Astronomer skra rtsi'i chu tshod 'khor lo by Fuqing Ye and Liyue Lai

Astronomer skra rtsi'i chu tshod 'khor lo by Fuqing Ye and Liyue Lai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award དངུལ་གྱི་བྱ་དགའ in རྒྱན་ཆ་བཟོ་བཀོད། Competition Category.

དངུལརྒྱན་ཆ།· 2021

Astronomer skra rtsi'i chu tshod 'khor lo

by Fuqing Ye and Liyue Lai

Client: Agelocer

A' Design Award དངུལ་གྱི་བྱ་དགའ Winner in རྒྱན་ཆ། Category

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The Design

About Astronomer skra rtsi'i chu tshod 'khor lo

skar rtsis pa ni zla ba'i gnas skabs kun gzigs mthong sa can gyi 'khrul 'khor chu tshod 'khor lo zhig yin. zla ba'i gnas skabs ston pa'i sgor sgor ni tshangs thig 28 tshad du bskyed pa dang chu tshod 'khor lo'i ngos yongs su khyab par byas yod pas, zla ba'i 'phel 'grib gsal por lta thub. mthing kha nag po'i chu tshod ngos la dngul gyis g.yogs shing skar ma'i rgyan gyis brgyan yod. zla ba'i ngos ni 3D par 'debs kyi lag rtsal gyis slar bskrun yod. tshad med du bcos chog pa'i sbrel sgrom des rgyus pa la bu ga med par lag pa phal mo che dang mthun par 'gro bas, bzo skrun las sla ru gtong ba dang rgyu cha 'phro brtsad byed. rgyus pa yang lag cha med par phyir bton nam brje thub.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award དངུལ་གྱི་བྱ་དགའ

Astronomer skra rtsi'i chu tshod 'khor lo ནི་ A' Design Award དངུལ་གྱི་བྱ་དགའི་ཐོབ་པ་པོ་ཡིན། དེ་ནི་མཛེས་སྡུག་ཅན། མཐོ་བ་དང་སེམས་འགུལ་ཆེ་བའི་རིམ་པ་མཐོ་བའི་ཌི་ཟའི་ན་རྣམས་ལ་སྤྲོད་པའི་ངོས་འཛིན་ཐ་མལ་མིན་པའི་གཟེངས་ཆེ་བ་ཞིག་ཡིན། དངུལ་གྱི་བྱ་དགའ་ཐོབ་མཁན་ནི་འོད་འཚེར་ཆེ་ཞིང་གསར་གཏོད་ཧ་ཅང་ཆེ་བའི་ལས་ཁུངས་ཡིན་ཞིང་རང་གི་ཌི་ཟའི་ན་པའི་ཤེས་ཡོན། སྐྱེས་ཁྱད་དང་མཐོང་རྒྱ་ཟབ་པ་མཚོན། Astronomer skra rtsi'i chu tshod 'khor lo ནི་ངོ་མཚར་ཆེ་བ། དཔེ་མཚོན་རུང་བ། ཆེད་ལས་རྩལ་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་དང་གསར་གཏོད་ཟབ་པའི་ལས་ཁུངས་ཡིན་པར་རེ། A' Design Award དངུལ་གྱི་བྱ་དགའ་ཐོབ་པའི་ཌི་ཟའི་ན་འདི་ནི་ཧ་ཅང་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ཡིད་ལ་འཛིན་པའི་གསར་སྐྲུན་ཡིན་ཞིང་ཕན་པ་སྦྱིན་ཅིང་སྒྱུ་རྩལ། ཚན་རིག ཌི་ཟའི་ན་དང་ལག་རྩལ་གྱི་མཐའ་མཚམས་འཕེལ། Astronomer skra rtsi'i chu tshod 'khor lo ནི་མི་མང་གིས་ཕྲག་དོག་བྱེད་པའི་གསར་སྐྲུན་ཡིན་ཞིང་འདོད་པ་སད་པ། ཚོར་བ་བཟང་པོ་སྐྱེད་པ་དང་ངོ་མཚར་སྐྱེད།

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The watch from Agelocer has a panoramic effect featuring the phases of the moon, which enlarges the view of the moon's phases to the entire dial plate. It allows users to intuitively feel the changes of moon phases, bringing them a unique aesthetic experience. The infinitely adjustable strap doesn’t need to produce long straps to match short straps and doesn’t need to punch holes in the strap, greatly simplifying manufacturing processes and saving energy and materials.
Dimensions & Packaging: Weight 82g，Wearing length 170mm-210mm
Tags: Moon phases, creative watch, mechanical watch, traditional industries, handmade
Production Technology: We adopted 3D printing technology to simulate and restore the surface of the moon, and we enlarged the moon-phase dial to the size of 28mm in diameter.The on/off lugs strap allows users to disassemble and replace it without any tools, which is convenient and easy. The infinitely adjustable clasp changes the way of wearing traditional mechanical watches.The strap can fit most wrists without the need for perforations, eliminating the need for standard hole spacing that affects the appearance.
Design Challenge: We redesigned the drive mechanism to enable the watch to drive the moon-phase dial, and we redesigned the anti-reverse mechanism to prevent the moon-phase dial from rotating when worn.
To highlight the relationship between the moon phases and the watch, it is necessary to control the size of the moon-phase dial and control the display error within a reasonable range. We repeatedly test to make the moon-phase window large enough, and enlarge the moon-phase dial to the size of 28mm in diameter.
Research: Background: The relationship between astronomical phenomena and the concept of time. Although there are already watches with the same subject on the market, they do not highlight the relationship.
Method: We combine astronomical phenomena, time, graphic changes and mechanical movements. And the moon phases are presented on the dial.
Goal: Achieve the integration of the moon, stars and watches.
Inspiration: Most of the concept of time in human society originates from the astronomical phenomena, such as the rising and setting of the sun, the waxing and waning of the moon. With the accelerating pace of modern life, people gradually neglect the observation of natural life. In order to allow a return to tradition, we decided to design the watch to reproduce the origin of time and astronomical phenomena. Inspired by the folding and pulling of ties, we designed the infinitely adjustable clasp.
Project Duration: The project was inspired and the design started in December 2017 at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China. The design was finalized in March 2018, then samples were produced. Samples were confirmed in August 2018 and launched in China in February 2019.
Operation Flow: Ordinary moon-phase watches do not highlight the relationship between the moon phases and the watch, which is a relatively small semicircle. This watch has a panoramic effect that enlarges the view of the moon's phases to the entire dial plate. The silver moon-phase dial is more eye-catching, and the users can observe the waxing and waning of the moon.The dark blue dial is overlaid with silver, adorned with a dazzling array of stars, providing an experience of time beyond the digital display.
Team Members: Fuqing Ye
Liyue Lai