Category: RESSENCE

September 4 2024

Ressence Presents The Type 3 BB2

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The Ressence Type 3 BB2 is a strikingly sophisticated timepiece, combining cutting-edge design with advanced horological craftsmanship. Encased in a 44mm by 15mm Grade 5 titanium case, the watch exudes a stealthy elegance, enhanced by its black DLC coating. The case design is sleek and modern, with a hidden crown located on the case back, contributing to its streamlined profile. The watch also offers 100 meters of water resistance, making it suitable for various activities.

The true innovation of the Type 3 BB2 lies in its dial. The black dial is oil-filled, a unique feature that creates an illusion of the elements floating seamlessly on the surface, with no discernible gap between the dial and the sapphire crystal. This effect, combined with the rotating components of the dial, gives the watch a dynamic and almost hypnotic visual appeal.

The dial is highly functional as well, with a large hand for minutes and a larger sub-dial dedicated to hours. Two symmetric sub-dials add further complexity: one outlined in green displays the days of the week, while the other, outlined in red and blue, shows the oil temperature, a nod to the watch’s unique internal engineering. The date is indicated by 31 Arabic numerals around the edge of the dial, with the current date displayed at the 6 o’clock position.

Powering this innovative display is the ETA 2824/2 automatic movement, operating 28,800 Vph and providing a power reserve of up to 36 hours.

Completing the package, the Type 3 BB2 is fitted with a textured black textile strap, paired with a DLC-coated titanium buckle and is priced at CHF 38,200.

Read more here.

General Specifications:

Brand: Ressence

Model: Type 3 BB2

Dial: Black

Case Material: Grade 5 titanium

Case Dimensions: 44 mm Diameter, 15 Thickness

Crystal: Sapphire glass

Case Back: Grade 5 titanium

Lume: Super-LumiNova

Water Resistance: 100 meters

Strap: Black textile strap with titanium DLC-coated buckle

Calibre: ETA 2824/2

Functions: Hours, minutes, day of week, date, oil temperature

Winding: Automatic

Frequency: 4 Hz (28,800 Vph)

Power Reserve: 36 Hours

Price: CHF 38,200

Limited Edition: No

November 30 2023

Ressence Launches The Coloured Type 1º Round M

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In 2014 we saw the birth of the curious Type 1 watch from the Belgian watchmaker Ressence which, in addition to its unique dial with moving discs, came with a case without a visible crown, and it was at the beginning of this year that the Type 1º Round appeared.

The Type 1º Round, which many will have difficulty distinguishing from the original model due to its clear similarities, in short, appears thinner and flatter on the outside and with a cleaner dial.

Moving immediately to the recent ‘Round M’ it comes with a multicoloured dial hence the origin of the ‘M’ in its name. And if many in the past may have been bored with some monotony of colours in the Ressence Type 1, then we have good news, as the new Ressence presents a varied colour palette, with the rings surrounding the minute indicators painted blue, the hour indicators green, seconds in yellow and weekdays in red. The background is faded grey tones accompanied by the darker grey tone of the hands of each of the discs, all of them with coloured tips in different shades, white accents that extend across each of the four discs, and all filled with Grade A Super-LumiNova.

The watch comes dressed in a Grade 5 titanium case measuring 42.70mm in diameter and 11mm thick, which comes with a polished finish, wire lugs, double domed sapphire crystal, solid rear case with crown which, in addition to setting the time, also allows winding it despite its automatic movement and splash resistance of just 10m.

Inside it operates the ROCS 1.3 module, which is based on the modified ETA 2892, with 212 components, reaching 28,800 Vph and offering a day and a half of power reserve.

The new Ressence Type 1st Round M comes attached to a light grey rubber strap and is priced at CHF 16,800.

Read more here.

General Specifications:

Brand: Ressence

Model: Type 1º

Reference: Round M

Dial: Grey

Case Material: Grade 5 titanium

Case Dimensions: 42.70 mm Diameter, 11 Thickness

Crystal: Sapphire glass

Case Back: Grade 5 titanium

Lume: Super-LumiNova Grade A

Water Resistance: Splash (10 meters)

Strap: Grey rubber strap

Calibre: ROCS 1.3

Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, day of week

Winding: Automatic

Frequency: 4 Hz (28,800 Vph)

Jewels: 40

Components: 212

Power Reserve: 36 Hours

Price: CHF 16,800

Limited Edition: No

November 22 2023

Dubai Watch Week Picks

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Now that Dubai Watch Week 2023 is over, we offer a quick look at some novelties that stood out to us the most and that we hadn’t yet had the opportunity to deal with properly, and without any order criteria, let’s look at them.

