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Ressence
Ressence is an independent watch manufacturer founded in 2009. It is owned and managed by Benoît Mintiens, an industrial designer located in Antwerpen, Belgium, who is responsible for the conceptualisation and design of the watches and associated marketing. The brand name is a neologism based on the words Renaissance and Essence.
==Concept==
The particularity of Ressence’s patented time display system is that all graphical elements that form the dial lie in one co-planar surface very close under the sapphire glass, including the digits and the graphical hands. To indicate the time, the ‘mechanical display’ is composed of discs and rings that orbit around each other. Functions of the first and second lines are: AM/PM, hours, minutes and seconds. Although a number of people have commented that the watch is too difficult to read, some watch reporters have compared the watch design to that of Apple because of its combination of simplicity and functionality〔Anon. "Creazioni Uniche", ''Revolution: Orologi et Emozioni'', pp. 228-229. Fall 2011, no. 16.〕〔Chris Vermuyten and Wim Van Esbeek. "De Hervonden Tijd", ''Audi Magazine'', pp. 58-61. January 2012.〕〔Turner, Eve. ("Luxury watches and the rebirth of the essential" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 5 October 2012. Retrieved on 5 January 2013.〕〔De Donder, Johan. "De iPad van de horloges", ''Sabato, weekend edition of newspaper De Tijd'', pp. 24-25. 7 May 2011.〕〔Anon. "Ressence", ''Vedomosti'', Russian edition of Financial Times/Wall Street Journal, p. 61. March 2011 (vol. 93).〕 Because of the prominence of the minutes' hand, the watch is sometimes referred to as a regulator model. The co-planar rotating discs and rings are engraved and filled up with Super-LumiNova, although silver or titanium models with black versions of the material cannot be read in the dark despite the special paint. The automatic module uses a modified mechanical automatic Swiss Made caliber from ETA S.A. to power it.〔Livolsi, Megan. "Essence of Ressence", ''International Watch'', pp. 41-42. July 2012.〕〔Anon. "The Type 1004 - Dualtone", ''The Watch Magazine'', p. 19. December 2012.〕〔Anon. "Benoît Mintiens", ''Kwintessens — Tijdschrift over design en mode'', p. 34. Fall 2012.〕〔Anon. "België: Draaischijven", ''Knack'' no. 7, p. 68. 19 May 2011.〕〔Anon. "Pensamiento Lateral: Ressence Platform", ''El Economista'', ''Horloger'' special, no. 34, pp. 29-29. Summer 2011.〕
The use of rotating discs is no novelty per se, as in the 1970s various watches were introduced that used discs as opposed to hands to indicate time. Although few of these were popular, Seiko's limited edition "Discus Burger" from its 2007 "Moving Design" series — more or less a copy of the SWA0017 model brought out by Swatch in 1994 but with an extra seconds disc — continues to be very popular with collectors. The Discus Burger, which came out in black and white, uses discs with digital-type hour and minute markings that rotate on top of each other much like hands would. A small window at nine o'clock in the otherwise plain unmarked dial shows the time. Mintiens' idea of having the entire dial rotate clock-wise in which co-planar sub-dials with indexes orbit around a virtual axle was new. In 2010, Harry Winston introduced "Opus X" based on a comparable animation, but aesthetically and mechanically the concepts are different. One major difference lies in the fact that Opus X uses hands of different sizes and shapes to indicate time.〔Geelen, Frank. ("Weekly Watch Photo – Ressence" ), ''Monochrome'', 8 May 2012. Retrieved on 7 January 2013.〕〔Anon. "Harry Winston", ''Orologi 2010: Le Collezioni'', no. 24, p. 52. Rome: Tourbillon Srl, 2011.〕
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