Who said hands were the only way to mark the passage of time?
This is not the opinion of Volcy Bloch and Gautier Massonneau, who managed, in just a few years, to impose a very different concept within the big little watchmaking world.
It was not until 2018 that the complementary duo unveiled their first model of timepiece where the time is read not via a classic dial, but through discs, wheels and trilobes.
This ornamental motif made up of several circular arcs is inspired by the rose window of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.
Here, the smallest of the wheels marks the seconds and intertwines with the intermediate minutes wheel displayed in its aperture, while the largest of the rings indicates the hours.
The three discs rotate counter-clockwise, with the trilobe acting as an index.
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The skilful imbalance of this eccentric and eccentric display makes all the elegance, the difference.
Surprisingly, it does not destabilize anything.
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