Ulysse Nardin The Freak One OPS

First launched in 2001 and chosen as the winner of the Iconic Watch prize at this year’s GPHG awards, the watch maintains its futuristic characteristics without a crown and with a movement that also works as hands.

Ulysse Nardin has now launched a stealth version dressing the watch with a titanium case and a carbon bezel, while the dial is dressed in khaki green whose tone also extends to its rubber strap.

Ulysse Nardin, Freak One OPS, 2403-500-8A/3A. Khaki-green dial, Black DLC titanium case with Carbonium bezel, 44 mm diameter, sapphire crystal, 30 meters water resistance, khaki-green rubber strap. Calibre UN-240, automatic movement, hour, minutes, 21,600 Vph, 15 jewels. CHF 63,000.

Doxa Sub 300β Seddiqi Limited Edition

Doxa, in partnership with the founders of the event, Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons launches a new variant of its Sub 300β line, in a limited edition of 50 pieces, an exclusive to Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons.

The watch maintains all the technical and aesthetic characteristics of its peers, with the exception of the dial which now comes in blue mother-of-pearl matching the bezel insert and attached to a white rubber strap.

Doxa, Sub 300β Seddiqi Limited Edition, 830.10.211.10-SE4. Blue mother-of-pearl dial, stainless steel case, 42.50 mm diameter, 11.95 mm thickness, sapphire crystal, 300 meters water resistance, beads-of-rice steel bracelet and white FKM rubber strap. Calibre Sellita SW200-1, automatic movement, hour, minutes, seconds, date, 28,800 Vph, 26 jewels, 38 hours of power reserve. Limited edition of 50 pieces, € 2,980.

H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Small Seconds Micro-Rotor

The new variant of the Streamliner Small Seconds comes with some very interesting new features, starting with the appealing blue enamel-grained dial, which also comes with a gradient effect, the tone of which intensifies from the centre to the outside.

Its dimensions have also been reduced, now embracing a case measuring 39mm in diameter and 10.90mm thick, largely thanks to its new internal movement, the In-house HMC 500 micro-rotor, which operates at a frequency of 3 Hz and offers 3 days of power reserve.

H. Moser & Cie, Streamliner Small Seconds Micro-Rotor. Blue dial, Stainless steel case, 39 mm diameter, 10.90 mm thickness, sapphire crystal, 120 meters water resistance, integrated stainless steel bracelet. Calibre HMC500, automatic movement, hour, minutes, small seconds, 21,600 Vph, 26 jewels, 72 hours of power reserve. CHF 29,900.

Frederique Constant Highlife Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar & The Avener Editions

There are three Frederique Constant releases, and starting with the ‘simple’ ones, these are two limited editions of 432 pieces each launched in partnership with the French musician and producer Avener, with the basic time and date functions, which stand out for their its dials that try to recreate the sound waves of the studio monitors in blue in the steel version and in grey in the version with a case with black sandblasted DLC coating.

The other novelty is also a limited edition of 35 pieces of the Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar that comes in a 41mm rose gold case and with a blue dial.

Frederique Constant, Highlife Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar & Highlife Automatic x The Avener, FC-975BL4NH9 (tourbillon), FC-303TA3NH6B (Avener steel), FC-303TA3DNH6 (Avener black). Blue (tourbillon) and black (Avener) dial, 18k rose gold (tourbillon) and stainless steel (Avener) case, 41 mm diameter x 12.65 mm thickness (tourbillon) and 39 mm diameter x 10.34 mm thickness (Avener), sapphire crystal, 30 meters (tourbillon) and 100 meters (Avener) water resistance, blue alligator (tourbillon) and stainless steel/black rubber (Avener) strap. Calibre FC-975 (tourbillon) and FC-303 (Avener), automatic movement, hour, minutes, seconds, date (Avener), perpetual calendar (tourbillon), tourbillon (tourbillon), 38 hours of power reserve. Limited edition of 35 pieces (tourbillon) and 432 pieces each (Avener), USD 48,995 (tourbillon), USD 2,295 (Avener steel), USD 2,495 (Avener black).

Ressence Type 1° DX3

It is the epilogue of the three collaborations with Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons that appears once again in the form of a limited edition of 35 pieces.

The new Type 1º DX3, like previous editions, comes with the same Arabic mosaic pattern on the dial that now receives a thin layer of rose gold, which is filled with Super-LumiNova, which glows green in the dark.

