Abstract
- Tadao Ando collaborates with Cauny on two watch fashions
- Impressed by youth and resilience, the watches incorporate Ando’s signature inexperienced apple motif and a leaf-shaped handset
- Priced at €198 EUR, orders are open till June 20, 2024
Acclaimed Japanese architect Tadao Ando has lent his distinct minimalist imaginative and prescient to Swiss watch model, Cauny. The collaboration introduces two fashions: Ando Inexperienced and Ando Gray, every obtainable in 37.5mm and 31.5mm case sizes.
Impressed by youth and resilience, each watches incorporate Ando’s inexperienced apple motif, a recurring image in his inventive works that represents potential, renewal and a contact of invigorating sourness. The idea is deeply linked to Samuel Ullman’s poem “Youth,” which means that youth isn’t a stage of life however a way of thinking. “Time, area, and structure are at all times one theme. I assumed a watch may imprint time into the guts. That’s why I needed this inexperienced apple watch to be one thing that makes folks really feel time,” Ando explains.
The Ando Inexperienced mannequin embraces a vivid apple-green hue, symbolizing freshness and vitality, whereas the Ando Gray version pays homage to Ando’s concrete structure, that includes a brushed metal end that evokes the uncooked textures of his iconic buildings. Each fashions preserve a clear, unembellished dial, free from conventional hour markers, reinforcing Ando’s dedication to purity in design. A leaf-shaped handset subtly references the apple theme, including a playful but understated contact to the aesthetic.
Cauny has a historical past of collaborating with famend architects, having beforehand labored with Pritzker Prize-winning figures akin to Eduardo Souto Moura and Álvaro Siza. With a price ticket of €198 EUR (approx. $225 USD), the Tadao Ando x Cauny watches can be found to order by the model’s web site till June 20, 2024.
