Dezeen Observe Store: we’re now stocking four watches by Swiss manufacturer Pierre Junod, including a model by late Italian designer Massimo Vignelli.
Halo by Massimo Vignelli for Pierre Junod
The Halo, Evening Sky, White Sky and Circle watches, created by Bienne designer Pierre Junod’s eponymous firm, are all available to purchase from Dezeen Observe Store.
Halo by Massimo Vignelli for Pierre Junod
Each of the watches developed by the brand follows a pared-back type, made to outlast fads and trends. “We really like the intemporal patterns – a watch that will nevertheless be good soon after a lot of, many many years,” Junod advised Dezeen.
Halo was designed by Massimo Vignelli, who died last year aged 83, and his wife Lella – who famously collaborated on the graphics for New York’s subway technique and had a shut functioning connection with Junod.
Halo by Massimo Vignelli for Pierre Junod
The Vignellis’ 1994 style attributes an interchangeable coloured ring all around the encounter, which has only 1 marker at the 12 o’clock position. Dezeen View Shop stocks these chrome-plated “halos” in black, navy and grey. Two easy grey hands and a black leather strap add to the minimum aesthetic.
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“[Vignelli’s] investigation of Minimalist styles – no visible crown, no brand, no name on dials, no visible band-attachment – is unique,” Junod told Dezeen. “He never needed a watch with a calendar or a 2nd-hand, only vital aspects.”
Circle by Tobias Jacobsen and Soren Varming for Pierre Junod
Copenhagen designers Tobias Jacobsen and Soren Varming are behind the Circle view, which is marked with two concentric rings of tiny hoops to indicate hour and minute increments.
Circle by Tobias Jacobsen and Soren Varming for Pierre Junod
Launched by Pierre Junod in 2009, the style features a brushed steel situation, a black calf-leather strap, and is water resistant to thirty-metre depths.
Evening Sky by Pierre Junod
Dezeen Observe Store at the moment stocks the edition with a white face, which is protected by scratch-evidence sapphire crystal.
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Two versions of a model designed by Junod have also joined the Dezeen Observe Retailer assortment. The Night Sky and White Sky watches the two incorporate 40-millimetre brushed stainless steel cases and tan calf-leather straps.
Night Sky by Pierre Junod
The White Sky style has a luminescent face that glows for six to eight hours right after getting exposed to about 12 hrs of daylight.
Night Sky illuminates in a related way, but from a black encounter rather than white.
White Sky by Pierre Junod
Junod’s firm has been producing watches considering that 1994 and aims to source ethical parts for their manufacture.
Most come from the suppliers found in Bienne – the city at the heart of the Swiss observe business – while leather utilised for straps is brought in from Belgium.
Evening Sky by Pierre Junod
“We want to make eco-pleasant watches,” explained Junod.
“We use only 100 per cent Swiss-produced movements and non-lithium or mercury-free batteries. Even our packaging is manufactured of recycled cardboard – no Asian-plastic gift boxes that are not able to be recycled.”
Night Sky and White Sky by Pierre Junod
The brand also helps make watches designed by Richard Meier, Mario Botta and André Ricard.
