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Lot Essay
One of the immediately striking features of Ressence watches is that they do not have traditional hands, but instead a dial with three discs that rotate for the indications. One will notice as well that there is no visible crown on the watch, either on the case side or back.
Ingeniously, by rotating the sandblasted titanium caseback it is possible to set time and wind the watch.Founded in 2010 by Benoît Mintiens in Antwerp, Belgium. The brand name is taken from the words ‘Renaissance’ and ‘essence’.
The Ressence brand was launched at Baselworld in 2010, where 3 prototypes were displayed. In early 2011, the first series of 50 watches, christened 'Zero Series' was launched. In spring 2012 the 'Series One' was introduced. This latter series was an upgrade to the zero series, this time without screws to hold the back sapphire, downturned lugs and a shock absorption system, small changes were also made to the time module. The Zero Series watches were assembled by VRJ in Waterloo, Belgium. For the assembly of Series One, Ressence started working with Montres Ludovic Ballouard in Geneva. The third series, 'Type 3', was introduced at Baselworld in 2013. Being one of the first watches to be made without a crown, CBS News's Techcrunch reported on the new model as a possible future direction in watches.
Ingeniously, by rotating the sandblasted titanium caseback it is possible to set time and wind the watch.Founded in 2010 by Benoît Mintiens in Antwerp, Belgium. The brand name is taken from the words ‘Renaissance’ and ‘essence’.
The Ressence brand was launched at Baselworld in 2010, where 3 prototypes were displayed. In early 2011, the first series of 50 watches, christened 'Zero Series' was launched. In spring 2012 the 'Series One' was introduced. This latter series was an upgrade to the zero series, this time without screws to hold the back sapphire, downturned lugs and a shock absorption system, small changes were also made to the time module. The Zero Series watches were assembled by VRJ in Waterloo, Belgium. For the assembly of Series One, Ressence started working with Montres Ludovic Ballouard in Geneva. The third series, 'Type 3', was introduced at Baselworld in 2013. Being one of the first watches to be made without a crown, CBS News's Techcrunch reported on the new model as a possible future direction in watches.