPE 3 watch.
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