Adesse Watch by Jansen Che is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award d'Argentu in Disignu di Ghjuielleria Competition Category.

ArgentuGhjuielleria· 2021

Adesse Watch

by Jansen Che

Client: Jansen Che

A' Design Award d'Argentu Winner in Ghjuielleria Category

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The Design

About Adesse Watch

Adesse hè un orologio ultra-minimalista chì face cum'è un ricordu per gode di u presente. L'approcciu minimalista per diventà & # 039; prisente & # 039; hè di sguassà l'innecessariu. Adesse reimagina l'orologio analogicu tradiziunale cù principii minimalisti, è dumanda ciò chì hè assolutamente necessariu per dì l'ora. Avete veramente bisognu di vede l'indicatori numerichi? A manu di i minuti ? A manu di l'ora ? Cuncepitu attraversu a sottrazione, e funzioni tradiziunali di l'orologio sò eliminate. Un pezzu sculpturale hè scolpitu da a faccia di u watch. A faccia gira, copre è deliberatamente revela appena abbastanza per dì l'ora.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argentu

Adesse Watch hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu, una ricunniscenza straordinariamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di alta gamma, splendidi è impressiunanti. I vincitori d'Argentu sò opere tremendamente brillanti è estremamente creative chì illustranu l'espertisa, u talentu è l'acutezza eccezziunali di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Adesse Watch sia una opera maravigliosa di mostra, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è prufondamente innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu hè una invenzione assai nutevule è ammirata chì benefizia è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Adesse Watch hè una creazione assai invidiata chì evoca disideri, introduce sentimenti pusitivi è accende stupore è maraviglia.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The Adesse watch design concept reimagines the traditional analog watch with minimalist principles. It takes minimalism to the extreme by omitting the superfluous and questioning what is absolutely necessary to tell the time. Designed through subtraction, traditional watch features are removed. A sculptural rotating piece is carved out. The watch deliberately only reveals just enough to tell the time at any one moment, acting as a memento to live in the present moment. Please see PDF attached.
Dimensions & Packaging: 38mm Diameter watch
Tags: Minimalilsm, Minimalist, Watch, Adesse, concept,
Production Technology: A special watch movement is required to be strong enough to rotate the sculptural piece and also to relocate the crown to the bottom of the watch. Allowing a perfect circular silhouette watch case.
Design Challenge: The creative challenge was to see how traditional watch features could be removed and still tell the time. The design process was guided by the minimalist principle "Design through subtractions". The form of the watch was created exclusively by carving/subtracting. Ensuring the legibility of the watch was also a challenge. This was overcome by a delicate balance between manipulation of the form and materials.
Research: The research conducted consistent of looking for various minimalist watches and non-standard watches which had rotating disc as watch hands. Through this research and collaboration with watch manufacturers, we were able to find what was technically possible for the watch.
Inspiration: In today’s world, we are exposed to many different types of stimuli that often easily distract us from appreciating and truly enjoying the present moment. The minimalist approach to become present, is to remove the unnecessary. Adesse reimagines the traditional analog watch with minimalist principles, and questions what is absolutely necessary to tell the time. Do we really need to see the numerical indicators? A second hand? A minute hand? hour hand?
Project Duration: Designed in Sydney Australia. Exhibited in Singapore 2019.
Operation Flow: Adesse reads like a one-hand watch. From a bird’s eye view, one can only see the hour markers, as they are scored deeper, wider, and taller than the quarter markers in the case interior. It is only from a side-on view that the quarter markings (15min, 30min, 45min) between each hour are revealed. As time progresses throughout the day, most of the quarter markers become hidden by the rotating sculptural face. The only quarter markers that are fully revealed are the ones that are relevant to that hour acting as a memento to enjoy the present.
Patents: 201914279. Jansen Che. 2019. Australia
Team Members: Jansen Che