SS Navigator 男士手表 by Martin Iglody is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 珠宝设计 Competition Category.

铜珠宝· 2021

SS Navigator 男士手表

by Martin Iglody

Client: Martin Design

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 珠宝 Category

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The Design

About SS Navigator 男士手表

SS Navigator 的诞生源于对航海风格时计的热情。它们配备了许多受海洋启发的功能，并在这种影响下设计，体现了海上生活的美丽氛围。表盘上航海主题的主要元素是航海图和柚木甲板。机械手表的设计无需使用和更换电池，减少了地球上的碳足迹。因此，SS Navigator 由机械自动陀飞轮机芯提供动力。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

SS Navigator 男士手表是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计SS Navigator 男士手表将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。SS Navigator 男士手表出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The SS Navigator Watch Collection coming from the marine world. This timepieces embodies the atmosphere of life at sea optimizing precision, reliability and quality of this high-performance models. The strong nautical theme represents the elements – Nautical chart, and Teak Deck. With its sophisticated design, the SS Navigator is a versatile watch that makes that perfect companion for those who embrace the marine lifestyle.
Dimensions & Packaging: Case:

Metal Case - 316 L Stainless Steel
Diameter - 43 mm, Case Thickness - 13 mm
Sapphire Crystal Glass - Dial, Case Back and Crown

Strap:

Handcrafted Crocodile or Calfskin

Movement:

Peacock SL 5215 - Tourbillon Self Winding
Jewels - 33, Frequency - 21'600
Running Time - 40 Hours
Hours, Minutes and Small Power Reserve Hand at 12 O'clock

Dial:

Blue Sunburst with Nautical Chart Multi Layered Dial
or
Wooden Teak Deck Multi Layered Dial

Hours Indexes and Hands with Blue Luminous - BGW9
Tags: ss navigator, watch, automatic watch, marine style watch, tourbillon watch
Production Technology: The SS Navigator was designed in Ireland and assembled in Hong Kong - small watch manufacturing company, but each part of this models coming from different place. Movement SL 5215 from Peackok company in China. Dial was made in small factory in Shenzen with watch hands and watch strap are handcrafted in Vietnam using genuine leather and natural color substances.
Design Challenge: During design development process we encountered small challenge how to implement luminescent paint for the hour indices, hour and minute hands. This was planed advance and we selected blue luminescent paint BGW9. The hour indices are combined with top screw and triangular wedge shape and to just simply paint them on the top doesn't produce desirable outcome from the design perspective and very poor effect. The same issue applied for the hour and minute hands. To solve this challenge it has been decided to use thick dark blue navy color line in the middle of indices and hands. After we can apply luminescent paint on both sides of this line using shape of the indices and hands contour. This technique has very positive impact on final design of the dial. Also during night mode the shape of luminescent paint has very creative effect. There was one small issue during production process with the tourbillon movement holder - plastic ring. This holder wasn't supply by movement factory and we had to search for alternative from the hundreds of different kind of movement holders. It took some time and even we find one for our movement its still needs some small adjustment. We overcome this small issues very effectively and in very short time.
Research: The design ideas is always coming after some deep research is done before first sketch is draw on the paper. We dived into last five years of men's fashion watches and looking for most popular categories in the general public. There was selected four categories or styles for the data collection. Dive (Marine) style, Aviator style, Dress style and Racing style watches. For this research we implemented most popular tools as Watch blogs, Watch magazines, FB Watch groups, Watch reviewers and You tubers. On the end of this research there was only single result. The men's watches number one is Dive (Marine) style. This has significant impact on design process. The goal has been set to achieve creation of unique design of marine style watches where implementation of elements from this category are crucial. The project started with inspiration to use the nautical map for the dial texture with two navy colors light blue for background and dark navy blue for the numbers and nautical chart. During design process was decided to add extra dial with marine teak deck texture where two models was created in one instant. We tested the prototypes by wearing them using group of selected people and collected the feedback about the quality and design. After few details adjustments the response exceeded our expectation.
Inspiration: The SS Navigator was born out of the passion for marine style timepieces. There’s just something about a watch that combines nautical elegance and exceptional functionality.

The designs themselves were inspired by memories from six months on board the SS Navigator cruise ship incorporating key areas
and nautical symbols into design while the collection takes its names from the ship.
Project Duration: The project started in June 2018 from scratch design in Cork, Ireland and first prototype was made in January 2019. After small changes and adjustment the final prototype was born in August 2019.
Operation Flow: Men's Automatic self winding watches. The tourbillon models include three hands which show you hour, minute and power reserve of the watch mechanism. This model you can operate by unscrew the crown - pull out on the second position and set the time. With first position you can wind the watch.
Team Members: Martin Iglody
Paul Lin