’Whether designing shoes, belts, jewellery or a watch, it should never be too fancy on a guy,’ says Van Assche, which explains his subtle yet eye-catching features such as the strap which combines stainless steel barcelet with light brown calfskin and black gold external section on the dial and metal-coated sapphire crystal over the date indication.
We've had to fend off querelous buyers with cheque books since we first launched these watches with Maurice Lacroix earlier in the year. But the good news is that thanks to an online auction on www.antiquorum.com which runs till 22nd June, you can now be in with a chance of getting your hands on these striking timepieces, with all the proceeds going to charity.
Designed by a powerhouse trio, Spanish furniture designer Patricia Urquiola, Italian architect Rodolfo Dordoni, and Belgian fashion designer Kris Van Assche, the three watches are all one-offs and are the designer's own interpretation of the Swiss watchmaker's Red Dot award-winning Pontos Décentrique GMT.
’Caldera’ by Patricia Urquiola
’The concept of the design is to keep it very clean, giving it a playful side,’ say Urquiola. Her watch is thus given a simple black calfskin strap and a clear black-printed dial, but the displays all sit just a little off-center
’Stainless’ by Rodolfo Dordoni
’My goal was to gather three subjects - Maurice Lacroix, Wallpaper* and myself - in a single ’Stainless’ watch,’ says Dordoni, whose interpretation of the Pontos Decentrique GMT includes an engraved date mechanism and plished indexes to show the time, with a brown crocodile skin strap
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Must-visit cinemas with award-worthy designCreativity leaps the screen at these design-led cinemas, from Busan Cinema Centre’s record-flying roof to The Gem Cinema Jaipur’s art deco allure
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The modernist home of musician Imogen Holst gets Grade II listingThe daughter of the composer Gustav Holst lived here from 1964 until her death, during which time the home served a locus for her own composition work, which included assisting Benjamin Britten
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This fun and free-spirited photography exhibition offers a chromatic view on the world‘Chromotherapia’ at Villa Medici in Rome, explores how we view colour as a way of therapy, and how it has shaped photography over the last century (until 9 June 2025)
