Defakto Kinetik watches

The Defakto Kinetik is a 39 mm three-hand watch from Defakto, the German brand Raphael Ickler founded in 2009. Defakto is owned by the Ickler family, who have made watch cases in Germany since 1924 and also own Limes and Archimede, and the Kinetik is made in Pforzheim. In 2015 it was the smallest watch Defakto made.

The idea is in the hands. The dial carries two tracks of plain hash marks, minutes on the outer track and hours on the inner one. The hour hand is an open rectangle that frames the markers on the hours track, and the minute hand, also an open rectangle, frames markers on both tracks. The seconds hand is a simple needle. For one second each hour, all three hands overlap and form a single geometric shape on the dial.

The case is a three-piece steel design with a sapphire crystal, and inside is the ETA 2824-2. The Kinetik comes with two dials: matte black with white hands and markers, as on the 4.K-0101, and matte white with black hands and markers, as on the 4.K-0201. Defakto offered the case in brushed steel or with a PVD finish. The 4.K-0101-SW and 4.K-0201-SW carry the same black and white dials in the same 39 mm case.