A Beautiful Watch for your Inner Brutalist - Yanko Design

January 31, 2022 Post a Comment

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1364836861/the-masonic-watch-a-uniquely-designed-concrete-tim?

UPDATE: less than 24 hours left on their entrada!

As nearly watches strive to innovate and position themselves as new and unique, they all usually follow the same template. Stainless Steel body, curved Sapphire glass, and a few rare elements/jewels. Amass Watches stepped in to break the mold by creating a watch that looks similar no other. With a bezel and punch made from actual concrete, the Masonic scout is probably the most cute and unforgettable picket I've seen in a while, as information technology pays tribute to the Freemasons, one of early society'south first architects, as well as the Brutalist architecture movement of the 50s and 60s, that sought to celebrate concrete as non just a structural fabric but also as an innately artful cloth. Brutalism came from the term béton brut, French for raw concrete.

Concrete is extremely challenging to work with. It isn't recommended in cases where you would crave intricate detailing and low tolerances, making it extremely challenging to incorporate into watches, given how everything is based on machined components and intricate assemblies. Concrete has a tendency to bit, form bubbles, and have an inconsistent surface finish. However Aggregate used these very properties to their advantage, developing new technologies to make precise concrete components, and showcase their imperfections as design details. In fact, their proprietary alloy of concrete is said to be more than durable than most.

Featuring a concrete dial and bezel (a first of its kind), the Masonic watches come in 4 styles with two concrete finishes. The Gravel, Navy, and Oat Brownish feature a archetype concrete stop, with air bubbles and an inconsistent greying that give the watches a certain maturity, while likewise ensuring no two watches are identical. A Charcoal variant features a blackened concrete dial and bezel, blending in beautifully with the black casing and strap, creating something seamless still unique.

All watches come with a machined stainless steel casing on which rests a ring-shaped physical bezel. Inside this ring lies the protective Sapphire crystal drinking glass, which gives a grand display of the concrete dial underneath. The watches pair themselves with straps made from top grain leather, with gray, dark-brown, navy blue, and black tans that complement the concrete wonderfully. The stainless steel is given a brushed stop as well, so that more emphasis falls on the concrete rather than on a polished steel surface. All watches come with a Japanese Miyota 203A Quartz motility, and fifty-fifty with their concrete structure, weigh simply 0.two pounds (90.72 grams).

A beautiful matrimony between rough and elegant, country-of-the-art and unconventional, and being both resilient and gorgeous, the Masonic watches volition hands be one of the most alluring and unique timepieces you'll e'er wear!

Designers: Jonathan Thai & Mike Yim of Amass Watches

BUY NOW: $189.00 ~~$249.00~~