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Jules Wittock, a Brussels artist who has drawn mazes freehand since childhood, has traced one for the dial of the Ressence TYPE 9, with a word hidden inside.

For Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens, a tool watch lives by functionality and legibility, and two new colourways of the TYPE 7 are built on that idea.

Benoît Mintiens, founder and creative leader of Ressence, describes the TYPE 11 as a watch of the present: contemporary, but not futuristic.

Kanazawa artist Terumasa Ikeda saw a planetary system in the TYPE 9’s orbital display, and built a dial of urushi lacquer and mother-of-pearl around it.

Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens wanted to merge his universe with that of industrial designer Marc Newson, and the TYPE 3 MN is the watch they made together.

For its first rose gold outing, Ressence founder Benoît Mintiens has warmed the crownless TYPE 1° with a rose-gold-plated dial, and chose Dubai Watch Week to show it.

Mark Cho, co-founder of the menswear retailer The Armoury, wanted a Ressence that could live with a suit, and founder Benoît Mintiens refined his ideas into one.

German artist Daniel Engelberg's concentric circles now orbit each other on a titanium dial, animated for the first time by Ressence's orbiting display.

Benoît Mintiens and Mohammed Abdulmagied Seddiqi went into the desert together to gather the sand that fills this dial, sourced from each of the seven Emirates.

Designed by Ressence for modern explorers, the TYPE 7 brings the brand its first GMT function and its first integrated titanium bracelet.

Benoît Mintiens, the industrial designer who founded Ressence, calls the TYPE 9 the smallest watch the brand can build given the size of its own components.