The Watch of the Now, the Doctrine of the Old

For sixteen years, Ressence built its identity in opposition to industry orthodoxy. The TYPE 11 quietly confirms that orthodoxy wins in the end.

The press release for the TYPE 11 hits the pitch such announcements are now expected to occupy: the language of milestone, the cadence of ascent, the practiced honorifics of first and in-house. Antwerp has built a movement. Antwerp is COSC-compliant. The Werk RW-01 has forty jewels, sixty-seven gears, eighteen ball bearings, twin barrels, a sixty-hour r…