On the outside is the 42.70 mm titanium case that shapes the watch and houses the modified ETA 2892 automatic movement that comes with a 36-hour power reserve.

Ressence, Type 1º DX3. German silver dial with a rose gold coated and filled with Super-LumiNova, Grade 5 titanium case, 42.70 mm diameter, 11 mm thickness, sapphire crystal, 10 meters water resistance, beige rubber strap. Calibre ROCS 1.3, automatic movement, hour, minutes, seconds, day of the week, 28,800 Vph, 40 jewels, 36 hours of power reserve. Limited edition of 35 pieces, CHF 23,600.

Oris Divers Sixty-Five Date Cotton Candy Sepia

For the first time, the Cotton Candy collection comes with a black dial and a date window with a background in the same colour.

Like the other elements of the collection, it embraces a 38mm case that comes in copper and matches the hour markers and hands on the dial filled with Super-LumiNova beige.

Inside there is nothing new operating the Caliber 733 based on the Sellita SW200-1 which offers up to 41h of power reserve.

The watch that joins the permanent collection can be purchased with a copper bracelet or a black rubber strap.

Oris, Divers Sixty-Five Date Cotton Candy Sepia, 01 733 7771 3154-07. Black dial, Bronze case, 38 mm diameter, sapphire crystal, 100 meters water resistance, bronze bracelet or black rubber strap. Calibre Oris 733, automatic movement, hour, minutes, seconds, date, 28,800 Vph, 26 jewels, 41 hours of power reserve. € 2,450 (rubber strap) – € 2,750 (bronze bracelet).

September 1 2023

Introducing The New Ressence Type 3 EE

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Ressence presents the new Type 3 EE green-‘Eucalyptus’.

The new Type 3, which is presented for the first time with a coloured dial, since all previous versions until now shared the same black background with indices in different tones, now arrives in an interesting eucalyptus green.

The watch maintains the rest of the layout, with an oil-filed dial, made up of internal rotating discs, where we can find the largest disc that provides the minutes with the help of the minute outer ring, the second wider disc that provides the hours, a second outer ring responsible for the date and even smaller discs responsible for reading the days of the week and the oil temperature.

On the outside, the traditional 44mm by 15mm titanium case, sapphire glass with edges, and no crown, as the adjustments to the dial are provided by the handling of the case back and textured strap in green with titanium buckle.

Inside, it operates the Caliber ROCS 3 manual movement, which operates at a frequency of 4 Hz and offers up to 38 hours of power reserve.

The Ressence Type 3 EE will be available from October with a price of CHF 38,200 (taxes not included).

Read more here.

General Specifications:

Brand: Ressence

Model: Type 3 EE – Eucalyptus

Dial: Green

Case Material: Grade 5 titanium

Case Dimensions: 44 mm Diameter, 15 Thickness

Crystal: Sapphire glass

Case Back: Grade 5 titanium

Lume: Super-LumiNova

Water Resistance: 10 meters

Strap: Green textile strap with grade 5 titanium buckle

Calibre: ROCS 3

Functions: Hours, minutes, day, date, oil temperature

Winding: Manual

Frequency: 4 Hz (28,800 Vph)

Jewels: 47

Power Reserve: 38 Hours

Price: CHF 38,200

Limited Edition: No

June 23 2022

Introducing the Ressence Type 5 AIT

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Ressence, in collaboration with the Monaco-based collective Art In Time, presents the new Ressence Type 5 AIT, a limited edition of 12 watches, whose flagship is to contribute to the protection of the environment and the sustainable promotion of local and global development.

Of the 12 watches, only 11 will be made available to the public and each one with unique yellow detail on the hours’ disc, while the 12 watch presents the Ressence logo in yellow and will be sold at a charity event in September with the proceeds going to the Prince Albert II Foundation of Monaco.

The Foundation, created in 2006, aims to bring together important personalities from the political, scientific, economic and civil spheres around the world with the aim of protecting the ocean and land, contributing to the protection of endangered species, improving the living conditions of rural communities through sustainable and ethical solutions.

Regarding the new Ressence TYPE 5, it stands out above all from the previous variants by presenting a grey dial with several yellow details. And starting with the Grade 5 titanium tapered case, it features a sandwich-style construction, with polished and satin finishing, uni-directional bezel, which now comes with protrusions every 10 minutes and with the 60-minute mark being replaced with an inverted yellow triangle, domed sapphire crystal and the rear-mounted crown deploys the Ressence Compression lock System (RCLS).

