Ahead of Time

This witty title plays both on the brand’s watchmaking and on the conversations its founder, Benoît Mintiens, an industrial designer, has with his friends—many of them customers of Ressence—as they share their …
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This witty title plays both on the brand’s watchmaking and on the conversations its founder, Benoît Mintiens, an industrial designer, has with his friends—many of them customers of Ressence—as they share their …
Eight watches with quietly soothing ornamentation
An artistic automatic timepiece exclusive to independent watchmaker platform Grail Watches
Neither a smartwatch nor an automatic one, but a hybrid mechanical piece that sets itself with two taps
A new development in the technology and artistry composing fine timepieces
Subtracting from decades of more-is-more wristwatches to deliver something beautiful
Since their launch in 2010, Ressence—designer Benoît Mintiens’s groundbreaking watch brand—has continued to release pieces that defy the ordinary, employing a unique disc-based mechanical system and a minimal, geometric aesthetic to match. …
A skeletonized German silver dial exposes the inner-workings of a piece bearing uncommon innovation
Updating the complications within the visually striking masterpiece
The brand's visionary founder discusses reimagining the mechanics of watchmaking