Ressence watches

Ressence was founded in 2010 by Benoît Mintiens in Antwerp, Belgium, and showed three prototypes at Baselworld that year. A first production run, the ZeroSeries of 50 watches, followed in spring 2011. The company is independent, with headquarters in Antwerp and production in Geneva since 2012.

Its watches have no conventional hands. Time is shown by revolving discs and sub-dials that sit on one plane, driven by an in-house module called the Ressence Orbital Convex System (ROCS). The Type 3 of 2013 had no conventional crown and was partly filled with oil; it won the Horological Revelation prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève. The Type 5 of 2015, a titanium diving watch, uses the same oil-filled principle, with 100 m water resistance. The Type 1 was revised in 2014 without a crown, followed by a cushion-shaped Type 1 Squared in 2017 and the Type 1 Slim in 2019.