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The concept is revolutionary. Get rid of the crown’s function for time setting. How? We filmed this video showing the functions which we released last week. For today’s article, we go in-depth, and provide you with all the details, and our hands-0n opinion on the Ressence Type 2 e-Crown Concept. But we let the cat out of the bag in the title…it is indeed the dawn of a new era.
The Ressence Type 2 e-Crown was also featured in our Chief Editor’s picks from the Geneva Shows.
The Ressence Type 2 e-Crown
What is it?
First, please see the functional demonstration video found in this link here.
In the following video, we have Ressence’s Gaëtan Gaye explain to us what the e-Crown is and does.
Pretty amazing, isn’t it? For us, this is a really excellent application of technology and is perhaps the first real useful extension of the Smart Watch concept. It works flawlessly in tandem with a Smartphone connected, and works equally well without the phone.
Ressence Type 2 E-Crown
Case, dial and hands
The case will be known as the Ressence Type 2. Ressence first came to the scene with the Type 1, and later they introduced the Type 3, and Type 5. It would seem that the naming nomenclature was based on odd numbers, but then for the e-Crown prototype, they released the Type 2.
What we saw in SIHH was a single working prototype presented by Gäetan and Benoît Mintiens (Ressence founder). They also revealed that they are hoping that production models can be made for sale by 3Q2018, and will be priced similar to the Ressence Type 3 (approx CHF 33,000 before taxes).
The case is round, with smooth, curved surfaces. The immediate impression is that is a well worn pebble to the touch, smooth in almost every direction. The hand feel is quite extraordinary, as if it has taken an organic persona. Well the feel is not extraordinary as far as Ressence watches go, but generically speaking it is reminiscent of one.
The strap, to which the watch is attached is very soft, very flexible, and feels very comfortable on the wrist. The watch itself is no thicker than the Type 2 with a case size of 44mm x 15mm height. When handled and worn on the wrist, the rather large case dimensions seems to shrink due to the curved sapphire glass on the dial side which creates the impression of the watch wrapping around one’s wrist.
Ressence Type 2 e-Crown
As usual with Ressence watches, there are no hands. but the entire main dial rotates, as do the sub-dials. On the Type 2 e-Crown concept watch, the dial is laid out such that the main rotating dial carries the minutes indication. To describe the layout, we need to fix the time, as the display and sub-dials continue to move around the dial with the time indication. For this purpose we use noon as the reference. At noon, the hour disc will be at the 6 o’clock position, with the arrow pointing up at 12. The […]
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