MoMA
- Base watch
- Ressence Type 8
- Design
- Nathan George Horwitt's Museum dial of 1947, with one dot near twelve and dauphine hands
- Case
- Grade 5 titanium, 42.9 mm, with no crown: turning the case back sets and winds the watch
- Black
- A coating of nanotubes standing on end like a forest traps more than 99.9 percent of light, so the dial looks like an empty hole
- Color
- A round window near twelve opens onto a gold disc painted by hand in grand feu enamel, blended through the whole spectrum and fired so the colors never fade
- Time
- The disc turns once every twelve hours, so the dot shows amber at ten and blue at four
- Movement
- Ressence ROCS 8 module on a self-winding ETA 2892/2, 36 hours of power reserve
This watch starts from the Ressence Type 8, which has no crown and shows the time on turning discs. We build the face from nanotube black, which absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light, and open one window near twelve onto a gold disc enameled through the spectrum. The dot changes color slowly, continuously, so the owner learns to read the time by its color.