As for the dial, it now features a yellow outer ring minute, and the usual layout of three uneven discs, one for hours, one for seconds and one for oil temperature, all of them sharing yellow accents and filled with generous layers of Super-LumiNova allowing easy reading even in low light situations. Below the oil-filled upper chamber is an air-filled lower chamber that houses the automatic movement, which uses a magnet transmission to drive the discs on the Ressence Orbital Convex System (ROCS) dial.

Inside it is powered by the patented ROCS 5 based on the customized Caliber 2824/2 which operates at 28,800 Vph and offers up to 36 hours of power reserve.

The watch is supplied with a yellow rubber strap with a grade 5 titanium buckle.

The 11 units available to the public will be available for purchase exclusively at Art In Time for €35,500.

Read more here.

General Specifications:

Brand: Ressence

Model: Type 5 AIT

Dial: Grey

Case Material: Grade 5 titanium

Case Dimensions: 46 mm Diameter, 15.5 thickness

Lume: Super-LumiNova

Water Resistance: 100 meters

Strap: Yellow rubber strap with grade 5 titanium buckle

Calibre: ROCS 5 (based on ETA Caliber 2824-2)

Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, oil temperature

Winding: Automatic

Frequency: 28,800 Vph

Jewels: 41

Power Reserve: 36 Hours

Price: € 35,500

Limited Edition: Yes, 12 pieces

March 24 2022

Introducing the Ressence Type 8C

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Ressence, after getting used to oil-filled dials over the last few years, now presents the Type 8C with a non-oil-filled dial and an “entry-level price”.

The new Ressence Type 8C stands out at first sight for being the simplest, where the usual “extra” complications no longer have space in the new cobalt blue dial.

Keeping its signature, the ROCS (Ressence Orbital Convex System), which, in a very simplistic way, provides the reading of the time through several discs that rotate around the dial, and which, in the specific case of the Type 8C, turns the larger diameter disc, where the minute hand lives, around the dial, “dragging” with it a smaller diameter disc that works as the hours sub-dial.

The new Ressence watch and sixth in the lineage of the Belgian brand, is based on a tapered case with a sandwich-style construction, in Grade 5 titanium and 42.9mm diameter, with a polished and satin-brushed finish and which weighs just 42 grams including the strap, hide lugs or as the brand calls it with a “skirt” and no crown in sight, another of its novelties, which is now integrated into the case back.

The cobalt blue dial, in addition to aggregating the two discs that work through the patented ROCS system, includes the Ressence logo at 12 o’clock in the hour sub-dial, hands and the hours and minutes markers all in white filled with Super-LumiNova that in the dark it glows blue.

Inside operates the automatic movement based on the ETA Caliber 2892-2 that offers up to 36 hours of power reserve.

The watch will be available from March 30 at the brand’s official retailers at a price of CHF 12,500 (excluding taxes).

Our Opinion

The new Type 8C for many is far from an entry-level, CHF 12,500 (excluding taxes) is a lot of money, however, if we take into account previous models the price is clearly friendlier, it is clear that with it many of the complications were sacrificed, but the watch does not fail to distinguish itself from its peers, housing ROCS technology and translating its value.

While the 42.8mm snare may “scare” some audience with more modest wrists, the fact that it comes with hiding lugs shatters part of that myth, making it fit on smaller wrists and that’s a smart move of the brand.

Finally, a reference to the cobalt blue dial, which breaks with the monochromatic black dials of the rest of the collection and which is undoubtedly other of the positive points that we have to point out.

Read more here.

General Specifications:

Brand: Ressence

Model: Type 8C

Dial: Cobalt blue

Case Material: Grade 5 titanium

Case Dimensions: 42.9 mm Diameter, 11 thickness

Lume: Super-LumiNova

Water Resistance: 10 meters

Strap: Blue leather strap with Grade 5 titanium buckle

Calibre: ROCS8 (based on ETA Caliber 2892-2)

Functions: Hours, minutes

Winding: Automatic

Frequency: 28,800 Vph

Jewels: 31

Power Reserve: 36 Hours

Price: CHF 12,500 (excluding taxes)

Limited Edition: No

Category: RESSENCE

Ulysse Nardin The Freak One OPS

Doxa Sub 300β Seddiqi Limited Edition

H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Small Seconds Micro-Rotor

Frederique Constant Highlife Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar & The Avener Editions

Ressence Type 1° DX3

Oris Divers Sixty-Five Date Cotton Candy Sepia

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