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A collection of designed watches using our own cutting edge carbon leather and Swiss watch movements to make beautifully simple timepieces.
People need to know what time it is. And you can tell them whether they want to hear it or not.The town crier is a rarity these days, even here in Yorkshire, so many have taken to wearing a watch as it doesn't scream the time in their face.
Beautiful Italian Design
Designed by our in house chartered designer this timepiece takes design notes from a classic italian style and brings it into the 21st century with the slick carbon leather strap and a deep blue dichroic face that allows the watch to change and refract in different light. giving a deep dark midnight blue in the late hours of the day.
Swiss Engineering
Our aim was to make a timepiece that would be as reliable as it it good looking so naturally we looked to Switzerland and they have provided us with a Swiss ronda movement, so you won't lose a second. Switzerland produces some of the finest quality Swiss watch components, chocolate and international tax avoidance banking schemes in the world.
Quality Yorkshire Construction
We bring the parts from all over the world and assemble them here in the forges of Yorkshire to ensure each individual component is perfect, with a polished solid Stainless steel construction and the wear resistance of our Carbon proton Leather, this watch is as hard wearing as it is delicately put together.
The Detail
Key Features
Light
Our aim when we set out to design our watch was to keep it simple but retain a timeless elegance. We looked at time in the 24 hour period and could see how light was interacting with the world around us throughout the day. Looking to our timepiece, we wanted to try and capture some of that magic. So we set the task of creating a surface finish that would refract the light differently in varying lighting conditions. The solution was found in a metallic finish that behaves similar to that of dichroic glass. The end result is a watch that takes on the emotion of a cool wintry sunrise or is playfully vibrant on a warm summer afternoon in the park.
Mechanics
We framed all of this in a beautifully bright stainless steel case and placed a Swiss Ronda movement at its heart to make sure this time piece is as functional as it is captivating.
The luscious shine of the stainless steel is naturally complimentary to the dark carbon leather found across many of the Vanacci products but we wanted something a little bit special. So instead of taking a strap off the shelf, we redesigned one from the ground up, giving us true design freedom.
The Strap
We are using a new type of weave never seen before in a watch strap. The micro carbon fibre pattern is a delicate reflection of our GT style weave, but miniaturised to sit neatly on a wrist strap. The pattern its self is fused to a high quality top grain, chrome-tanned leather, making the straps extra supple for maximum comfort. After the carbon texture is applied, an additional coating reinforces the leather in a patented process which significantly improves the leathers abrasion resistance, allowing our carbon leather to be up to 200 times tougher than an untreated leather. The leather still retains its microporous structure, allowing the leather to breath naturally, adding to the comfort. Every aspect of this strap has been thought through to create an elegant and highly technical strap unlike any other.
