As quite a few architects flip their arms to designing watches, we spherical up six designed by Pritzker Structure Prize-winners together with Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Álvaro Siza.
LeBond Souto de Moura by Eduardo Souto de Moura
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura designed a minimalist look ahead to LeBond that has its face rotated by 30 levels.
Based on the architect, he positioned the 12 the place the 1 would historically be to offer a “new spin on acquainted issues” and create the optimum viewing angle for wearers.
“The 12 is the reference, and we rotate 30 levels for optimum visibility on the wrist,” mentioned Souto de Moura.
Serpenti Tuboga x Tadao Ando by Tadao Ando
Designed for Bulgari, Tadao Ando’s watch was created as an addition to the jewelry model’s snake-themed Serpenti vary.
“Tadao Ando possesses a uncommon creativity, impressed by nature and its transient character,” mentioned Bulgari govt director of product creation Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani.
“Aligning with Serpenti felt instinctive. In a metaphor for time and transformation, certainly for the renewal of nature itself: the serpent likewise sheds its pores and skin and emerges anew, its colours remodeled.”
Tambour Moon Flying Tourbillon Poinçon de Genève Sapphire Frank Gehry by Frank Gehry
The most recent watch designed by Frank Gehry was created for luxurious model Louis Vuitton. The clear timepiece was knowledgeable by his structure, specifically the sail-like types of the Fondation Louis Vuitton and the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul buildings.
Its rippling case, dial, crown, lugs and arms have been all minimize from a single 200-kilogram block of sapphire.
Lebond Siza by Álvaro Siza
Spanish architect Álvaro Siza additionally took inspiration from one in all his buildings for a watch designed for Lebond.
The angular timepiece has a sq. form that was knowledgeable by the Leça swimming pool complicated in Portugal, whereas the watch’s arms nod to the minimalist restroom indicators discovered within the leisure complicated.
Cauny X Siza by Álvaro Siza
Siza additionally designed a timepiece with Cauny director Filipe Costa Almeida, which he described as a watch that “appears to be like like a watch”.
The watches have been constructed with a super-slim casing, metal bezel, sapphire glass for the face and a leather-based bracelet.
Rafael Moneo x Cauny
One other watch that was immediately knowledgeable by structure, this timepiece was designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo to reference the clock at Atocha Statio in Madrid.
Each the clock and the watch function tall and skinny Roman numerals “that evoke the traditional sundials and strongly mark the dial”, based on Moneo.