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Ressence was founded in 2010 by Industrial Designer Benoît Mintiens.
The brand was created with one goal in mind: to reinvent the essence of a 21st Century watch. This quest involved, in keeping with the traditional ‘Less is More’ approach to design, removing all unnecessary attributes that traditional watches care to perpetuate decade after decade.
Behind this minimalistic approach to design, Ressence’s true purpose is to provoke wonder, to awaken senses and to make mechanical watches meaningful and lovable companions for today’s and tomorrow’s generations.
Benoît Mintiens started by removing one dimension and created with the SERIES ZERO a unique dial with flush discs that display time in 2D, as the human eye reads two dimensions more quickly.
This exercise continued later with the TYPE 1 when Ressence removed the crown, to make a truly leftright watch. Then came the award-winning TYPE 3 which removed the refraction of the glass by being partly filled with oil. Last but not least, the revolutionary TYPE 2 removed the need to set or wind a watch with the first automatic self-setting crown in the world.
Winners of the Horological Revelation Award at the prestigious Grand Prix d’Horlogerie, Ressence takes a distinctive approach to the craft of contemporary Fine Watchmaking, combining Swiss-made calibres with unmatched self-engineered innovation to reimagining how mechanical watches can function and interact with its user in the modern age.
