Online auction for W*/Maurice Lacroix watches

’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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Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.
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